The technological society… will not be a universal concentration camp, for it will be guilty of no atrocity. It will not seem insane, for everything will be ordered, and the stains of human passion will be lost amid the chromium gleam. We shall have nothing more to lose, and nothing to win. Our deepest instincts […]
Oleg Komlik
Bruno Latour — a passage and an observation that only he could make: The French, it is well known, love revolutions, political, scientific or philosophical. There is nothing they like more than a radical upheaval of the past, an upheaval so complete that a new tabula rasa is levelled, on which a new history can […]
“There is criticism to which one responds, other criticism to which one replies. Wrongly perhaps. Why not lend an equally attentive ear to incomprehension triviality, ignorance, or bad faith? Why reject these as so many incidents, regrettable for family honor? Is one correct in believing them inessential to the activity of criticism? I wonder if […]
Whoever keeps posting Karl Marx quotes on the breakroom bulliten board needs to stop.– Management Engage yourself with consequential reflections about labor and class struggle in the 21st century with these (not just thought but also action-provoking) five superb books: — Anderson, Elizabeth. 2023. Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers […]
Paul Armer was a pioneer in computing technology whose work focused on the relationship between computers and society. He began his career at RAND Corporation in 1947 and was later appointed to head its computer science department, a position he held for 10 years. In the late 1960s he moved to Stanford University, where he […]
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points. […] Perhaps we shall […]
For the past three weeks, the ES/PE community is aghast and dumbfounded. On the early morning of October 7th, a Jewish holiday, the Hamas terrorist organization launched a brutal and unprecedented attack in the south of Israel. During this planned, heinous massacre Hamas terrorists intentionally, systematically and viciously murdered more than 1400 innocent people, mainly […]
In 1836, a twenty-seven years old Charles Darwin, came back from a five-year, extraordinary survey expedition around the world. In 1839, he published a book that was later given a title The Voyage of the Beagle, bringing Darwin considerable fame and respect. The book was a vivid travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific […]
On November 4, 2008, Queen Elizabeth visited the London School of Economics for the opening of a new building. While there she was given an explanation on the origins and effects of the global financial crisis. At the end of briefing the Queen asked only one question: “Why did nobody notice it?” Professor of Economics […]
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731-1806), a renowned lawyer and then politician who served under four Prime Ministers as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years, has made an astute observation that still meaningfully resonates today: “Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, […]