We tend to see the future as caused by the past. But biology for example shows us that causes can be in the future. The growth of a child is in part the fulfilment of models. This is true organically and culturally. In my forthcoming book, Being and Neonness, a revised version of L’être et…

No matter what neo-conservatives would have you believe about universal archetypes and the perenity of human worlds, social reality is not a true universal, but a slowly built construct of convention. What is a city – a polis? It’s a world, a co-created environment, a network of realizations “knotted” together to define a territory that…