technology

Transhumanism is terror management theory funded by venture capital, and it is telling on itself.

Smart apartment tech is marketed as convenience for tenants and works as surveillance for landlords.

You bought it but you don't own it. Repair restrictions aren't a consumer inconvenience; they're a property rights crisis.

The debate about AI art focuses on output quality. That misses the point entirely.

The entire internet runs on software maintained by exhausted volunteers. That's not a feature; it's a crisis.

We turned our bodies into dashboards and our lives into optimization problems. The numbers aren't setting us free.

The 'attention economy' metaphor gets it wrong, and the error isn't academic.

You don't own your digital life. You rent it from lords who can evict you at will. This isn't metaphor - it's the actual structure of digital property relations.

Technology embeds politics. The design is the ideology. There are no mere instruments - every tool shapes what's possible and what's thinkable.

Running your own infrastructure isn't just for nerds. It's a form of resistance against platform dependence. Digital autonomy requires material control.

You don't choose what you see. Systems choose for you, optimizing for engagement, not understanding. Culture is increasingly machine-curated.

Infinite scroll isn't a feature. It's an extraction mechanism. The feed format itself, not just the content, is designed against human flourishing.

From feminist revolutionary to 'hyper-racism' advocate: Land's trajectory shows how theoretical transgression can slide into genuine political extremism. His innovations don't excuse what he became.

From the camera obscura controversy to AI lawsuits in 2025, each wave of technological disruption has forced artists to confront what is irreplaceably human about creative expression.