Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Biomimicry Revolution
Henry Dicks is an environmental philosopher who specializes in the philosophical aspects of biomimicry and learning from nature. His recent work, The Biomimicry Revolution: Learning...
Unimaginable Time
Buried in an arctic mountainside in Norway is the Global Music Vault, a digital data storage facility that is designed to preserve selections of...
Reports From Abroad: Dr. Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach
This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalized world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Sustainable History and Human Dignity
Nayef Al-Rodhan is a philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, Head of the Geopolitics...
A conversation with Susan Neiman and friends around anti-fascist organizing
The occasion of this salon is Susan Neiman's short book, Left Is Not Woke. Joining Susan are Katherine Cassese, Julia Gibson, Stephen Rich, and Steven Vogel, as well as members of the emergent discussion group, Neighborhood.
Reparations: What does benefiting have to do with it?
Recently, the issue of reparation for slavery and Jim Crow racism has received renewed interest, spurred in part by Ta Nehisi-Coates' 2014 article, “The...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Choose Your Bearing
Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Saint LouisUniversity. His recent book Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights...
The Great Betrayal: why the Internet became an autocracy and how it may yet...
This post includes excerpts from Vili Lehdonvirta’s book Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control (MIT Press).
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Reports from Abroad: Dr. Rafal Banka
This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalized world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling...
Appreciating the Forest from the Trees
Why do species matter? Many have instrumental value. Some, for instance, are indicator species (e.g. freshwater mussels), some are keystone species (e.g. sea otters (Enhydra lutris)),...