The Self-Absorbed Bubble of Managerialism
Jonathan D. Teubner
The rot in our technology culture is managerialism, which is to say the belief that a business can be abstracted into its financial components, each of which is subject to principles of scientific management.
The Word Made Lifeless
Talbot Brewer
The development of AI reads less like a familiar chapter from the history of consumer capitalism and more like the storyboard of a Bond film in which we’ve all been cast as extras.
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Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Shame, and “Those” Monuments
James McWilliams
The image moved me: Robert E. Lee, that icon of the Confederacy, whose likeness in bronze once towered several stories over New Orleans, was, after 132 years, gone, relegated (for now) to municipal storage.
The Age of the Average
Olivier Zunz
How did we reach the age of the average, and what did it mean for American democracy?
Principled to a Fault
Becca Rothfeld
On the face of it, Simone Weil is a remarkably poor candidate for domestication.
Hipster Elegies
Greg Jackson
The death and life of the great American hipster offers an alternative history of culture over the last quarter century.