Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man — Marshall McLuhan
Every decade or so, a book arrives that doesn’t describe the world so much as…
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall — The Book That Moved the Boundary Between Us and Them
Jane Goodall’s In the Shadow of Man didn’t just study chimpanzees — it dismantled the wall between human and animal. A review of the book that redefined what it means to be human.
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver — Rage With a Philosophy Behind It
A review of Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice — the 1968 prison essays that turned racial fury into one of the most unsettling works of American existentialist thought.
The Symposium by Plato: What Socrates Knows About Love That Nobody Wants to Hear
Plato wrote a dinner party. Grown men reclining on cushions, wine moving around the room,…
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy by Manuel DeLanda — What Plato Got Wrong and Why It Still Matters
Plato wanted the world to be clean. Fixed types. Eternal forms sitting outside time and…
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky — The First Man Who Refused to Get Better
Dostoevsky wrote this in 1864. The Underground Man has been living rent-free in my head…
