A Thousand Essays

  1. Deutsch, D. (1994). The Evolution of Culture.
  2. Orwell, G. (1946). Politics and the English Language.
  3. Burman, J. (2012). The misunderstanding of memes: Biography of an unscientific object, 1976–1999.
  4. Thoreau, H. (1849). On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.
  5. Sontag, S. (1964). Against Interpretation.
  6. Barthes, R. (1967). The Death of the Author. (Heath, S., Trans.)
  7. Poe, E. (1846). The Philosophy of Composition.
  8. Borges, J. (1942). The Analytical Language of John Wilkins. (Fitzgerald, W., Trans.)
  9. Foucault, M. (1982). The Subject and Power.
  10. Derrida, J. (1966). Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences. (Bass, A., Trans.)
  11. Vonnegut, K. (1985). How to Write with Style.
  12. Baudrillard, J. (1983). The Ecstacy of Communication. (Johnston, J., Trans.)
  13. Benjamin, W. (1936). The Storyteller. (Zohn, H., Trans.)
  14. Lyotard, J. (1984). The Sublime and the Avant-garde. (Liebmann, L., Trans.)
  15. Flexner, A. (1939). The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge.
  16. Didion, J. (1961). On Self-Respect.
  17. Deleuze, G. (1992). Postscript on the Societies of Control. (Joughin, M., Trans.)
  18. Fitzgerald, F. (1936). The Crack-Up.
  19. Anzaldúa, G. (1987). How to Tame a Wild Tongue.
  20. Haldane, J. (1926). On Being the Right Size.
  21. Wilde, O. (1889). The Decay of Lying.
  22. Grice, H. (1975). Logic and Conversation.
  23. Russell, B. (1905). On Denoting.
  24. Gettier, E. (1963). Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?.
  25. Chesterton, G. (1905). A Defence of Heraldry.
  26. Emerson, R. (1841). Self-Reliance.
  27. Smith, Z. (2007). Fail Better.
  28. Durant, W., & Durant, A. (1968). Is Progress Real?.
  29. Calvino, I. (1986). Why Read the Classics?. (Creagh, P., Trans.)
  30. Freeman, J. (1972). The Tyranny of Structurelessness.
  31. Strawson, G. (2004). Against Narrativity.
  32. Dennett, D. (1992). The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity.
  33. Behrendt, K. (2010). Scraping Down the Past: Memory and Amnesia in W. G. Sebald's Anti-narrative.
  34. Chomsky, N. (2007). Of Minds and Language.
  35. Kripke, S. (1979). A Puzzle about Belief.
  36. Hayek, F. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society.
  37. Alexander, S. (2014). Meditations on Moloch.
  38. Einstein, A. (1949). Why Socialism?.
  39. Kapp, K. (1939). Economic Regulation and Economic Planning.
  40. Asimov, I. (1989). The Relativity of Wrong.
  41. Feyerabend, P. (1975). How to Defend Society Against Science.
  42. Popper, K. (1963). Science as Falsification.
  43. James, W. (1907). Pragmatism's Conception of Truth.
  44. Lewis, D. (2001). Forget About the 'Correspondence Theory of Truth'.
  45. Heidegger, M. (1977). The Question Concerning Technology. (Lovitt, W., Trans.)
  46. Metcalf, R. (1991). Art and the Saving Power in Late Heidegger.
  47. Nietzsche, F. (1874). On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense. (Haussmann, W., Trans.)
  48. Quine, W. (1961). Two Dogmas of Empiricism.
  49. Haraway, D. (1988). Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.
  50. Lorde, A. (1984). The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House.
  51. Latour, B. (2004). Why has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern.
  52. Turing, A. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence.
  53. Clark, A., & Chalmers, D. (1998). The Extended Mind.
  54. Nagel, T. (1974). What is It Like to Be a Bat?.
  55. Searle, J. (1980). Minds, Brains, and Programs.
  56. Jackson, F. (1982). Epiphenomenal Qualia.
  57. Churchland, P. (1996). The Hornswoggle Problem.
  58. Shopenhauer, A. (1851). On Thinking for Oneself. (Janaway, C., Trans.)
  59. Montaigne, M. (1595). On Solitude. (Cotton, C., Trans.)
  60. Kant, I. (1784). What is Enlightenment?. (Humphrey, T., Trans.)
  61. Anderson, E. (2001). A Comment on Amartya Sen's Contributions to Philosophy and Economics.
  62. Harsanyi, J. (1975). Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls’s Theory.
  63. Cohen, G. (1997). Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice.
  64. Sen, A. (2006). What Do We Want From a Theory of Justice?.
  65. Whitehead, A. (1929). The Aims of Education.
  66. Barthelme, D. (1997). Not Knowing.
  67. Eco, U. (1989). The Poetics of the Open Work. (Cancogni, A., Trans.)
  68. Arendt, H. (1967). Truth and Politics.
  69. Bacon, F. (1625). Of Truth.
  70. Lewis, C. (1945). The Inner Ring.
  71. Weil, S. (1962). Human Personality. (Rees, R., Trans.)
  72. Morley, C. (1920). On laziness.
  73. Swift, J. (1729). A Modest Proposal.
  74. Singer, P. (1972). Famine, Affluence, and Morality.
  75. Wolf, S. (1982). Moral Saints.
  76. Garrett, H. (1968). The Tragedy of the Commons.
  77. Ostrom, E., Burger, J., Field, C., Norgaard, R., & Policansky, D. (1999). Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges.
