What does it mean to be human? Plenty of fat nonfiction books profess to hold the answer. It is to believe in what is only imaginary; it is to cook one’s food; it is to use language, or maybe contraception. The huge audience for such tomes – an old genre, but one rejuvenated in our time by the success of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens (2014) – speaks to a deep identity hunger in the modern alienated human of late capitalism. Who
Trigger Happy
Jun 15, 2023
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