What Does “Scientific Progress” Mean, Anyway?
Three ways we think about science flourishing — or getting stuck
On the Modern Project
Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise
Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise
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
How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk
Why the swamp and its drainers were both blind to the threat
