The Ordinal Society

Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy

Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy dive into how the imperative to create, measure, and collect data wherever and whenever possible has scrambled our ways of knowing the world, each other, and crucially ourselves.

Always Coming Home

Ursula K. Le Guin

An archeology of the future.

Lifehouse

Adam Greenfield

Adam Greenfield proposes a strategy for surviving the climate crisis: Lifehouses, or a network of places of care, mutual aid, resource distribution, and solidarity.

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli

Is time out there? Or is it within us?

Conquest

Nina Allan

Rachel’s boyfriend Frank is not like other people.

The Soul’s Code

James Hillman

Jungian psychoanalyst James Hillman posits that we are each accompanied by what he variously calls our “acorn,” “daimon,” or “angel”—that mystical being who both protects us and insists on driving us toward our soul’s calling.

The Wall

Marlen Haushofer

On holiday in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman wakes up to find that an invisible wall has descended all around her.

The Other Side of Empathy

Jade E. Davis

“Empathy is an illusion at best, or simply—as is said in moments of deep reflection—bullshit!”