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If on a Winter???s Night a Reader???
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (453+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Her breakdown, meticulously planned in advance, must have a “formal perfection.” If given a page in the DSM, Chihaya’s bibliophobia would be depicted as a disease infused with equal parts bibliophilia and bibliophobia,…...
How I Learned to Fear AI
4+ week, 2+ day ago (447+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship “It is so difficult. It wants a Pope to settle that!” —Thomas Hardy, The Mayor Casterbridge Love his arguments or hate them, I appreciate the chance to witness this particular pope out there…...
???If a Woman Commanded Fire???: Talking Historical Stoves and Affordable Energy with Joyce Chaplin
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1150+ words) “If a Woman Commanded Fire”: Talking Historical Stoves and Affordable Energy with Joyce Chaplin Public Books a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship “If a Woman Commanded Fire”: Talking Historical Stoves and Affordable Energy with Joyce Chaplin The Franklin Stove:…...
To Reach Beyond Ourselves Is Key to Our Survival
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (593+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship You reading this book, who are you? What is your face like, your hands holding the pages, the child forsaken in you, who now looks through your eyes at mine? —Muriel Rukeyser, The…...
“No Future” Lexicon: Nothingness
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (212+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship “Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place.” —The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Nothingness, in this sense, has exerted no selective pressure…...
Against Babel: Or, How to Talk to Strangers
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (337+ words) The question raised by the possibility of these common descents has been issued generation and generation anew: What exactly are we to do with the spoils of our shared past? What do we make of the people and languages that…...