The Power of Victimisation and Color in American politics. In an episode of “Black in Latin America”, a series on race aired on PBS on the 3rd of May 2011, Harvard Professor of Black Studies, Public Intellectual and television personality Louis Gates Jr. went on an intrepid exploration of race somewhere deep in the guts […]

If the academic production of ChatGPT is indistinguishable from academic work by students and scholars, it is because academia has become a ChatBot factory.  Academic administrators can look forward to the days when ChatGPT writes papers for student and then grades them for their instructor. Without any academic readers or writers involved, the quality of […]

(Micro Mega) Fra le tante esternazioni di Alessandro Orsini delle ultime settimane – qualcuna anche corretta – ce n’è una che ho trovato abominevole: quella pronunciata a inizio aprile, quando il professore ha affermato che “un bambino può essere felice anche in una dittatura”. Una frase che risuona da settimane nella mia testa, mentre i […]

With Darian Meacham (Open Democracy) Technology that can recognise the faces of enemy fighters is the latest thing to be deployed to the war theatre of Ukraine. This military use of artificial intelligence has all the markings of a further dystopian turn to what is already a brutal conflict. Read on Open Democracy

(Deutsche Welle) It is easy to lose sight of the manner in which the invasion of Ukraine has shifted from the supposed intention to neutralize military targets to the wholesale slaughter of civilians, the targeting of civil infrastructure and the desertification of the country. Read on Deutsche Welle.

The American Woke Machine and the Kremlin War (Jewish Journal with Monika Osbourne) It should come as no surprise that once progressive American social justice paradigms, brewed in the guts of academia and activism, weighed in on the conflict in Ukraine they quickly became instruments of the Kremlin’s agenda. For the American woke, Ukraine can […]

(Deutsche Welle) The crisis in Ukraine is threatening to become a new war at the gates of Europe. But the threat has yielded political dividends for the US as NATO’s supremacy is reasserted and Nord Stream 2 is on the verge of collapse. Read on Deutsche Welle.

(Deutsche Welle) Twenty years have passed since the Boston Globe report on the sexual abuse of children by members of the Boston Archdiocese of the Catholic Church. The time since has only lengthened the catalogue of horrors, with untold numbers of cases of children abused at the hands of the church across the globe. Read […]

Un manifesto in dieci punti. (Micro Mega) Le piattaforme di social media e gli strumenti di informazione digitale sono per l’Europa la cosa più vicina a una vera sfera pubblica, transnazionale e multilingue: la proverbiale agorà europea. Gli ormai quasi due anni di crisi sanitaria globale hanno notevolmente accelerato la migrazione delle nostre vite verso […]

(Open Democracy) Social media platforms and digital information tools are the closest thing that Europe has to a true, transnational, multilingual European public sphere: the proverbial European agora. The now almost two years of life in a global health crisis has greatly accelerated the migration of our lives to virtual environments, moving workers from European […]