“We are the music makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams…” “Each age is a dream that is dying,Or one that is coming to birth.” Arthur O’Shaughnessy, in his great Ode, captured something uncannily like our moment: history does not move only through institutions, arguments, and systems. It also moves through imagination, desire, vision, and world-making….
Is transhumanism the great promise of technoscience or “the world’s most dangerous idea”? The debate is an extremely fruitful field for philosophical and theological inquiry.
In a recent New York Times webcast, Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat; 3-time Pullitzer prize winner), Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel Prize, Economics, 2001), and Ted Koppel discussed globalization and how it is changing the world. The excellent discussion ranged from international politics to economic development. Through a panorama of disciplines and perspectives, it was not…
What’s going on…? In November, Metanexus released the first issue of our interim publication, Where’s My Spiral? It had been a while since you had received a Spiral (newsletter) and, while we were busy overhauling our website and our publications, we thought you would like to know why you hadn’t heard from us about the…