Pre-Digestion of the Status Quo: A Review of 'Why We Fear AI'
Nicolas D Villarreal, May 28, 2025
Nico D Villarreal reviews Why We Fear AI, a new book by Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer, and argues that, although the work has merits, the authors' heavy reliance on well trodden ideas from the left of academia precludes a broader critical discussion of AI. Read Article.
On Bird-Brained Readings of Althusser: A Response to P.K. Gandakin and Scottie O.
Nicolas D Villarreal, February 26, 2025
Nicolas D Villarreal takes issue with the interpretation of Althusser found in two articles recently featured in Geese Magazine, arguing that authors P.K. Gandakin and Scottie O. exhibit the very humanism and historicism Althusser opposed. Read Article.
What Is Materialism?
Nicolas D Villarreal, July 19, 2024
Nicolas D Villarreal gives depth and meaning to an often fraught concept with ample currency in contemporary left-wing circles: materialism. Read Article.
Artificial Intelligence, Universal Machines, and Killing Bourgeois Dreams
Nicolas D Villarreal, May 10, 2023
Nicolas D Villarreal tackles the question of artificial intelligence from a Marxist perspective, arguing against both utopian and dystopian prophecies regarding the emergence of these new technologies. Read Article.
The Dawn of Social Evolution
Nicolas D Villarreal, March 6, 2022
Nicolas D Villarreal reviews David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything and outlines a theory of social evolution that answers the book's objections to such theories. Read Article.