What used to be a meandering journey is now an immediate arrival at your destination.

Disability, shame, and the hidden violence of a culture that equates productivity with value

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 8

Every technological cycle is a cycle of power. The promise of empowerment is part of how the cycle works.

No.408 — Futures studies as a mosaic 2 ⊗ Digital Colonialism ⊗ How the Squamish built Senakw ⊗ Extreme dynamic symmetry

What I’m about to say is going to seem like a bad joke: the trouble with the left is its egalitarianism.

Symbolic struggles cannot be a force of resistance to the Trump administration.

How everything became trauma

The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycrisis of climate chaos, mass migration, increasing warfare an...

AI promises to help us find common ground. But democracy was never meant to resolve our disagreements.

AI promises to help us find common ground. But democracy was never meant to resolve our disagreements.

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Remote and hybrid work can have benefits, but a study involving more than 588,000 people suggest they may take a serious mental toll

The US’s global hegemony has ended. The post–Cold War unipolar moment is giving way to a multipolar order that, Bessner argues, will now be pyramidal in structure: dominated by the…

"Every woman I know performs some version of this – not just to stay employed, but to stay alive."

Simons challenges the dominant story of AI-driven efficiency, arguing that the intelligence powering today’s systems is built from accumulated human interaction. As organizations automate work and off...