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The Collapse: Who Answers for the Machine?
A story about what happens when a profession figures out that the thing its clients were paying for — the reading, the drafting, the hours — never actually required a person, but the thing they were really paying for still does: someone to carry the can.
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Empire: The Tax That Became Rent
In which we examine the political economy of why pre-modern empires ended.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 4
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Machinery of Legitimation III
How the machinery of legitimation is unravelling in the two most important democracies: the US and India.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 3
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 2
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 1
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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Lynn Nottage: Political Economy Hidden in Plain Sight
The playwright Lynn Nottage. Political economy as drama crafted from reality.
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The Collapse: The Influencer Economy Automates Itself
A story about what happens when a business figures out that the thing it was paying for — attention, trust, a face people feel they know — never actually required a person attached to it.
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The Ideal Is Not in the Head
The demonstration of what is at stake when thought loses its friction with reality and becomes a closed loop of self-confirming categories.
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