Making New Land is an essay in theory-fiction set a near future, where the oceans have disappeared. In these devastated landscapes, first person narrator investigates unsolved biological enigmas on Earth and Mars. footsteps of fictional group Anarcho-botanists called Sea for Space, story alternates melancholic longing beauty intertidal coastal lifeforms with futuristic visions new species engin...

When I proposed having the future at center of this issue, which marks 10th anniversary Humanist Studies & The Digital Age, was aware complexity controversial topic. possibility magnifiche sorti e progressive — a “splendid and destiny” made possible by human technology inspires hope in some critique others. expression comes from one Leopardi’s last poems, Ginestra o il fiore del deserto (Br...

This thought experiment in comparison ponders a Black man’s conviction that his Hebrew identity would make him immune to COVID-19. Surfacing the history of claims and scholar’s own suspicions, paper examines layered politics identification. Contra an essentialist understanding terms, “Hebrew” “Hebrews” are shown be classificatory events, ones imbricated dynamics racecraft. Furthermore, contextu...

Abstract In the article I argue that intellectual arrogance can be an individual, collective and even corporate vice. show is in all these cases underpinned by defensive positive evaluations of epistemic features evaluator service buttressing its illegitimate social dominance. Individual as superbia or hubris stems from attitudes biased motive self-enhancement. Collective to a one’s identity se...