‘tell-it-to-the-judge,-roberts’

The The Traitor era outpaces expectations. It routinely shows us that we can be abandoned by more institutions, and become much more fascist, much faster than we thought. The worst things happening for the worst reasons can feel hacky in fiction, but never in these United States. Yesterday’s scoffingly farcicalContinue Reading

palantir-just-unmasked-itself-to-the-world

The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies last week is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has abandoned its claim to neutrality and decided to unmask itself, revealingContinue Reading

“f*ck-the-queen!”:-tourette’s-as-british-melodrama

At the recent British Academy Film Awards ceremony in London, the BBC failed to edit out of the TV broadcast a guest hurling a racial slur at members of the cast of “Sinners.” What seemed a cut-and-dry case of racism was actually something more. The alleged racist in question wasContinue Reading