Anxiety as Socialism: AI Moratorium Fantasies
Rumours and streaks of hysteria are running rife about what such artificial intelligence (AI) systems as ChatGPT are meant to do. Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Blood, Golf and Saudi Arabia: The LIV Tournament in Adelaide
The recently concluded LIV Tournament in Adelaide was a matter of bread, circuses and golf. It was something of a triumph for the chief sponsor: […]
Barry Humphries: Misunderstood Anarchist of Culture
He was always a step ahead, his mind geared not only for the next move, but the next sequence. He also smelt it, anticipated the […]
Libelled by the Bot: Reputation, Defamation and AI
Cometh the new platform, cometh new actions in law, the fragile litigant ever ready to dash off a writ to those with (preferably) deep pockets. […]
Penny Wong’s World View: AUKUS All The Way
If anyone was expecting a new tilt, a shine of novelty, a flash of independence from Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s address to the National […]
A Road Paved with Irritations: Macron’s Strategic Third Way
Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to China did not quite go according to plan, though much depends on what was planned to begin with. In one […]
The Leaking Republic: The Pentagon’s Take on Information Security
For years, US intelligence officials could hold their allies, notably the British, in contempt for leaking like sinking vessels and harbouring such espionage luminaries as […]
EO: Three Hooves up in High Heaven
Films featuring animals as screen filled protagonists, often in an imperfect, callous human world, have been made before. There was Robert Bresson’s 1966 Au Hasard […]
Universities and the AUKUS Military-Industrial Complex
Here they go. Vice-chancellors, university managers, and creatures with titles unmentionable and meaningless (deputies, semi-deputies, sub-deputies), a whole cavalcade of parasitic creatures in need of […]
Calculated Misrepresentations: The US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Succeeding administrations have a chronic habit of blaming their predecessors. The Biden administration has been most particular on the issue, taking every chance to attack […]
A Matter of Personal Hospitality: Buying the US Supreme Court
What is going to be done with Clarence Thomas, that darling reactionary among reactionaries on the US Supreme Court? Evidently, the justice seems to assume […]
Disaster in Aston: Peter Dutton’s Fossilised Politics
In politics, the once in century tag is virtually unheard of. Miracles can take place in a matter of weeks if not months, but there […]
Executive Donkeys and War Powers Reform
The decision to go to war should be as burdensome as possible. The more impediments to such folly, the better. Such a state of affairs […]
Turning Tides: The US Congress and Julian Assange
“Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” (I.F. Stone). The US Congress and Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, […]
Sparing the Athletes: Revising the Russia-Belarus Sporting Ban
Collateral damage? Deserving and worthy of their punishment? The exclusion and banishment of Russian and Belarusian athletes has become the acceptable prejudice of many governments […]