Why would a watch collector need or want to understand the notoriously vague and confusing concept of postmodernism? To understand postmodernism, we must first understand modernism. In the late 1800s, ...

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When I taught physics at Yale in the 1980s and ’90s, my colleagues and I took pride in our position on “science hill,” looking down on the humanities scholars in the intellectual valleys below as they ...

Technology and the future of work / Stanley Aronowitz -- Media, technology, and the market : the interacting dynamic / Herbert I. Schiller -- From virtual cyborgs to biological time bombs : ...