“Mathematics As A Cultural Force”
“In his new book, Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical, historian Amir Alexander advances an audacious claim: that Euclidean geometry profoundly influenced not just the history of mathematics, but also broader sociopolitical reality.”
A Lovely Meditation on How Reading Skills Wax And Wane Through Life
“You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.”
Extraordinary: “A Sociology Of The Smartphone”
Equipped with these devices, we’re both here and somewhere else at the same time, joined to everything at once yet never fully anywhere at all. The individual networked in this way is no longer the autonomous subject enshrined in liberal theory, not precisely. Our very selfhood is smeared out across a global mesh of nodes […]