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Five Minutes with Fox Harrell

April 10, 2014

What are phantasms and how is the average individual confronted by them?

Five Minutes with G. Gabrielle Starr

G. Gabrielle Starr, author of Feeling Beauty, answers questions about the aesthetic experience. What does the phrase "Feeling Beauty" mean?

A Lunch BIT from The Parallax View by Slavoj Žižek

Yesterday we featured Slajov Žižek’s The Puppet Called Theology: A BIT of The Puppet and the Dwarf. Today, in our final BIT blog post, we turn once again to Žižek; this time highlighting a BIT o...

A Lunch BIT from The Puppet and the Dwarf by Slavoj Žižek

The philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek has written several books for the MIT Press including The Puppet and the Dwarf, an early title in the Short Circuits series.

A Lunch BIT from Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution by Charles Weiss and William B. Bonvillian

Even among the many who agree that action to halt climate change is a necessity disagree on what strategies to pursue and, crucially, whether those efforts should be undertaken by private industry or...