Cyberpunk emerged as both a literary movement and philosophical intervention in early 1980s America, crystallizing anxieties about technology, consciousness, and corporate power into a...
News in brief — 10 October 2025
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially declared the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura) extinct,...
The Age of Overwhelm
The feeling is now familiar, a low-grade hum of anxiety that accompanies the morning scroll. A headline announces another record-shattering heatwave,...
Introduction: The Coded Gaze and the Question of Equality
The story of modern algorithmic bias often begins with a simple, personal failure of technology. Joy...
Is a machine capable of independent consciousness, or is consciousness an exclusively biological phenomenon? This question has moved from science fiction into serious interdisciplinary...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often discussed in terms of data, algorithms, and logic – a thoroughly material domain. Yet the provocative statement “AI is...