Envisage it: a world populated by dogs and dinosaurs; hominids and extraterrestrials; mamoths and butterflies; and all of us humans of course.
That’s our new world, the one we (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.
Is man kind?
Is man kind?
The news of Cecil's slaying came as I was standing at a bus stop on Columbus, skimming Twitter on my phone. “Go wild in New York” said the ad displayed on (more…)
#ThisIsNotACoup
#ThisIsACoup was, last night, the most trending hashtag on Twitter. “Greeks Face 'Humiliating,' Anti-Democratic Austerity Demands from the Troika” was how Twitter explained (more…)
The Twitter Trojan War
On the fourth of July 2004, long after midnight, all over Greece, millions of ecstatic people were spilling into the streets. All were draped in Greek flags, faces painted with the national blue and (more…)
Gods abandoning Greece
The Gods Abandon Greece
“When suddenly, at midnight, you hear/an invisible procession going by/…don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,/work gone wrong, your (more…)