From Cosmos and History, a special issue on "What is Life", including an introduction, Andrew Taggart (Wisconsin): Unbounded Naturalism; Helena N. Knyazeva (RAS): The Riddle of a Human Being: A Human Singularity of Co-evolutionary Processes; Tim Themi (Deakin): How Lacan's Ethics Might Improve Our Understanding of Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism: The Neurosis and Nihilism of a "Life" Against Life; Michael Zimmerman (Colorado): The Singularity: A Crucial Phase in Divine Self-Actualization?; Suzi Adams (Monash): Towards a Post-Phenomenology of Life: Castoriadis' Naturphilosophie; and Murray Code (Guelph): Life, Thought, and Morality: Or, Does Matter Really Matter? A new possibility of life: In their efforts of marketing and conversion, both globalization and the religious are forms of total war disguised as peace. Barbie Latza Nadeau goes behind the co-ed murder scandal. Is it better to get a Pulitzer or the Booker, and does a prize from Barnes & Noble mean more than a Nobel? As cities go from two papers to one, there's talk of zero. Ivars Peterson on rock-paper-scissors for winners. When libertarians cry: Has Pajamas Media betrayed its original mission by going MSM? From PopMatters, a review of a new edition of The Joy of Sex; and it’s only against the red light of "Dirrtiness" that the chastity movement could ever have struck us as fresh.
