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On the Modern Project

Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Utopianism •
Disenchantment •
Faith and Science •
Progress •
Scientism •
All

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Samuel Matlack

Why the Progress Debate Goes Nowhere

You say “jetpacks,” I say “cabin in the woods,” let’s call the whole thing off.

From: What Calls to Build Miss

Samuel Matlack

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Lauren Spohn

Dinner with Dinosaurs

The right’s new love of technological progress isn’t a good enough answer to the left’s progressive ideology. What are they both missing?

From: What Calls to Build Miss

Lauren Spohn

Review | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • Robert Bellafiore

Accelerating to Where?

The anti-politics of the new jet pack lament

Robert Bellafiore

Essay | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • Nadia Asparouhova

Tech Strikes Back

“Accelerationism” is an overdue corrective to years of doom and gloom in Silicon Valley.

Nadia Asparouhova

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • M. Anthony Mills

What Does “Scientific Progress” Mean, Anyway?

Three ways we think about science flourishing — or getting stuck

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Jon Askonas

What Was the Fact?

Here lies a beloved friend of social harmony (ca. 1500–2000). It was nice while it lasted.

From: Reality: A Post-Mortem

Jon Askonas

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • John Ehrett

Can There Be a Conservative Futurism?

The retreat from time is not a winning answer to our tech malaise.

John Ehrett

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Nat Watkins

The Secret Life of Leftovers

Cheese, curry, beer: We can thank our ancestors who put food scraps to creative use. What we’re leaving our children is garbage.

Nat Watkins

Review | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • Alan Rome

Sad Trek

How an exhausted liberalism killed sci-fi’s sunniest franchise

Alan Rome

Essay | Winter 2022

Winter 2022

  • Samuel Matlack

How Tech Despair Can Set You Free

Jacques Ellul on escaping the totalizing grip of “technique”

Samuel Matlack

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