Citizens of the Cognisphere

As we prepare a new generation of students for the computational regime (Brueck, 2016) we need to make room for cultural examination and critical reflection—not just to transcribe a liberal arts agenda in "an obligation to develop their abilities to think and live," (Deresiewicz, 2015) —but also to re-instill astonishment and ...
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The Stack to Come

On Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack

What I like most about Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2015) is firstly its close attention to what I would call the forces and relations of production. We really need to know how the world is made right now if it is ever to be ...
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The Stack to Come