  78. Plato (~380 BCE). The Allegory of the Cave. (Eyer, S., Trans.)
  79. Sartre, J. (1946). Existentialism is a Humanism. (Kaufman, W., Trans.)
  80. King, M. (1963). Letter from Birmingham Jail.
  81. Butler, J. (1988). Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory.
  82. White, E. (1949). Here is New York.
  83. Twain, M. (1883). The Art of Inhumation.
  84. Feynman, R. (1974). Cargo Cult Science.
  85. Eliot, T. (1919). Tradition and the Individual Talent.
  86. Rorty, R. (1972). The World Well Lost.
  87. Kierkegaard, S. (1844). Subjectivity is Truth.
  88. Feldman, R. (2010). Reasonable Religious Disagreements.
  89. Goldman, A. (2010). Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable Disagreement.
  90. Christensen, D. (2013). Epistemic Modesty Defended.
  91. Yudkowsky, E. (2017). Against Modest Epistemology.
  92. Cowen, T., & Hanson, R. (2004). Are Disagreements Honest.
  93. Frankfurt, H. (1986). On Bullshit.
  94. Black, M. (1983). The Prevalence of Humbug.
  95. Healy, K. (2017). Fuck Nuance.
  96. Gould, S. (1997). Nonoverlapping Magisteria.
  97. Freud, S. (1925). Note upon the "Mystic Writing-Pad".
  98. Lacan, J. (1949). The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function. (Fink, B., Trans.)
  99. Tanizaki, J. (1933). In Praise of Shadows. (Harper, T., & Seidensticker Edward, Trans.)
  100. Woolf, V. (1929). A Room of One's Own.
  101. Clifford, W. (1877). The Ethics of Belief.
  102. Habermas, J. (1980). Modernity: An Unfinished Project.
  103. Peirce, C. (1891). The Architecture of Theories.
  104. Felski, R. (2011). Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion.
  105. Percy, C. (1959). The Two Cultures.
  106. Hutcheon, L. (2013). Postmodernism.
  107. West, C. (1990). The New Cultural Politics of Difference.
  108. Hall, S. (1990). Cultural Identity and Diaspora.
  109. Phillips, A. (2015). Against Self-Criticism.
  110. Ainslie, G. (1999). The Dangers of Willpower.
  111. Debord, G. (1967). The Commodity as Spectacle. (Perlman, F., Trans.)
  112. Fukuyama, F. (1989). The End of History?.
  113. Huntington, S. (2000). The Clash of Civilizations?.
  114. Graeber, D. (2007). There Never Was a West.
  115. Appadurai, A. (1990). Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.
  116. Appiah, K. (2006). The Case for Contamination.
  117. Zakaria, F. (1997). The Rise of Illiberal Democracy.
  118. Barber, B. (1992). Jihad vs. McWorld.
  119. Nye, J. (1990). Soft Power.
  120. Mead, W. (2014). The Return of Geopolitics.
  121. Oppenheimer, J. (1953). Atomic Weapons and American Policy.
  122. Von Neumann, J. (1955). Can We Survive Technology?.
  123. Skinner, B. (1982). Why We Are Not Acting to Save The World.
  124. Joy, B. (2000). Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.
  125. Vinge, V. (1993). The Coming Technological Singularity.
  126. Land, N. (1994). Meltdown.
  127. Marinetti, F. (1909). The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism. (Flint, R., Trans.)
  128. Sterling, B. (2009). Don't look back: Bruce Sterling on F.T. Marinetti.
  129. Barbrook, R., & Cameron, A. (1995). The Californian Ideology.
  130. Kaplan, J. (1996). The Counter-Culture Writes Back.
  131. Laboria Cuboniks (2018). Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation.
  132. Srnicek, A., & Williams, N. (2013). #ACCELERATE: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics.
  133. Keynes, J. (1930). Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.
  134. Hume, D. (1748). Of the Original Contract.
  135. Berlin, I. (1969). Two Concepts of Liberty.
  136. MacCallum, G. (1967). Negative and Positive Freedom.
  137. Dworkin, R. (1978). Liberalism.
  138. MacIntyre, A. (1981). The Nature of the Virtues.
  139. Shklar, J. (1989). The Liberalism of Fear.
  140. Greenwald, A. (1980). The Totalitarian Ego.
  141. Kahneman, D. (2003). Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics.
  142. Katsikopoulos, K. (2014). Bounded rationality: the two cultures.
  143. Simon, H. (1955). A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice.
  144. Schelling, T. (1956). An Essay on Bargaining.