Academic summers always start with a plan. This is the summer I’m going to start three new lines of research, writing key bits of code… Read More »The Eyes Have Had It: A (Mental) Health Update from the Summer of Sue
I write a monthly column for Prospect Magazine in the UK, covering the social implications of information technology. This month’s column is about how AI… Read More »Recent Writing, as of March 2026
Howard French is one of the leading journalists and thinkers about Africa’s role in the world, and the attention the world does and doesn’t pay… Read More »Howard French: The Second Emancipation
I’m teaching two classes at UMass Amherst this spring. One is the latest incarnation of my “Fixing Social Media” class, which I launched late in… Read More »“Where Should We Live” – a new class on cities, migration and climate change
When people talk about the beauty of the early web – before the Internet was “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of… Read More »Listening to All the Music
Ny friend Joachim Wiewiura invited me to give the inaugural talk at the Center for the Philosophy of AI (CPAI) at the University of Copenhagen… Read More »Gramsci’s Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony