Michael Eby

Feb 27, 2024 | elsaltodiario.com | Michael Eby

Una de las muchas contradicciones presentes en el campo ideológico de Silicon Valley y de sus satélites es la que existe entre la fe en la descentralización y la seducción de estas empresas tecnológicas por el «liderazgo» empresarial. Identificar a las empresas por los apellidos de sus directivos –Altman en el caso de OpenAI, Ellison en el de Oracle, Zuckerberg en el de Meta– se ha convertido en jerga en el sector tecnológico.

Feb 23, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Michael Eby

One of the many contradictions within the ideological realm of Silicon Valley and its satellites is between a faith in decentralization and an infatuation with corporate ‘leadership’. Identifying companies by the surnames of their chief executives – Altman for OpenAI, Ellison for Oracle, Zuckerberg for Meta – has become industry parlance.

Oct 24, 2023 | thenation.com | Paul Franz |Maurice Isserman |Michael Eby |Mychal Denzel Smith

Books & the Arts / The Japanese novelist’s dark-hearted comedies are at once unhinged and brilliant. Ad PolicyWhere to begin the story? It’s tempting to start at the end—on the morning of Osamu Dazai’s 39th birthday, June 19, 1948, when his corpse was dredged from an irrigation canal outside Tokyo. Entangled with him was the body of Tomie Yamazaki, the war widow for whom he had abandoned his wife and children the year before.

Oct 23, 2023 | thenation.com | Michael Eby |Mohammed El-Kurd |Musa al-Gharbi |Mychal Denzel Smith

Economy / Books & the Arts / Firms like Blackstone have made investments in real estate, energy, and infrastructure to become the world’s most crooked landlords and bill collectors. Ad PolicyIt would be a mistake to dismiss the question “What is an asset?” as a trivial matter. To answer this question in the context of today’s inscrutable global marketplace, one must plunge into a complex realm of legal terminology, financial technology, and corporate strategy.

May 8, 2023 | screenslate.com | Michael Eby

Rainer Werner Fassbinder produced no grand masterwork. While several of his fellow travelers in the New German Cinema movement—namely Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander Kluge, and Werner Herzog—were sustaining an impressive output of one or two films per year throughout the 1970s, none could match the truly frenetic pace of Fassbinder, who was writing, directing, and sometimes acting in as many as four movies per year.