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the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
production are folded into and over themselves and where emergent desires (whether from the past or the future) are nascent forces.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Committed to reducing the social inequalities and loosening the traditional disciplinary boundaries that subtend the academy, we aim to facilitate freedom for everyone’s curiosity to pursue seemingly incommensurable ideas and applications.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
my strategy is “Schaefferian” in the sense that my primary audience is not just philosophers but practitioners—more specifically, Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world, as well as searching inhabitants of this postmodern world. As such, these essays are not an academic project per se.
James K. A. Smith • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
The next quality of accompaniment is playfulness.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Alex Danco • Social Capital in Silicon Valley
A guiding tenet in my work—both as a writer and as a coach—is pattern recognition.
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
If we’re not careful, our personalities and habits slowly and inevitably calcify over time.
Michael Schur • How to Be Perfect
carnality can function as a creative political,