Todd, The Explanation of Ideology
Some parts of the world are dominated by communism, others by Catholicism or by Islam and yet others by liberal doctrines. Why should this be? ...
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How can a person from a Western culture enter into a way of thinking as different as that of the Chinese? Can a person truly ...
Continue Reading →Rivière， Berliner Architekt*innen. Oral History
Publikation im Rahmen der Ausstellung [FRAU] ARCHITEKT*IN, 3. Juni – 8. Juli 2021, Reuse-Pavillon, Berlin Wie gestalten Architektinnen ihre Berufswege?Auf welche Stereotypen und Diskriminierungen stoßen ...
Continue Reading →Lynn, The Classic of Changes
Used in China as a book of divination and source of wisdom for more than three thousand years, the I Ching has been taken up ...
Continue Reading →Agamben, Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture
“Stanzas” (which means “rooms” in Italian) is a blend of philology, the psychoanalysis of toys, medieval physics and psychology, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy. In ...
Continue Reading →Calasso, The Unnamable Present
Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that ...
Continue Reading →Todd, Who is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class
In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate ...
Continue Reading →Abiteboul, The Age of Algorithms
Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, ...
Continue Reading →Allado-McDowell, Pharmako-AI
The first book to be co-written with the language AI GPT-3, exploring selfhood, ecology and technology. During the first summer of the coronavirus pandemic, a ...
Continue Reading →Calasso, The Book of All Books
A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellectual superstar Roberto Calasso, figures of the Bible ...
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