Tech has broken our entire world model, but we are in denial
Geopolitics is in flux, history has “returned”, there is war, political upheaval and technological disruption everywhere: These matters command an overwhelming…
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The melancholy of modernity leaves too many of us unmoored, disconnected
Western civilisation still has not satisfyingly answered a key question that arose as a consequence of modernity and industrialisation: How do we reconcile the promise…
We have outgrown ancient superstitions, but we live with holy relics marked ‘science’
Although religion has fallen out of fashion, I do not think that religiosity itself has.
Surviving the Zombie apocalypse: What the Victorians can teach us
Every semester I like to ask my students a simple question: “Where would you go during a Zombie apocalypse?”