Witt, Formulations
An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century. In Formulations, ...
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A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy Stengers recovers the idea of “common sense” as ...
Continue Reading →Stengers, Another Science is Possible
Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have ...
Continue Reading →Schildberger, On Food
Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches, and ...
Continue Reading →Roadshow, A Matter of Energy
This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Nick Lane, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London and bestselling author. ...
Continue Reading →Murray, Process Reality and the Power of Symbols
Following A. N. Whitehead, this book takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both Life ...
Continue Reading →Lane, The Vital Question
To explain the mystery of how life evolved on Earth, Nick Lane explores the deep link between energy and genes. The Earth teems with life: ...
Continue Reading →Jullien, The Great Image Has No Form or On the Nonobject through Painting
In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical ...
Continue Reading →Derrida, Acts of Literature
First published in 1992. “Acts of Literature”, compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida’s writings on ...
Continue Reading →Celan, The Meridian Speech
Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan’s acceptance of the Georg Büchner Prize for ...
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