The demand for AI's unbridled growth is reactionary — a way of doubling down on the same old colonizing way of doing things. It doesn't have to be.

Death of a Fantastic Machine (aka the camera) is a short documentary on “what happens when humanity’s infatuation with itself and an untethered free market meet 45 billion cameras”…and now AI. It’s about how — since nearly

To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.

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As artificial intelligence begins to fundamentally alter the way normal people live their lives, it’s often talked about in terms of boom and doom, which makes a nuanced examination difficult. The problem with…

The missing piece in our urbanist discussion.

As if summoned from every woman’s worst nightmare, here comes an ad for a company that helps men cheat on dates by lying about everything from their interests to their age. The fictional dating profile claims to be 6’4” and work at “Bananazon.” “Maybe you…

Opinion | Instead of trying to extend the lives of a privileged few, we should invest in improving the lives of all people today.

What I am doing to prevent myself from stagnating and rotting.

乔迪·迪恩（Jodi Dean），美国政治理论家，纽约州霍巴特和威廉史密斯学院（Hobart and William Smith Colleges）政治学系教授，已出版十本专著。今年5月31日至6月1日，第二届“马克思主义与数字资本主义批判”国际学术研讨会在南京大学举行，由南京大学马克思主义社会理论研究中心、南京大学哲学学院、南京大学国际马克思主义研究院联合主办。会议期间，迪恩教授接受了《上海书评》的专访，围绕其新著详细阐述了她关于当代资本主义向新封建主义演变的一系列观点。

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

Watch Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swOqwhcEtDc

The obsession with self-improvement isn’t just a personal journey — it’s a consequence of the economic system we live under: Neoliberalism.

From hustle culture to self-help podcasts — I break down…

“自由市场”在现代经济中占据了核心地位，它不仅仅是一种经济运行模式，更是一种与个人自由、效率和创新紧密相连的社会哲学。然而，它的起源和演变历程是怎样的？ “揭示思想之源的发现最令人不安。”南加州大学教授雅各布·索尔的《自由市场之梦》一书的开篇引用了阿克顿勋爵的箴言。从西塞罗的贵族道德到柯尔贝尔的国家创造市场，从荷兰东印度公司的股票市场到弗里德曼的芝加哥学派，作者以知识考古学般的精细和祛魅式的叙事，梳理和呈现了两千年经济思想史， “挖掘深藏于现代思维习惯中的、未经检验的古老假设和信仰体系”，为读者解构了新…

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Recently, “the bitter lesson” is having a moment. Coined in an essay by Rich Sutton, the bitter lesson is that, “general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.” Why is the lesson bitter? Sutton writes:

I’m Andres Acevedo, and this is The Market Exit. In this essay, I explore a big idea from historian and author Rutger Bregman: moral ambition.

Most of us want to do something meaningful with our lives. But too often, talented people end up in jobs they secretly…

Photo by Albert Vincent Wu on Unsplash Minimalism - the aesthetic that stems from the idea of “less is more”- has the contemporary world in a chokehold with its supposed emphasis on elegance, clarity, and functionality. Almost all aspects of modern life including…