Metal Machine Music by Ben Tarnoff

The technologies of all dead generations

A couple days ago, I keynoted a conference at Penn’s Annenberg School organized by David Elliot Berman, Victor Pickard, and Briar Smith.

Apr 9, 2023 • 

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November 2021

The metaverse is a cubicle

Office Space by way of The Matrix.

Nov 30, 2021 • 

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January 2020

The old gods are dead

2020’s first installment of Metal Machine Music will be a little thin, I’m afraid.

Jan 14, 2020 • 

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December 2019

Discipline at a distance

Welcome to your next installment of Metal Machine Music.

Dec 4, 2019 • 

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November 2019

Platforms don't exist

This week’s newsletter is a little unusual.

Nov 22, 2019 • 

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Cloud fortress

This week’s Metal Machine Music is about:

Nov 15, 2019 • 

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The dead are at our backs

Welcome to this week’s edition of Metal Machine Music.

Nov 7, 2019 • 

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October 2019

A Halloween fright fest

This week I’m mostly thinking about AI ethics and algorithmic warfare.

Oct 31, 2019 • 

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Machine learnings

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Metal Machine Music.

Oct 25, 2019 • 

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Hello world

Welcome to Metal Machine Music, a newsletter offering left-wing perspectives on tech. I took the title from Lou Reed’s 1975 drone-metal album of the…

Oct 25, 2019 • 

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