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Twitter Links Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker
Freud’s ideas are today not simply rejected as false. They are repudiated as being dangerous or immoral; the “gloomy mythology” of warring instincts is…

January 22 2012, 12:07pm | Comments
Link It’s Only Humanist
To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been…

January 4 2012, 10:16am | Comments
Link Being Human (Blame it on Andy)
Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a…

September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments
Link Humanism / After Humanism
n this essay, I want to explore some dimensions of what the term “humanism” means—what it meant in the past and what it means today. In particular, I would like…

August 11 2011, 11:30am | Comments
Link The London Riots: On Consumerism coming Home to…
These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled…

August 9 2011, 3:32pm | Comments
Link The Pathology of Collecting
What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled…

July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments
Link Heaven for Atheists
It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re…

July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments
Link Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media
In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of…

April 20 2011, 3:25pm | Comments
Link Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame…
The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude…

March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments
Link The Myth of Separate Magisteria
By now, nearly everyone with a passing interest in science or religion is familiar with Stephen Jay Gould’s description of the two disciplines as “non-overlapping magisteria” with separate domains —…

November 10 2010, 6:17am | Comments
Link Against humanism
by Mary Midgley Does the term "humanism" really stand for a new and better form of religion? If so, what is that religion? Or is it something designed as a…

November 4 2010, 6:58am | Comments
Link Roger Scruton - Gloom merchant
The belief that humanity makes moral progress depends upon a wilful ignorance of history. It also depends upon a wilful ignorance of oneself – a refusal to recognise the extent…

June 12 2010, 9:19am | Comments
Link The Soul of the Scientist of Man
ow does the character of the scientist differ from that of the humanist? The past century has seen an acceleration in the “scientization” of the humanities. The roots of this…

April 4 2010, 6:54am | Comments
Link Is "Science Fiction Humanism" A Contradiction In Terms?
People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction's explorations put it into conflict with humanism's tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of…

March 10 2010, 10:54am | Comments
Link Theology for atheists
Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself…

January 8 2010, 3:29am | Comments

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