Planetary Sapience by Benjamin Bratton “The Earth has very recently evolved a smart exoskeleton, a distributed sensory organ and cognitive layer capable of calculating things like: How old is the planet?” _...Read More_

"A scale to classify extraterrestrial civilizations reveals the necessity of rethinking energy and planetarity on Earth."

>"There is no escaping an interconnected world."

>"Imagine if we lived on a cube-shaped Earth. How would you find the shortest path around the world?"

“The pressure to produce more food, or at least to make more money from agriculture, is driving nations to clear forests and wetlands for farms and divert scant freshwater to grow crops in the desert, which will in turn drive more _...Read More_

“Almost every book event I did for Hollow, there would be one or two people at the back of the room, and they’d be really excited that I’d written this book, and I think really _...Read More_

"Schalansky is deeply sympathetic to her character’s yearnings, even when hinting that they are doomed to futility. "

"Nothing is going back to normal. The sun is setting on the global order. The world has tilted, and begun to fragment. _...Read More_