Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies

“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

Look closely and you’ll see that every part of the text is not quite right.

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

There were arses everywhere. Male and female arses alike, pale against the green paint of the metal fence that darkened with urine, or sticking out from behind swamped portaloos and food stalls, pissi...

‘Pretty devastating’ paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which systems match human intelligence

The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.

On the Manic Street Preachers.

Ideas about a future society won't in themselves bring us to a better future, but ideas can function as points of orientation for collective struggle. What should the communism we fight for look like?

Zionism and Dream Homes

Sam Bodrojan considers “Anora” and the emasculated sadism of Sean Baker.

Welcome to Doomscroll. I’m excited to announce episode #05 with guest Trevor Paglen. This program has had an amazing response so far. I’m glad we are able to bring these conversations to a new and wid...

They vow to cut two trillion dollars from the federal budget – five times the combined annual salaries of all federal...

Benjamin Noys reviews Fredric Jameson’s new essay collection, Inventions of a Present.

This essay for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue traverses arthouse cinema, Shein, and streaming to explore how the ‘technical image’ is changing the nature of meaning-making

Podcast Episode · The Verso Podcast · 28/11/2024 · 58m

The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

Brendan Boyle considers Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance.”

How politics destroyed contemporary art

Drafted as the foundational first chapter of Volume One, the last to be written, of Jameson’s monumental Poetics of Social Forms. A richly rewarding study of the Iliad, located within the ‘immense tra...

Does hegemony require a grand design?