Mutant: Dialogues at the End of Democracy

It is undeniable that technology has disrupted democracy, that algorithms have begun to threaten human agency and deform identity, and that artificial intelligence, deeply...

When we began Mutant, we set ourselves the task of entering ordinary language. Not the magisterial or prophetic, but words, ideas and concepts so...

Has America given up its “pursuit of happiness”? Why do we ask so many questions? "How does it feel to be a problem?" Du...

Watching the scale, speed, and lawless ease with which some of the most storied postwar American institutions have been attacked and dismantled in the...

Few words in our democratic language invoke visions as paradoxical and as powerful as sacrifice. On the one hand, sacrifice recalls an archaic, ritualistic,...

We have so far traversed almost two dozen concepts at Mutant. And yet every word thought and spoken in these dialogues, it might be...