Judith Butler’s The Force of Nonviolence advocates for pacifism but neglects much of the tradition’s philosophy and feminist theory. Is it possible to merge Butler’s insights with a serious concern for how nonviolent […]
World Bank: Policy shifts can mitigate gray tsunami as population ages
“The greatest risk we face is not aging itself, but the unwillingness or inability to adapt,” said Laura Tuck, the World Bank’s vice president for the Europe and Central Asia […]
Against Waldenponding
waldenponding, a broad tendency to retreat from, and artificially limit, digital life – the near-religious reactionary movement against digital life – a primitivist, fetishistic fear of screens as demonic objects. […]
The Agenbite of Outwit
Evidently written in 1963, a year before McLuhan was to publish The Medium is the Message, this important article brings together in one place a number of the ideas that would […]
Is the world really better than ever?
The headlines have never been worse. But an increasingly influential group of thinkers insists that humankind has never had it so good – and only our pessimism is holding us […]