Making Social Networks Antisocial
The more information you know about people, the more you can manipulate them. You can foment conflict all over the place. That’s really dangerous.
Making Social Networks Antisocial Read More »
TOXICOLOGY: lethal forces
The poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves … categorized according to Graeber and Wengrow’s three basic forms of domination. See our About page for more info.
Syria is the World, the World is Syria
No one in the whole world, except a few people here and there, acknowledge that this is a genocide of the Holocaust type. Why not? Because no one is willing to see the Nazi when he looks in the mirror.
Syria is the World, the World is Syria Read More »
War Stories: Art, Propaganda, and the Memory Industrial Complex
“Memories are not simply images we experience as individuals but mass-produced fantasies we share with one another.”
War Stories: Art, Propaganda, and the Memory Industrial Complex Read More »
Globalists Versus Chauvinists
So, which kind of authoritarian capitalism do you prefer?
Globalists Versus Chauvinists Read More »
Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
Psychometrics and the (counter)revolution in marketing that is helping bring fascism to power around the world
Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself Read More »
Trump, Brexit, Temer
Just as Trump’s election has validated all kinds of hate rhetoric in the United States, the removal of the PT government has validated all kinds of hate rhetoric in Brazil as well.
Trump, Brexit, Temer Read More »
Death to Debt Culture!
Debt is a shared condition; it is probably the defining feature of American economic life today. We’ve been talking a lot about divisions between college educated and not, between middle class or professional workers and working class folks. Debt allows us to stop seeing those divisions.
Death to Debt Culture! Read More »
The Neoliberal “Common Sense” of Racist Police Violence
We have to understand the violence of policing within a long continuum of ongoing, foundational, colonial, imperial, racist violence that produces the US political economy.
The Neoliberal “Common Sense” of Racist Police Violence Read More »
Manipulating Everything and Everyone
“Is this an ad or is it an article?”
Manipulating Everything and Everyone Read More »