Man and Technics
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) was a cultural historian most famous for his 1917 book, The Decline of the West, which shocked the public with its pessimistic…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
THE DAO OF COMPLEXITY
This remarkable book is distinguished by its illuminating exploration of the contemporary complex world, which is characterised by unpredictability, interconnectedness, and constantly changing flows. Boulton's…… Read More »
OUR STONE AGE BRAIN IN THE SCREEN AGE
Are we becoming ‘humans doing’ rather than ‘human beings’, the author asks in this hugely significant book. He is concerned about the rapid change in…… Read More »
PURE HUMAN
In this very important and timely book, Gregg spells out the implications for our humanness of a transition to transhumanism – 'Human 2.0' – in…… Read More »
Nexus
Harari’s latest book, ‘Nexus’ is about the history of information networks, progressing from the invention of writing, moving on to printing, and then the advent…… Read More »
Combining
This is a book of extraordinary subtlety and brilliance, combining prose, poetry in a different font, paintings by her associates, and collages with text boxes.…… Read More »
Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age
This is a very important book, which I will review fully in the next issue – especially significant for parents of young children in terms…… Read More »
Attention is Discovery
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) spent decades studying glass plate photographs and especially variable stars, which ultimately led to her understanding the sheer scale of the…… Read More »
The Tao of the Cosmos
This book is an extraordinary tour de force bringing together modern cosmology, ancient I Ching and Daoist philosophy with Penrose and Hameroff’s quantum brain dynamics…… Read More »
The Network of Life – A New View of Evolution
This is an important book outlining a new narrative of evolution as a network characterised by horizontal evolution disclosing life as fundamentally interconnected in webs…… Read More »