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Superfamous Clippings Marshall McLuhan, The Playboy Interview, 1969McLuhan’s observations — “probes,” he prefers to call them — are riddled with such flamboyantly undecipherable aphorisms as “The electric light is pure information” and “People don’t...

Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene...

By Richard Marshall. Mark Greif, The Age Of The Crisis Of Man: Thought and Fiction In America 1933-1973, Princeton 2015. This is a curious, fascinating book which doesn’t quite grip its subject. It’s actual subject is the crisis of the manifest image...

For the past several months, I’ve been immersed in nineteenth century history. Specifically, the history of interchangeability in technology between 1765, when the Système Gribeauval, the first modern technology doctrine based on the potential...

Twitter It! Soul-stirring, brain-expanding reads on intuition, love, grief, attention, education, and the meaning of life. All gratifying things must come to an end: The season’s subjective selection of best-of reading lists — which covered...