Victorian Technoscience, and More
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Flip open the last issue of Bookforum. This is not a dying magazine. So why is it closing? ... more »
For the Victorians, progress was “natural and built into the order of things.” The “technoscience” they promoted is with us still... more »
Justin E.H. Smith, well into midlife, has had his last swallow of alcohol. That particular search for transcendence…