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The China scholar William Callahan, who has launched a critique of Zhao’s conception, suggests that his conception of tianxia as a top-down project of bringing order to a chaotic or potentially chaotic world cannot be derived from the thinkers Zhao uses such as Laozi and Zhuangzi.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
for my @NewYorker column this week, I wrote about Byung-Chul Han, the internet's new favorite philosopher, the Sartre of looking at your phone a lot, author of the paperback manifesto your favorite artist / designer / architect is carrying in their pocket https://t.co/vJAgdEpq3H
Kyle Chaykax.comEuclidean
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
The Daily Planet #3
This third edition of the Daily Planet might feel very unplanetary, but to the extent that China will be a/the Climate Leviathan of the future, Wang Huning's thinking about political ecology will determine our planetary condition.
Wang is the most powerful intellectual in the world and - if it comes to pass - the architect of a un
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