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We are the products of technological mediation

What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI

The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)

When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent

The robots among us

About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots

The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?

Understanding the role of machines in society

The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse

About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals

Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer

The next step into the era of spatial computing

Another piece on Barbenheimer

On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer

Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover

Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises

The short-lived revival of Keynes; welcome back, Hayek!

Has neoliberalism really left? Or was “COVID-Keynesianism” nothing more than a short-term crisis management tactic?