the title, citing Wim Nusselder, is from comments on the video at Kate Raworth’s website.

I don’t want to be the one who lives here     but the alien I want to visit your beautiful country I don’t want to speak this tongue     but the alien I want to hear your beautiful language I don’t want to share the words used     to be

Reading Shaw’s article in the New York Review of Books I reach a point where the question seems to be begged. This is not the same as raising questions. Shaw raises questions around the ethics of dual-use research: research that has a potential military application as well as

Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n. 1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture

Walking  down the rumbling hot concrete of that fucked-up and noisy and utterly  dirty triangular block in Tacubaya, it was sometimes comforting to think  that the silent witch doctors’ cave  was oblivious to the future respectful whispers inside the  seventeenth-century shrine, and that the shrine knew nothing of