If someone from 1999 created a time machine and traveled to today and asked:
"So, do we survive after y2k? Do we still have Napster? What's 2018 like?"
I would wordlessly hold up this article.
Just look at the name of the journal he was editor for, "Critique." I'd venture a guess that the journal is a postmodern critical theory type rag. Biological reality means less than intersectionality in the world of postmodern critical theory. But I may be reading too much into the name.