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Artificial intelligence or human whims?

The mathematician Hannah Fry has explored the shortcomings and possibilities of artificial intelligence. A fruitful division of labor between machine and human is possible – and necessary, she believes.

Hunger's big question – properly asked

In a small, concise book, Eric Holt-Giménez shows that hunger problems are different than we usually think.

Towards a united humanity

We live in the midst of a world historical drama where revolutionary hope must be kept equal. Only in this way can we build civilization for everyone, claims philosopher Alain Badiou.

Artificial idiocy and natural intelligence

The real danger of artificial intelligence is that we surrender to bureaucratic bureaucrats who do not know how to break the rules.

An Aztec hip-hop millennial battle for the globe

A new, young voice is fighting for indigenous people as well as the environment. This is how he spreads hope both to his own generation and to the elderly.

The climate crisis

Andreas Malm is a fierce and clear-eyed critic of the environmental destruction of capitalism. Now he is raging against a "reactionary environmental movement" and wants to save the concept of nature to save nature.

Magicians and prophets about the future of nature

In an effective mix of polemics and history of ideas, this book shows how the environmental situation is a product of the ideas we have about it.

Will dampen the greenhouse effect by manipulating the atmosphere with synthetic emissions

When the climate becomes the main focus for cross-border politics, this is not necessarily good news. Clima Leviathan is trying to provide a political forecast for the climate crisis.

First aid for the last people

Where Nietzsche advocated for a high-spirited and prophetic geophilosophy, 150 years ago, Latour continues with a poetic and down-to-earth controversy about climate agreements and the planet's overall condition. 

Caught in our own snare

In this ecological martial art, two academics declare a settlement with their own generation on behalf of their grandchildren. The result is a bumpy but sincere book – which succeeds best when it calls for direct action and declares ecological state of emergency.

Vita hyperactive!

When the belief in shared narratives fades, while the individual's life becomes more hectic, time itself loses direction and meaning, Byung-Chul Han believes.

Europe's crisis is philosophical

Europe is suffering from an unclear crisis: the forces that would unite us are absent, while the contradictions that would propel something new are too vague. A philosophical clarification of the disease is needed to prepare a healthy political struggle. 

The power of impotence

We need a new activism – not through revolutionary change, but through systematic efforts to develop a humane and free society.

Without fellowship, no hope

By studying the modes of hope and the irresolutions of hopelessness, Ronald Aronson shows us what changing the world entails.

Bigger, faster and more inventive 

More people with ever-increasing energy consumption assume that we are accelerating technology development at an ever wilder pace.

To shape world citizens

Kant's pedagogy shows us what is at stake in children's education: the civilization of humanity

To the youth nowadays 

The aging Alain Badiou has written an advanced confirmation speech about existential torment as an opening towards a better society. 

The environmental crisis from the perspective of the stars

The "mature anthropocene" increases as we help rather than disrupt the fragile climatic equilibrium.

Gentle climate revival

Rather than perpetrating shame over the damage we have done to the environment, we must awaken to a mature environmental awareness. 

The environmental crisis from the perspective of the stars

The day we help rather than disrupt the climate, we can talk about the "mature anthropocene".

The escape from the common problems

Recently deceased Zygmunt Bauman is known for his grim social diagnoses. Where is the medicine? 

Between the ideal state and the mall

Author Abensour goes back to Benjamin and More to remind us what it means to think that another world is possible.

The Art of Coexistence in the Age of Mass Extinction

Man should enter into an intimate and living "collaboration" with other species rather than pursuing a dry zero-sum game of calculated risk and balancing self-interest, Donna Haraway believes. 

Questionable overall stories about the environment

Long before the industrial revolution, people have been warning about what a predatory nature can do.

The art of living a wild and natural life in a poisoned world

What naturalness are we really trying to find back?