Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. His most recent works are Singular Creatures: Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism (2022), The Ethics of Architecture (2021), On Risk (2020), and Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface (2019), which won the Erving Goffman Prize in media ecology. His columns and essays appear in the New York Times, Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, the Literary Review of Canada, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and Harper’s, among others.
21 电子书 Mark Kingwell
Mark Kingwell: Measure Yourself Against the Earth
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 …
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Mark Kingwell: Fail Better
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 hum …
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Joshua Glenn & Mark Kingwell: The Idler’s Glossary
‘Dawdler.’ ‘Layabout.’ ‘Shit-heel.’ ‘Loser.’ For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, which is to say ever since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, people who work hav …
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Joshua Glenn: The Wage Slave’s Glossary
When The Idler’s Glossary was released in October 2008 the world was on the cusp of experiencing its greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Depending on your sense of irony, this was …
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Mark Kingwell: Unruly Voices
“Mark Kingwell is a beautiful writer, a lucid thinker and a patient teacher … His insights are intellectual anchors in a fast-changing world.”—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo Meet the “fast zombie’ …
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Mark Kingwell: Concrete Reveries
In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate t …
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Mark Kingwell: Practical Judgments
What does it mean to be both a professor of philosophy and a public intellectual in an age when every CEO is hailed as an intellectual, every adman a visionary? When the opinions of TV pundits and ” …
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Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Kuwabara Payne Mc Kenna Blumberg Architects, founded in 1987 in Toronto, is one of most innovative architectural offi ces in North America today. They have made a name for themselves both for their i …
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Mark Kingwell: Wish I Were Here
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 sear …
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Mark Kingwell: On Risk
With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it? As we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, consider …
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Mark Kingwell: Ich wünschte, ich wäre hier: Langeweile im Zeitalter des Internets
Langeweile ist eine der geläufigsten menschlichen Erfahrungen, trotzdem scheint sie sich beharrlich einem vollständigen Verständnis zu entziehen. Wir alle wissen, wie es sich anfühlt, gelangweilt zu …
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Mark Kingwell: Ethics of Architecture
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 …
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Mark Kingwell: Ethics of Architecture
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 …
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€23.45
Joshua Glenn & Mark Kingwell: Adventurer’s Glossary
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 advent …
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Joshua Glenn & Mark Kingwell: Adventurer’s Glossary
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 advent …
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€19.33
Mark Kingwell: Singular Creatures
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 scenar …
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Mark Kingwell: Singular Creatures
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 scenar …
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€28.32
Mark Kingwell: Wish I Were Here
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 sear …
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Mark Kingwell: Question Authority
Philosopher Mark Kingwell thinks about thinking for yourself in an era of radical know-it-all-ism. “Question authority, ” the popular 1960s slogan commanded. “Think for yourself.” But what started as …
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