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Economy
Is Open Source AI a sham?
Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices
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Technology
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Philosophy
The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
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We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
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Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer
The next step into the era of spatial computing
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Culture
Another piece on Barbenheimer
On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer
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Philosophy
Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover
Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological
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Society
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Health
Pills, pills, pills
Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises
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Economy
The short-lived revival of Keynes; welcome back, Hayek!
Has neoliberalism really left? Or was “COVID-Keynesianism” nothing more than a short-term crisis management tactic?
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A new dawn for nationalist parties?
For many, the brutal geopolitical awakening caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China threatening to invade Taiwan means freedom is back on the political agenda...
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Vibegeist: rave until the grave
The revival of rave and rage in the roaring twenties.
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Philosophy
To cyberspace and beyond
How the cyborg movies of the ‘90s made us fantasize about mind uploading, sentient AI and immortality.
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How will the metaverse and web3 influence social media?
Brace yourself, the 2D newsfeeds gracing our screens might soon be part of internet history.
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The fragmentation of social media
When Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are starting to revolt, you know Instagram is getting into trouble...
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The early days of cyberpunk
As man becomes machine and machine becomes man.
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From labor to exploitation: the dark side of blockchain games
What does it take to create a flourishing virtual economy?
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Resurrecting the dead in the digital era
Will deepfake videos, the latest and most versatile medium to eternalize the dead, impel us to regulate digital immortality?
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Politics should focus more on the Good Life
How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?
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An introduction to the Stack
Learn more about our framework that helps us understand the anatomy of digital systems.
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A beginner's guide to the metaverse
Both praised and feared by many, the 'promises' of the metaverse are highly contentious. Sebastiaan Crul aims to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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Dominating the first TikTok war
How the selfie-president and TikTok videos are helping Ukraine dominate social media
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How the cyborg deconstructed the modern worldview
The evolution of the cyborg in science and popular culture
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Will the metaverse be a “pornoverse”?
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The ‘Wechselstimmung’ after Merkel
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Climate litigation and civil society
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How to deal with the medical uncertainty of Long COVID?
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Media
Winter is ending
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12
-minute read
Is Open Source AI a sham?
Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices
12
-minute read
The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
8
-minute read
We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
13
-minute read
The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
10
-minute read
The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
10
-minute read
The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
6
-minute read
The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
15
-minute read
Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer
The next step into the era of spatial computing
12
-minute read
Another piece on Barbenheimer
On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer
15
-minute read
Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover
Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological
Next >
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