ALIENATION. RAHEL JAEGGI, Columbia University Press The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. [...] Read more

Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death endures because it confronts the most universal yet most repressed dimension of human existence. Its brilliance lies in revealing that the striving for [...] Read more

Frey, C. B. (2019). The technology trap: Capital, labor, and power in the age of automation. Princeton University Press. How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand [...] Read more

What does AI mean for the future of work and society? In this conversation, Mustafa Suleyman and Ian Bremmer discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping our world and populating it with myriad [...] Read more

Dr Anne Marie Tosolini, Paleobotanist Melbourne University: “I think climate change is actually the biggest threat humanity has ever faced and it's an interesting threat because it's something we [...] Read more

Find out how organisations like tobacco and fossil fuel companies sell doubt about science, in order to undermine public trust. [...] Read more

Imagine a world where most people do not think for themselves. Instead, they repeat what they hear, cling to the opinions of the majority, and fear standing apart. Now ask yourself: how much of our [...] Read more

Alone Together, Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together (2011) offers a penetrating sociological and psychological examination of the ways digital technologies—particularly social media, [...] Read more

How to Be a Happier Creature By Maria Popova It must be encoded there, in the childhood memories of our synapses and our cells — how we came out of the ocean 35 trillion yesterdays ago, small and [...] Read more

Evolving Into One 3.8 billion years ago, life began to emerge on Earth. A single lonely cell, the ancestor we share with everything else that lives, began to diverge into individual species. At [...] Read more