Meadows, Meadows, Randers, Behrens, Limits to Growth
The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report on the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources. ...
Continue Reading →Descartes, The Geometry of René Descartes
La Géométrie was published in 1637 as an appendix to Discours de la méthode (Discourse on the Method), written by René Descartes. In the ...
Continue Reading →Descartes, The World and Other Writings
Descartes’ The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his ...
Continue Reading →Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic
In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to ...
Continue Reading →Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics
The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault’s lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-century political economy marks the ...
Continue Reading →Foucault, The Courage of the Truth
The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In ...
Continue Reading →Foucault, The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucult offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms ...
Continue Reading →Deleuze, The Fold
The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (French: Le Pli: Leibnitz et le Baroque) is a book by Gilles Deleuze which offers a new interpretation ...
Continue Reading →Alberti, Momus
Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and “universal man” of the Italian Renaissance. In this ...
Continue Reading →Alberti, Delineation of the City of Rome
In the 1440s, Leon Battista Alberti carried out a topographical survey of the city of Rome that, he claims, was conducted as accurately as ...
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