“Through fiction we saw the birth Of futures yet to come Yet in fiction lay the bones, ugly in their nakedness Yet under this mortal sun, we cannot hide ourselves” — Isis, “In Fiction” There’s an episode of The Twilight Zone I watched as a kid that stuck with me. I don’t remember all of… Continue reading Recurring Themes, Part Five: The End of Humanity
“…which may have also very well been the reason for Martin Heidegger’s mistake, now that one stops to think about it. Which is to say that very possibly Martin Heidegger was busily writing one of his books through all of that time. Very possibly the book he was so busily writing was one of the… Continue reading Headroom for Heidegger: Three New Books
The Handbook of Sociology Theory (Springer) is a monster. Editor Jonathan Turner jokingly calls it an “arm book” instead of a “handbook,” and at 745 pages, it’s really no joke. Instead of compiling a compendium of old, dusty standards, Turner gathered the newest, most-viable theories in sociology, “with an eye to capturing the diversity of… Continue reading The Handbook of Sociology Theory and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
The Frankfurt School has been somewhat of a mystery to me. Mentioned in nearly half the books I read, their thought is synonymous with critical theory. I’ve gotten a lot of secondhand exposure to the school, and I’ve read a fair amount of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, and Marcuse, but I’ve never felt a full grasp… Continue reading The Essential Frankfurt School Reader
After exploring the newest science of cultural evolution in her last book, The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore returns now with twenty interviews with some of the world’s biggest minds. What does one talk about with the world’s biggest minds? Well, minds of course. Roy ChristopherI marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan. Editor of Boogie… Continue reading Conversations on Consciousness Edited by Susan Blackmore
