Robots and Liberalism

An Imagined Community

All politics are identity politics.

Economic Personalities for Our Grandchildren

Hostess and the Limits of the Private Welfare State

The Disposition Matrix

Drone assassination is now the first resort of the state. Inside the CIA’s new dystopian novel.

Finishing the Civil War

Ecology, Technology, and Scale

The 3-D Printed Future and Its Enemies

First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Power

Introducing Saint Monday

I now have my very own blog, which I guess means I actually have to start blogging again. I’ll be back soon enough with my usual ramblings about work, robots, laziness, out-of-control intellectual property laws, and just giving people money, but in the meantime I thought I’d introduce the blog’s title.

Category Errors

Two Faces of Austerity

New Works and Anti-Works

The Politics of Getting a Life

Work in a capitalist society is a conflicted and contradictory phenomenon.

Manufacturing Stupidity

Capitalism Against Capitalists

The Problem With (Sex) Work

The Change Is Too Damn Fast

Technological Grotesques

My Bloggingheads Debut