techno-science

Mar 2021

…we should not take too seriously the portrayal of Biden as a leader deeply formed in the experience of grief…he is also a Cold War warrior, with a demonstrable inclination to pursue the Democrats’ hawkish orientation towards war where it encounters resistance.

Proboscises Unbound: The psychopathology of Silicon Valley

Arena Online

Mark Furlong

15 Apr 2021

…the acceleration of net worth enjoyed by the digital czars is unlike anything history has ever seen: Musk’s net worth increased by US$25 billion in a single day in March 2021.

The Limits of Control

Arena Quarterly no. 1

Timothy Erik Ström

Mar 2020

Compelled towards impossible dreams of infinite growth within finite nature, the cybernetic capitalist system is decidedly expansionist and colonial...

Antennas Aflame: Cybernetics, Conspiracies and 5G

Arena Quarterly no. 4

Timothy Erik Ström

Dec 2020

Much of mainstream liberal commentary on the 5G conspiracy consists of snide dismissals that blame credulous individuals for inaccurate beliefs. Yet, given how widespread the 5G conspiracies have become, it is not enough to dismiss them...

A High-Tech Pandemic?

Arena Quarterly no. 2

John Hinkson

Jul 2020

Amplified by the powers of high technologies, capitalist expansion has moved to a new level, recalibrating the borders between humans and the natural world and producing effects across species.

"The effects of the GFC continue to play out in the novel processes of globalisation…