Tag: "culture & society"

I Find That Offensive by Claire Fox

Terri Murray isn’t offended by Claire Fox’s book about the politics of being offended.
[Issue 120: June/July 2017: Books]

Westworld

Leo Cookman performs an Unheimlich manoeuvre to review a disturbing android saga.
[Issue 120: June/July 2017: Television]

Jon Carter’s Cartoon

by Jon Carter
[Issue 120: June/July 2017: Cartoon]

Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone? by Frank Furedi

Neil Richardson laments a surplus of generalities.
[Issue 119: April/May 2017: Books]

News: December 2016 / January 2017

Peter Singer wins Philosophy Now Award • Philosophers and the US Election • Animal Welfare: Good News & Bad News? — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
[Issue 117: December 2016 / January 2017: News]

Envisioning Society

by Grant Bartley and Rick Lewis
[Issue 116: October/November 2016: Editorial]

The Social Contract: A License to Steal

Stephen Faison cross-examines the idea of a social contract.
[Issue 116: October/November 2016: Visions of Society]

Informed Voting

Lorenzo Capitani is in favour of government through knowledge not ignorance.
[Issue 116: October/November 2016: Visions of Society]

Is An Ageing Population Our Natural Fate?

Nguyen Ba Thanh wonders if death by old age is civilisation’s destiny.
[Issue 116: October/November 2016: Visions of Society]

Symbolic Misery: Volume 1: The Hyperindustrial Epoch by Bernard Stiegler

Daniel Tutt learns the art of winning an aesthetic war.
[Issue 116: October/November 2016: Books]

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