Tag: Academia

  • The Dizziness of Freedom

    One day, I noticed a volume of Kierkegaard writings in the lab breakroom.  It was sitting there between hardcovers that generations of well-intentioned people had left to dust in their uselessness, framed between a Matlab cookbook from the 2000’s and a massive Campbell Biology. As a good book hoarder, I decided to keep it (some…

  • Institutional Surveillance

    Due to the recent outbreak, legitimate concern is being expressed in various media about technological surveillance. Are governments going to monitor our displacements through new apps to get extensive data for epidemiologic studies? How many companies are going to implement surveillance to watch their employees that have been doing remote work for the last weeks?…