I’m told a rock band is at its best when it’s a little transgressive: when it pushes the bounds of so-called good taste, when it shocks, when it surprises. Well, U2 is kicking off its tour in Berlin ...

Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance ...

A new social logic is taking shape: It’s all about surveillance. The individual is used as a mere provider of data. It’s time to break the arrogance of Silicon Valley.

It knows how to talk about tools but is barely capable of talking about social, political, and economic systems that these tools enable and disable, amplify and pacify. Why the “digital debate” leads ...

The history of statehood on the territory of Ukraine begins with two archetypically European encounters. Medieval statehood on the territory of today’s Ukraine, like that of France and England, ...

There is a fundamental problem with how we build AI systems. AI needs to change direction.

Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde? The military and the IT sphere already affiliated, as you may see in the person of one of the most powerful men of the world: Keith Alexander, Director of the NSA, ...

Twenty Israeli hostages — freed alive from Hamas captivity. British psychologist Sarah Whittaker works with survivors of torture and abduction worldwide. Here, she explains how to bring people back ...

As Vladimir Putin revives the tradition of wars of aggression on European territory, the Russian past has be adjusted - in speaking of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact as good foreign policy. Quelle: F.A.Z ...