August 8, 2011
Place and Placelessness in America
In the 1990s, the mavens of high technology praised in breathless tones a new “placelessness.” Thanks to the...
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July 18, 2011
GPS and the End of the Road
Since the days of Jack Kerouac, the image of personal freedom has been the driver on the open road. What, then, should...
July 18, 2011
The Particularities of Place
Gertrude Stein’s famous line about the city of Oakland, California — that there is no “there” there — has...
July 18, 2011
The New Meaning of Mobility
What is “mobility” and what is it for? The word has commonly been used to describe upward movement on the...
July 18, 2011
Place-Conscious Transportation Policy
I started working at the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) in 1973, right out of college, as a civil...
July 18, 2011
The Rise of Localist Politics
Until very recently, the centralization of administrative power under expert control — what we might call, for...
July 18, 2011
Frog: A Tale of Home
From when one leaves his parent’s home at eighteen until one has a place of his own at whatever age, there isn’t...
July 18, 2011
Could Terrorists Exploit Synthetic Biology?
The emergence over the past decade of synthetic genomics, a set of methods for the synthesis of entire microbial...
July 18, 2011
Transitional Humanity
Human beings have always longed to transcend the suffering, finitude, and limits of embodied life. For some, this...
July 18, 2011
Psychology’s Magician
Algis Valiunas on the life and career of Carl Jung, mystic scientist of the mind