Contact Tracing Apps: Should we embrace Surveillance?

‘Media show up wherever we humans face the unmanageable mortality of our material existence,’ wrote the philosopher John Peters Durham Continue reading →

Machine Communication

Contemporary communication puts us not only in conversation with one another but also with our machinery. Inspired by this drastic Continue reading →

On to the next one

To be continued: Graham and me wrote this book about the internet of things, in which we discuss artificial intelligence Continue reading →

Define: algorithm

At first glance, an algorithm is a step-by-step procedure for calculations, and as such a wonderfully boring predictable thing. As Continue reading →

Critique

How are we to intervene in contemporary constellations of capitalism and climate change? The role of critical theory today is Continue reading →

The swing to the right – is it social media’s fault?

These days, one can meet sentences at dinner parties which before carefully shielded themselves from view. In the West, a Continue reading →

New Art, New Audiences

Digital media is confusing contemporary art in many interesting ways from its aesthetics to its audiences and its institutional setting. While there Continue reading →

Can PDFs make you powerful?

meson.press, the open access project which we just founded, has a new book out exploring my favourite subject: algorithms and Continue reading →