Author: adrielhampton
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Nebraska Strike Leader Running for U.S. Senate — A Bloomberg Interview with Dan Osborn
A political newcomer and union leader who tangled with one of North America’s largest food corporations – and won – is running for U.S. Senate as an independent, taking on a two-term Republican incumbent. Bloomberg News interviewed Nebraska’s Dan Osborn and offers insights into his motivations and policy priorities. Osborn, 48, told Bloomberg’s Work Shift…
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Real Democracy for California — Rise Up!
Rise Up California (“Levántate California”) is a new movement of working people from different races and backgrounds who want to create a better future for our state. Rise Up California believes that our state’s wealth and power should belong to the people who work hard every day, not the greedy tech billionaires who exploit us.…
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Writing a Bio with ChatGPT
One of the weirder features of popular large-language model chatbot ChatGPT is its tendency to make things up (some call this “hallucination” but it’s really just how it works!). Nowhere is this more apparent than when you ask it questions about yourself. I’m working on a new website, BiocharEntepreneur.com, as part of my focus on…
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Growth, Good and Bad
Guest Post Elon Musk isn’t the only one growing interest in a social media platform with a free-for-all, anything goes strategy. Rumble is a video licensing and sharing platform similar to YouTube but with fewer restrictions for content creators and marketed as a politically “neutral” platform. The site was launched in 2013 but has gotten…
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What Can We Learn from Kafka’s “Before the Law”?
Within Franz Kafka’s The Trial — a story about a person prosecuted by obscure elites for an unclear crime — there is a short parable called “Before the Law.” In this short story, a man wishes to gain entry “to the law,” which is in a gated community. A guard, or gatekeeper, tells the man…
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Eisenstein and Brecht: Political Ideology-Influenced Theater and Film
Marxism, the systems-philosophy based on the political economy of Karl Marx, holds that history is the sum of material class struggles – that a society’s material production and distribution shapes its culture and consciousness, and that “progress” is reflected in successive revolutions creating more egalitarian material (economic) and political systems. Not surprisingly, Marxist views of…
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The Difference Between Liberals, Progressives, and Leftists
Guest post There’s more to politics than ideological labels, and for most people, encapsulating the complexity and nuance of one’s political views with a single term may prove difficult. However, in a country where conservative politicians spout oxymoronic combinations — for example, when Senator Ron Johnson described Joe Biden as a “liberal, progressive, socialist” —…
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Cyber-As-Material-Battlefield, Political Communication and Imperialism
In April of 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic but in anticipation of a predictable phenomena, Christoph Laucht and Susan T. Jackson posted a great piece at the History and Policy website on the militarization of pandemic response rhetoric. They noted that “the dominant feature of the novel coronavirus pandemic is the many…
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Gods, Devils, and Today’s Political Rhetoric
There’s certainly been a lot of talk of god and devil in the midst of the castle-storming and descent-into-barbarism themes that have dominated national politics in 2021 so far. And even when “God” or “Satan” aren’t explicitly referenced by any of their many names, allusions to them abound. When thinking of politics and political communication,…
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Facial Recognition, Politics and Communication
The well-known microbiologist, experimental pathologist, and environmentalist René Dubos once wrote: “There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.” Recent discoveries that artificial intelligence can predict all kinds of characteristics of human…
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