Dusting Off Our Mirror-Shades: On Matthew Ball’s “The Metaverse”
Paul Dicken reviews Matthew Ball's new book, "The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything."
Paul Dicken reviews Matthew Ball's new book, "The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything."
Paul DickenJul 19, 2022
Evan Selinger has reservations about the metaverse.
Evan SelingerJul 19, 2022
Joshua Roebke talks with Joseph Osmundson about his new book, "Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between."
Joshua RoebkeJul 14, 2022
Julien Crockett speaks to Mary F. E. Ebeling, author of “Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance.”
Julien CrockettJul 14, 2022
Rebecca Altman appreciates Elena Conis’s new book, “How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT.”
Rebecca AltmanJun 17, 2022
DESPERATE REMEDIES, subtitled “Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness,” is a depressing book. Its author, Andrew Scull, is a prominent...
Mikkel Borch-JacobsenJun 6, 2022
Justin E. H. Smith’s new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” shows how the human dream of telecommunication has been twisted into a...
Joshua Judd PorterMay 22, 2022
A tribute for a man who wanted to treat health as a human right.
Sophie CousinsMay 17, 2022
A young doctor ponders oncology’s latest dilemma: uncertainty rooted in variation.
Bobak ParangMay 11, 2022
Robert Gorwa reads Jillian York’s “Silicon Values” on digital content moderation in the context of the Ukrainian War.
Robert GorwaMay 6, 2022
Evan Selinger lauds David Lyon’s “Pandemic Surveillance” while quibbling with its lack of grounded analysis.
Evan SelingerApr 30, 2022
Mathias Thaler argues that utopian thinking has a role to play in addressing the climate crises.
Mathias ThalerApr 24, 2022
Meredith Reiches lauds Sarah Richardson’s “The Maternal Imprint.”
Meredith ReichesApr 17, 2022
Michael Bycroft addresses the latest scholarly rows about where science originated.
Michael BycroftMar 27, 2022
The “dunescourse” — or “sietchposting,” as it is affectionately called — is vast.
Haris A. DurraniMar 27, 2022
How the history of eugenics informs "Dune."
Ayah NuriddinMar 27, 2022
The power of Dune, of its Fremen, is rooted in the prophecy.
Ahmed RagabMar 27, 2022
"Dune" itself is a work of ethnography — a gateway into a new world.
Taylor M. MooreMar 27, 2022
The question of “peak oil” or “peak spice" has always been a proxy for a paramount existential concern: whether we control anything at all.
Christopher DietrichMar 27, 2022
Omnia El Shakry on the dream world of "Dune."
Omnia El ShakryMar 27, 2022
In the "Dune" universe, despite their ostensible absence, the computers and artificial intelligences of Herbert’s time are palpably present.
Stephanie DickMar 27, 2022
"Dune" marked a moment when this approach to experimental drugs entered pop culture.
Benjamin BreenMar 27, 2022
What to make of Dr. Wellington Yueh?
Nitin K. AhujaMar 27, 2022
Julien Crockett talks with Justin E. H. Smith about his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is.”
Julien CrockettMar 22, 2022