Opal Lee is a writer.
Emmanuel Macron has sparked protests after appointing an education minister who sent her own children to private school. France’s school system has never delivered real equality — but as the rich flock to the private sector, it’s only getting worse.
The UAW has plans to organize more than 150,000 autoworkers in 2024.
For 19th-century Americans, robots were practical Christians, potential spouses, and a serious threat to labor power.
Germany is Israel’s ride-or-die.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Argentina was one of the world’s 10 wealthiest countries by per capita income. As of 2021, it’s 86th. What happened?
Automation is booming in rural China, the strongholds of the US auto industry, and the world’s oldest countries.
Hollywood AI boosters claim that “democratized” movies based on personal choice await us, if only we can get rid of those pesky human beings.
When chatbots take over the world, might they do it as members of a vanguard party?
As automation ravaged Detroit, black musicians created a new sound that merged human and machine. With it came a vision for working-class self-organization in the Motor City.
The English science-fiction writer J. G. Ballard claimed to believe in nothing. Yet his prophetic dystopias reveal a deep awareness of the brutality of class rule and imperialism.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek talking to each other — forever.
Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has a dream: a futuristic desert city stretching to the clouds. But down in the sand, it’s a cyberpunk dystopia.
How to speak machine overlord.
AI might take some administrative jobs and cheapen cultural production. What it won’t do is help us care for each other in an age of demographic change and institutionalized neglect.
Two takes on our rapidly aging “Aging” issue.
At the next Jacobin party, we’ll all dance on Henry Kissinger’s grave.
Keeping hope alive at New York Comic Con — kind of.
With the development of artificial intelligence racing forward at warp speed, some of the richest men in the world may be deciding the fate of humanity right now.
At the heart of the US-Japanese franchise Transformers is a tension between visions of robotics as liberation and as enslavement.