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Whose freedom is it anyway?
In the summer of 1955, John McCarthy sat down to write a funding proposal. He wanted the Rockefeller Foundation to pay for a workshop at Dartmouth the following year, and the field he hoped the workshop would inaugurate did not yet have a name. The obviou
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The semiophage
Nobody remembers when the semiophage appeared. This is not because the records were lost, quite the opposite actually. The records are everywhere and plentiful. There are archives documenting archives, backups of backups, screenshots of conversations nobo
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Design was never the bottleneck
In Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel Solaris, a crew of scientists is stationed above an alien ocean that covers an entire planet. The ocean is vast, some sort of an entity that appears to be alive, and it is possibly intelligent (in the way that humans perceive
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Identity loss
Have you noticed, at some point in the last five years, a specific kind of professional vertigo? If you are lucky enough, your job title, deliverables, and even the pay, stayed the same. Yet something in the room shifted nevertheless. You could tell that
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Antinomies of design
2026 started off already with unprecedented events (typical characteristic of the polycrisis) but we will not be talking about these events. However, on a similar note, since it's a new year and people get to turn hopeful of reflective, I was taking a loo
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