I’m teaching two classes at UMass Amherst this spring. One is the latest incarnation of my “Fixing Social Media” class, which I launched late in… Read More »“Where Should We Live” – a new class on cities, migration and climate change
When people talk about the beauty of the early web – before the Internet was “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of… Read More »Listening to All the Music
Ny friend Joachim Wiewiura invited me to give the inaugural talk at the Center for the Philosophy of AI (CPAI) at the University of Copenhagen… Read More »Gramsci’s Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony
I’m at BU today for a conference hosted by MISI – the Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact at BU, a new center led… Read More »How do we communicate about climate without shaming audiences?
Gary Marcus, professor emeritus on psychology and neuroscience at NYU, closes the Govern or be Governed conference in conversation with Murad Hemmadi. Hemmadi begins by… Read More »Govern or Be Governed: Gary Marcus on Shorting Neural Networks
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, blogger and activist, who is the very best form of troublemaker. He’s got a new book out on… Read More »Cory Doctorow on the weird upside of the Trump presidency