Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise
“Accelerationism” is an overdue corrective to years of doom and gloom in Silicon Valley.
Three ways we think about science flourishing — or getting stuck
Here lies a beloved friend of social harmony (ca. 1500–2000). It was nice while it lasted.
The retreat from time is not a winning answer to our tech malaise.
Cheese, curry, beer: We can thank our ancestors who put food scraps to creative use. What we’re leaving our children is garbage.
Jacques Ellul on escaping the totalizing grip of “technique”
Why Claude Lévi-Strauss celebrated every culture but his own
On the unified cosmic vision of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth century’s great naturalist-adventurer