The Information Environment
The Collapse of the Fourth Estate
On the broadcast compact, the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and how the press transformed from guardian of accountability into a commodity for sale
The Information Environment
The Information Environment
The Algorithm Is Bernays
On how Edward Bernays's techniques for manufacturing consent evolved into algorithmic systems that commodify human attention and fragment collective reality
The Information Environment
The Attention Merchants
On how human attention became a commodity in the 1830s and why each technological escalation in its capture has escaped the reform movements meant to contain it
The Information Environment
Surveillance Capitalism
On how capitalism has shifted from extracting labor to extracting behavior, and why human interiority itself becomes the raw material for profit
The Information Environment
The Epistemic Crisis
On the collapse of shared epistemic ground, how it became structural rather than accidental, and why perceiving reality truthfully is now a political necessity