Omnivore
Killing with drones
Marko Kovic (ZIPAR): The Strategic Paradox of Autonomous Weapons. From Filozofija i drustvo, Meisels Tamar (Tel Aviv): Targeted Killing with Drones? Old Arguments, New Technologies; and Srdan T. Korac (Belgrade): Depersonalisation of Killing: Towards a 21st Century Use of Force “Beyond Good and Evil?” The wounds of the drone warrior: Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized — could their injuries be moral ones? Avengers in wrath: Dave Blair and Karen
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Paper Trail
Being Mortal author Atul Gawande has been named CEO of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase’s joint healthcare initiative. “I have devoted my public health career to building scalable solutions for better healthcare delivery that are saving lives, reducing suffering, and eliminating wasteful spending both in the US and across the world,” Gawande said in …Syllabi
The Roots of the Alt-right
Mike WendlingDuring the last presidential election cycle, you may have read reports describing the alt-right—a loosely organized group of anti-PC, anti-feminist, race-obsessed online warriors—as a strange, newly …- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
- "We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit Matt Turner
Daily Review
You Say You Want an Evolution
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big hit and ended up the highest-grossing film of 1968. It was especially popular with acidheads and pot smokers, science geeks, budding filmmakers, and people under forty in general. The critics in New York, however, all hated it (except for Penelope Gilliatt in the New Yorker), and it had not done well in preview screenings with studio execs and celebrities, who found it boring and confusing. Those preview screenings and early reviews have become part of the film’s legend. People love to remember how the snobs got it wrong. … - Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
by Dorthe Nors
Interviews
Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour’s memoir, Sick, is a deeply powerful and harrowing odyssey through the most profound mysteries of mind and body, as Khakpour explores the roots of a chronic illness that has no clear beginning or end.
…- At some point after 1986, when he arrived in the United States, Amitava Kumar discovered …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- In one sense, Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country picks up where his first novel, All …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- SOON AFTER MUHAMMAD ALI posed as a martyr, the country got a real one. The Reverend …
- A grim turn of events briefly overtook the barely modulated insanity of our past …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
Reviews
Excerpt
Excess—The Factory
Leslie Kaplan
Below is an excerpt from Leslie Kaplan's 1982 fiction of the French factory revolts. For more on the book, recently released in an English edition (translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap), see Jason E. Smith's review in our special summer issue, 1968 Now.
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