When I taught physics at Yale in the 1980s and ’90s, my colleagues and I took pride in our position on “science hill,” looking down on the humanities scholars in the intellectual valleys below as they ...

Readers of Science magazine must have been surprised when they opened the December 22 issue and found an essay-review (much longer than the typical Science book review) by David Foster Wallace, writer ...

The topography in which SF criticism operates has been long established. There is, on the one hand, the "mainstream," that "outside" of SF where the literary/institutional determinations of the ...

Abstract.--In the hyperreal order of simulations, which is governed by informatic and cybernetic control systems, reality is increasingly determined by models (rather than the reverse). The distance ...

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In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...

The cosmic creation story / Brian Swimme -- Postmodern science and a postmodern world / David Bohm -- The postmodern challenge to biology / Charles Birch -- The laws of nature as habits / Rupert ...

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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Chris Daley noticed that ‘postmodern’ has been popping up a lot lately ...

The Parisian suburbs are known for their grands ensembles, massive suburban apartment complexes built in the 1950s and 1960s. Square, monofunctional and surrounded by open spaces, they are the ...

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in prominent scholarly journals with titles like “Thinking the Unthinkable in ...

What is (are) culture(s)? -- Emics and etics -- The nature of cultural things -- Science, objectivity, morality -- De-biologizing culture : the Boasians ...