October 26, 2011
The Science of Politics and the Conquest of Nature
How liberal theory and evolutionary science gave us transhumanism
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October 26, 2011
How liberal theory and evolutionary science gave us transhumanism
August 8, 2011
In the 1990s, the mavens of high technology praised in breathless tones a new “placelessness.” Thanks to the...
July 18, 2011
July 18, 2011
Gertrude Stein’s famous line about the city of Oakland, California — that there is no “there” there — has...
July 18, 2011
What is “mobility” and what is it for? The word has commonly been used to describe upward movement on the...
July 18, 2011
I started working at the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) in 1973, right out of college, as a civil...
July 18, 2011
Until very recently, the centralization of administrative power under expert control — what we might call, for...
July 18, 2011
From when one leaves his parent’s home at eighteen until one has a place of his own at whatever age, there isn’t...
July 18, 2011
On the potential risks of “de-skilling” bioengineering
July 18, 2011
Human beings have always longed to transcend the suffering, finitude, and limits of embodied life. For some, this...