It is on a bitterly cold morning, day of the New York City marathon, that my mother starts coughing up blood. She has stoically endured breathing problems ever since she got COPD, but this is different.
It (more…)
Author: Amalia Negreponti
Amalia Negreponti has worked for years as a journalist and critic for outlets including the BBC, La Règle du Jeu, Medium, HuffPost, Ta Nea, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Originally from Athens, she emigrated to the US in 2013 and now lives in New York as a writer, researcher and strategist. She also red-teams neural networks and writes about consciousness, memory and the genesis of emotion. She is the recipient of a Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a fellowship from the French Foreign Ministry, and has participated in various policy fora about AI, national security and culture, organized by The Aspen Institute, the AJC’s Project Interchange, and Lighthaven.
Class as Destiny
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GRAHAM SWIFT’S NEW BOOK, Mothering Sunday: A Romance, is simultaneously timely and timelessly subversive and provocative. The novella’s plot (more…)
FICTION: SEA FALL
On a tiny island in the middle of the Aegean, the timeless Greek-German enmity and connection assumes another dimension.
Prometheus dove into the sea with surprising impetus. Fearlessly and (more…)
The Alpha and Omega
Power equals money, and vice versa, used to be a straightforward equation. No longer. The new digital cosmos has made this a very relative concept, transforming what were once purely mercantile products (more…)
Killing people and robots
Is man kind? No. Yes. Some people, sometimes—though I’d be hard pressed to offer any names.
AirBnB’s provocative new ad launched this summer, raised the issue, insisting (more…)