"The world is in the throes of a pervasive crisis. The gap between rich and poor has widened in most countries... The economic malaise has a corollary in politics: democracy is floundering." foreignaffairs.com/reviews/end-de…

"What it means to be human, then, is not a constant, but continually constituted, altered and re-constituted through the recursive interface with an open and evolving world." noemamag.com/the-evolution-…

rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-persp… via The Rockefeller Foundation

“So-called ‘artificial’ intelligence is the latest extension of the emergent process through which life takes ever more diverse and complex forms.” noemamag.com/after-the-huma…

"...understanding of the indeterminate direction of history not only departs from the modern paradigm of historical progression rooted in Judeo-Christian eschatology, but embraces its opposite in the “principle of reverse movement.”" - NATHAN GARDELS noemamag.com/a-daoist-take-…

“Signs of this new industry of sustainability — and its profits — are everywhere now: LED screens on the university campus and at the airport invite people to ‘become the green transition.'” noemamag.com/green-colonial…

“Money is abstract, absurd. It’s a belief system, a language, a social contract. Money is trust. But the rules aren’t fixed in stone.” noemamag.com/what-if-money-…

"Despite growing awareness that national sovereignty is no longer fit for purpose as the basis of world order in the 21st century, the inertia remains strong." - NATHAN GARDELS noemamag.com/in-kissingers-…

"...planetary governance would not be centered at the global level, but distributed through decision-division to appropriate levels where relevant action needs to be taken..." - NATHAN GARDELS noemamag.com/in-kissingers-…

"Governments should require companies hoping to receive public money to supply the technical matter needed to maintain and improve the things they provide to our public institutions." noemamag.com/freeing-oursel… via Noema Magazine

"... What makes modern life qualitatively different from what came before? By which concepts can we best understand it?.." thecollector.com/giorgio-agambe…

"...There is a crisis at the at the heart of humanity... What exactly is going on in the world, with the world? Agamben’s latest publication is a poetical reflection on the current age..." theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-gi…

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"The rules can’t apply to everyone except the most powerful, nor can they be an excuse for terrorism by the weak." - NATHAN GARDELS noemamag.com/nationhood-rev…

"China has a strong incentive to prevent the dollar’s collapse because it would likely be the largest financial loser should the dollar depreciate." noemamag.com/china-wants-to… via Noema Magazine

"I hoped to see things I would not ordinarily come across. I decided to treat everything as interesting." noemamag.com/a-single-small… via Noema Magazine

"...throughout the Middle Ages... failure of the apocalypse to arrive that allowed a sense of worldly history to itself consolidate, as it became gradually freed from the conviction that time is exhaustively orchestrated from beyond by divine diktat..." noemamag.com/untangling-rel…

"New and emerging technologies are transmuting these concepts, in turn prompting us to reconsider the philosophical and institutional scaffoldings that have historically narrated the human as apart from—and master over—nature." berggruen.org/news/future-hu…

"Experimenting in and with philosophy is a nutritive, zealous, and multi-pronged perspicacity. We seek a modality of philosophical inquiry..." berggruen.org/news/future-hu…