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Who Owns an Enhanced Mind? Neural Data, Updates and the Problem of Cognitive Subscription

May 14, 2020

My illustration entitled: "The Rented Mind" — A person’s glowing neural network is connected by subscription cables to a corporate cloud, with an expiry timer looming above. Human-Sovereignty Transhuma...

Open Knowledge Is Digital Sovereignty

February 14, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

Why the Freedom to Understand, Verify and Share Is Essential to Life in the Digital Age My illustration entitled "The Sovereign Knowledge Toolkit" - I open an enormous illuminated case containing the t...

Against Digital Absolutism: Why Cypherpunkism Is Not Anti-State or Anti-Corporation

August 22, 2019

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Shield Against Absolutism" - I raise a luminous shield between citizens and two corrupted manifestations of power: an all-seeing surveillance state and an exploitative corpora...

The Right Not to Be Measured: Biometric Surveillance and the Sovereign Person

June 29, 2019

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Closed Eye" — A giant camera lens closes like an eyelid as a citizen calmly raises a hand in refusal. Human-Sovereignty Transhumanism supports technologies that empower p...

Whose Sovereignty? When Genetic Choices Shape Another Person’s Future

January 12, 2019

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Architect of Evolution" - Inside a colossal circular sanctuary, an enhanced person studies a floating DNA helix. Their biological hands and additional mechanical arms sculpt d...

The Cypherpunkism FAQ: Twenty Objections Answered

November 12, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Hydra of Misconceptions" - I confront a twenty-headed mechanical hydra whose heads symbolize recurring misconceptions: “privacy protects criminals,” “decentralization creates ...

The Cypherpunkist Test: Who Does the Technology Empower?

October 10, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Cypherpunkist’s Litmus Test" - I place different technologies—AI, digital currency, social platforms, biometrics and brain–computer interfaces—into a luminous testing apparatu...

One Mind, Many Machines: When Human Control Becomes an Illusion

July 12, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "One Mind, Fifty Machines" - A lone transhuman stands on a towering platform, directing an expansive formation of robots, drones and construction machines through luminous neural c...

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