On Starships and people: Can we rescue the liberatory potentials of technology?
On April 20th, 2023, SpaceX attempted the first integrated flight of its biggest rocket called Starship. SpaceX is a private American aerospace company that…
Read MoreOn April 20th, 2023, SpaceX attempted the first integrated flight of its biggest rocket called Starship. SpaceX is a private American aerospace company that…
Read MoreThere is a global push towards making AI more ethical and transparent. As critical contributions on the topic of AI have pointed out: even…
Read MoreThis post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute) and Ramah McKay (University of…
Read MoreThis piece explores how the indexical quality of Facebook livestreams and the particular claims they make to represent or manifest “reality” connect with long-standing…
Read MoreUsing blockchain as a thread, IBM Food Trust tries to stitch the wounds in the global, decentralised food supply chain. The creation of trust…
Read More“Less Trust, More Truth” said the black nylon drawstring bag in the cardboard box. I had to have one. No other item of swag…
Read MoreHow do globalised health regimes create and shape landscapes of medical regulation and patient safety? This essay asks about the many ways in which…
Read MoreTrust exposes and discloses the social. But the heterogeneity and even excessiveness of meaning in the concept—its overdetermination, its multifariousness and multiformity, its downright…
Read MoreThis essay considers the role of demonstration as a technique of trust at a wild animal sanctuary in Jordan. I suggest that demonstration is…
Read MorePART I Two Years Ago It was a hot day in July, and clocks were striking eight. It had been fifteen years since the…
Read MoreAll achievement is threatened by the machine, as long as it dares to take its place in the mind, instead of obeying. That…
Read MoreIn collaboration with the conference organisers, Allegra had reached out to a number of colleagues to submit some impressions in the form of “daily…
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