The Drone of Minerva

The one kind of speculative thought that might be of service in the Anthropocene is surely some kind of philosophy of history, and yet within the academy itself it seems the one nobody wants to actually attempt. It is as if the debates at the end of the last century ...
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The Drone of Minerva

William Gibson’s The Peripheral

The new Gibson novel seems to me to be about three things: space, time and class. In classic Gibsonesque style, it threads together stories that begin in two different places. One is the kind of landscape I recognize from spending time in upstate New York. A rural, mostly working class, mostly ...
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William Gibson’s The Peripheral