singularity

Literary Scholar Andrew H. Miller On Solitude As a Common Bond

Literary Scholar Andrew H. Miller On Solitude As a Common Bond

Andrew H. Miller’s On Not Being Someone Else considers how contemplating other possibilities for one’s life creates meaning in the life one leads.

The Singularity of Žižek

The Singularity of Žižek

According to Slavoj Žižek's latest work, Hegel in a Wired Brain, a new kind of Fall from the Fall is necessary.

There’s a Perverse Thrill in Reading a Book That Presages the Possible Extinction of Humankind

There’s a Perverse Thrill in Reading a Book That Presages the Possible Extinction of Humankind

Superintelligence is a serious, intellectually disorientating treatment of ideas, imagining the inevitable future when we are able to create an artificial general intelligence.