SILICONPHILOSOPHYSILICONPHILOSOPHYThree ongoing threads. An essay joins one when it extends an existing argument rather than opening a new one. For everything in publication order, see Essays.
How science fiction has imagined artificial intelligence across four decades — and what that imagination reveals about us.
How the engineering worldview — optimisation, solutionism, scale as virtue — has colonised every domain of modern life. New instalment every 3–4 weeks.
Polemical essays holding the left accountable. Each long-form piece is followed the next week by a standalone aphorism card drawn from it.