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Technological Nature
Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology.Our forebears may have had a close connection with the natural world, but …
Who's Asking?
Analysis and case studies show that including different orientations toward the natural world makes for more effective scientific practice and science education.The answers to …
Technologies of the Human Corpse
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today.Death and the dead body …
absence of clutter
An exploration of minimal writing-texts generally shorter than a sentence-as complex, powerful literary and visual works.In the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists …
A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures
A collection of quirky, entertaining, and reader-friendly short pieces on philosophical topics that range from a theory of jerks to the ethics of ethicists.Have you ever wondered …
Types and Tokens
A consideration of the distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances, and an argument that types exist.There is a …
Maintenance Architecture
An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects.Maintenance plays a crucial role in the production and endurance …
Sifting the Trash
How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, …
Gyorgy Kepes
How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites.Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was …
What Have We Learned?
Top economists consider how to conduct policy in a world where previous beliefs have been shattered by the recent financial and economic crises.Since 2008, economic policymakers …