What is time? What does it mean for time to pass? Is it possible to travel in time? What is the difference between the past and future? Until the work of Newton, these questions were purely topics of philosophical speculation. Since then we've...
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist...
The best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past...
Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy...
El escritor italiano Claudio Magris propone no rendirse frente al estado de cosas tal como están, sabiendo que, quizás, el mundo no cambie ni mejore. El libro reúne una selección de la obra ensayística del autor entre 1974 y...
A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world
Wonder and awe lie at the heart of life’s most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions respond to our fundamental need to make sense of...
The Burnout Society
The Transparency Society
The agony of eros
In the Swarm: Digital Prospects
Psychopolitics
Saving Beauty
The Scent of Time
Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese
The Expulsion of the Other
Topology of Violence
What Is Power?
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