“The Apollo Mission”, David X Wiggin, Alt Hist #2
It’s from way back in 2012 and the second issue of the now sadly defunct Alt Hist, but David X Wiggins’ “The Apollo Mission” is a story that has stayed…
Category: complexity
Dorothy L Sayers on Dante’s Inferno as a portrait of social collapse
From Introductory Dante Papers, Dorothy L Sayers: That the Inferno is a picture of human society in a state of sin and corruption, everybody will readily agree. And since we…
Joseph Tainter: “People have to take responsibility for knowing and understanding the predicament we’re facing “
From this interview with Joseph Tainter: And so individuals need to take responsibility for their own ignorance. As I said, our species did not evolve to think broadly in terms…
The wisdom of silence
Adam de Ville has a particularly good post on Eastern Christian Books on Terry Eagleton’s book on sacrifice. This is an especially rich post covering a range of topics… but…
“Carbon dioxide should be regarded the same way we view other waste products” – Klaus Lackner and changing minds on carbon
This Elizabeth Kolbert article from the New Yorker on carbon capture is a few months old, but still well worth reading. It is sobering to read how many of the…
The “lazy and indifferent” heron of “Monday or Tuesday”, Virginia Woolf
The only short story collection that she had selected in her lifetime, “Monday or Tuesday” is a 1921 collection in which she pursued the approach to writing set out in…
Learning How To See Again, Josef Pieper
LEARNING HOW TO SEE AGAIN By Josef Pieper (translated by Lothar Krauk) from Only The Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation Man’s ability to see is in decline. Those who…
The Immanent Self: Epigenetics, Modern Liberalism and Spinoza
Originally posted on The Nexus of Epigenetics:
by Shea Robison (@EpigeneticsGuy) (The following is a summary of a talk presented at the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy on January 11, 2016.…
Séamus Sweeney 