Sublime

How we think about learning, cohesion, time, youth, aliveness, nature, and value is being upended. The legacy frameworks that have defined these core human conditions are giving way to new, emerging narratives.

Orchids are native to Florida, but you’d hardly know, as they’ve been rendered so exotic in our popular culture as to be wholly unfamiliar to us.

One way to make sense of the biodiversity crisis would simply be to accept it. The history of life has, after all, been punctuated by extinction events, both big and very, very big. The impact that brought an end to the Cretaceous wiped out something like seventy-five percent of all species on earth. No one wept for them, and, eventually, new speci

In this chapter, I will develop the analytics to grasp what I am calling global modernity and in particular to grasp the crisis of sustainability that it has produced.

As my discussion of Kant and the modern universalism of Marxism and modernization theory reveals, reasoned analysis also requires a sacralization of the telos – here the utopian goal at the end of history. Faith and sacrifice remain necessary for human salvation. At the same time, the radical transcendence of the scientific human tends to blind us