Intelligence Reimagined
In 1991, a twenty-one-year-old computer science student at the University of Helsinki named Linus Torvalds posted a modest message to an online Usenet newsgroup: “I’m … Read more
In 1989, urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg published a deceptively simple yet world-altering work of social philosophy: The Great Good Place. Oldenburg observed that healthy human … Read more
In 1902, Russian evolutionary biologist, geographer, and philosopher Peter Kropotkin published a revolutionary scientific treatise that permanently challenged the social Darwinist dogmas of his era: … Read more
For more than seven hundred years, nestled among the sheer glaciated valleys and high-altitude pastures of the Swiss Alps, rural farming communities in cantons like … Read more
Across the four-thousand-mile expanse of the ancient Silk Road—spanning the sun-scorched dunes of the Taklamakan Desert, the high-altitude winds of the Pamir knot, and the … Read more
Epistemic Governance & Information Ecology Dossier #COMM-2459 Disciplinary Domain: Social Epistemology, Information Theory, Platform Governance, Cybernetics Core Thinkers: Jürgen Habermas, Shoshana Zuboff, C. Thi Nguyen, … Read more
Cultural Sociology & Embodied Communities Dossier #COMM-0288 Disciplinary Domain: Cultural Sociology, Media Ecology, Phenomenology, Urban Geography Core Thinkers: Byung-Chul Han, Sherry Turkle, Hartmut Rosa, Albert … Read more
Bio-Regional Ecology & Commons Stewardship Dossier #COMM-2995 Disciplinary Domain: Bio-Regionalism, Agroecology, Environmental Ethics, Hydrological Systems Core Thinkers: Aldo Leopold, Gary Snyder, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Wendell … Read more
Ascetic Epistemology & Contemplative Community Dossier #COMM-2983 Disciplinary Domain: Ascetic Theology, Cognitive Philosophy, Media Ecology, Communal Sociology Core Thinkers: Thomas Merton, Neil Postman, Cal Newport, … Read more
Classical Philosophy & Civic Dialectics Dossier #COMM-2970 Disciplinary Domain: Classical Rhetoric, Moral Philosophy, Democratic Deliberation, Argumentation Theory Core Thinkers: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alasdair … Read more