The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering, Byung-Chul Han In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the [...] Read more

Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy Author Name: Byung-Chul Han The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied [...] Read more

A near-unanimous sense of deep wrongness pulses beneath our daily lives—not a single problem, but an undercurrent of weariness that drains the soul more than the body, a vertigo born of racing [...] Read more

The Dead End of Checks and Balances Far from the cure to Trumpian authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline. Lisa L. Miller Read more [...] Read more

The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, Iain McGilChrist The Matter With Things is an ambitious, thought-provoking work that challenges readers to reconsider [...] Read more

John Searle is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His Talk at Google is focused on the philosophy of mind and the potential for consciousness in artificial [...] Read more

Self-reproduction as an autonomous process of growth and reorganization in fully abiotic, artificial and synthetic cells Abstract We investigate mechanisms for the observed nonlinear growth in the [...] Read more

Ivan Illich’s book, Deschooling Society, released in 1971, takes a bold stance on education. At a time when schools were expanding everywhere in the postwar West, Illich argued that traditional [...] Read more

Surviving Progress explores the dangerous paradox at the heart of modern civilization: what we call "progress" might actually be leading us toward collapse. Based on Ronald Wright’s concept of the [...] Read more

A new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released on Wednesday says the Arctic is set to warm more than three and a half times faster than the global average over the next five [...] Read more