amor mundi

David Harvey : I’ve tried to think in very simple terms, which is that those people who build and sustain a city should have a right to res...

I like my art revolutionary, my administration liberal, and my engineering conservative.

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot to this post , in response to the whining of a Robot Cultist who has been sniping at me for years and rea...

The lesser of two evils is still evil, but the difference between them can still make a difference.

Also published at the World Future Society . Nobody thinks that pouring more sand onto a pile of sand -- or even pouring more abacuses ont...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot : As an atheist and a democrat I won't deny an affinity for the slogan "no gods, no masters,...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot, longtime and stubborn sparring partner "Summerspeaker" asks: If you support structures that d...

Anarchists recoil in alarm from my proposal that violence both precedes and exceeds the state, and my conclusion from this that the advocate...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot, a reader thinks I am talking nonsense: Nonviolent statism is a contradiction in terms. Please ditch one ...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot, "JimF" said: I do not happen to think that cryonics should be **illegal**. I think people shou...

I posted this comment in the midst of the discussion occasioned by my recent anti-cryonics post at the World Future Society. There is plent...

io9 has covered the Kim Suozzi cryonics story . I found especially interesting a comment there bemoaning, "a shocking amount of negativ...

Man, the comments accumulating under that last post are getting to be must read. I'll snip from just one of them (click the link to r...

Again, upgraded and adapted from the Moot, Max More (now verified) responds: We have provided evidence for the reasonableness of cryonics (a...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot , "Max More" (conceivably, after all, an online impersonator) said : Predictably you throw arou...

Apparently Ayn Raelian "Extropian" transhumanoid Max More ("Max More," Very Serious!) was offended when Adam Smith concl...

In Wake Up, Deathist! You DO Want to Live 10,000 Years! , Robot Cultist Hank Pellissier argues that magic would be cool if it were real as a...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot... I ask a Question: Is it even possible to separate assessments of reasonableness from political as...

From an exchange upgraded and adapted from the Moot to this post, Mitchell said: "nobody has ever been willing (or able) to engage Da...

Citizens, take pride in a moment of civilization to which you have contributed! All this for less than one half of one percent of the federa...