Everything in public life has already ceased to be narrative and no longer follows a thread, but instead spreads out as an infinitely interwoven surface. —Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, Chap. 122, “Going Home”
Competitive Cognitive Artifacts and the Demise of Humanity: A Philosophical Analysis
David Krakauer seems like an interesting guy. He is the president of the Santa Fe institute in New Mexico, a complexity scientist and ...
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?
This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB.
The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025
The obsolescence of man, vol I , part 2: The world as phantom and as matrix: philosophical considerations on radio and television - Günther Anders
The first complete English translation of a remarkable 1956 essay about television from Vol. I of The Obsolescence of Man by Günther Anders, who—using phenomenological analyses, excerpts from his diaries and reflections on daily life—depicts a capitalist world that manufactures a warped “mass-man” by imposing nonparticipation, consumption of images, artificial “needs” (“drug addiction is the model for today’s needs”), separation, “conditioning”, an eternal present, commodified leisure and the dissolution of the individual in vapid mass produced roles, in a text that in many ways anticipates the theory of the “spectacle” of Guy Debord and the situationists.
Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message (Published 2022)
How we look matters as much as what we see.
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess
This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB.
Don't let AI make you dumber - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Free Press column, here is one excerpt: I do not think the skeptics would put it this way, but as I read Conti, I find he has a pretty bleak fundamental view of humanity. Are we all really just looking to veg out and abandon curiosity and inquiry, […]
Why I'm Still Building Murmel
On competing without feature wars. When identity, trust, and story matter more than what's on your roadmap.
ATmosphere Report #147 - Year's end reflections - Connected Places
Some themes I'm watching for 2026: censorship resistance, the politics of interoperable spaces, and who gets to shape how atproto talks about itself.
Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon - December, 3 2025 | Notion
🗓️ Luma event description
After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction? - Public Books
Even in a world remade, the past defines the present.
Jonathan White on Twitter / X
New article of mine - 'Time and the Neo-Monarchist Turn', European Journal of Social Theoryhttps://t.co/DjewlLoGp3 pic.twitter.com/w4pS4vFmeE— Jonathan White (@JonathanPJWhite) September 15, 2026
The Times are Urgent: Let’s Slow Down • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe
An Open Letter to CONCORD-DEEEP, CIVICUS, GCAP, Civic Society Organizations and Activists Working for a ‘Better’ World. This article is co-authored by Bayo Akomolafe and Marta Benavides. With deep gratitude for the stories of transformation now emerging across the planet, and for the renewed hope we share for a different kind of world, we greet you from our hearts.
Preprints and Papers Come to Life at FORCE2026
The future of interactive preprints and papers were on display at the FORCE2026 conference in Singapore, and here I discuss what was presented and what the future of "living figures" might hold
