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|April 11, 2017

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Taking seriously the idea that baseball is a study in failure—a very successful batter manages a base hit in just three of every ten attempts—Mark Kingwell argues that there is no better tutor of human failure’s enduring significance than…

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The Ethics Of Architecture

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|March 30, 2021

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A lively and accessible discussion of how architecture functions in a complex world of obligation and responsibility, with a preface offering specific discussion of architecture during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the special ethical obligations…

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Singular Creatures: Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism

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|October 15, 2022

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Anxiety about non-human intelligent machines is a longstanding theme of cultural production and consumption. Examples range from tales of golems and Frankenstein’s monster to the evil overlord scenarios of contemporary film and television franchises: Star Trek,…

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Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface

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|April 8, 2019

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Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this…

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The Adventurer's Glossary

Joshua Glenn

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|September 29, 2021

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Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of thrilling…

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On Risk

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|October 13, 2020

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Measure Yourself Against the Earth

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|October 15, 2015

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Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing Battlestar Galactica as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In Measure Yourself Against the Earth , he brings his heady mixture of critical intelligence…

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Extraordinary Canadians Glenn Gould

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|September 4, 2012

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Glenn Gould, one of the twentieth century’s most renowned classical musicians, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on mastering various media:…

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True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada

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|January 30, 2017

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Mark Kingwell is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He has published five books.

The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

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|November 27, 2001

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What does it mean to be a citizen in a world of fractured identities and crumbling nationalism-when people are withdrawing into consumerism, cultural separatism, and self-regarding isolation? Citizenship meets one of our deepest needs, the need to belong; it also…

The Best Canadian Essays 2018

Christopher Doda

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|November 1, 2018

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Featuring trusted series editor Christopher Doda and acclaimed guest editor Mark Kingwell, this tenth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. Culled from leading Canadian magazines and…

Stephen Appleby-Barr: The Pale Path