Torgeir Fjeld (Roehampton): Spectacular Sports as Desire Engine. A year after the Green Movement in Iran, Tamzin Baker, an Iranian-American artist with 44 flags, wonders where to call home. How the hell did Buzz Bissinger — a Pulitzer Prize winner, for chrissakes — fall in love with Twitter? What happens when an anarchist creates rules for football? Laura Spinney heads to Switzerland's International Centre for Research on Anarchism to find out. An article on defining canonical literature: That which is portrayed on fake-book wallpaper. Nathan Destro created a “personal space protector” to keep strangers at a distance. A review of Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model by Laura Levine Frader. Gabriel Boylan reviews In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise by George Prochnik (and more). You're so predictable: Randomness does not rule our lives, contrary to what scientists had previously assumed. Why do women leave science and engineering? An anatomy of modern frigidity: With young people today caught between a world of advertorial eroticism and a reanimated liberal puritanism, Laurie Penny explores our capitalist erotic orthodoxy and asks what a genuinely sexual counter-culture would involve. More on Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell. Allow yourself to wonder: Are we Earthlings really alone? Despite being hailed by the famed Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as “the most important thinker of the second half of the nineteenth century,” Wilhelm Dilthey remains an obscure figure to the Anglo-American world. Jack Cashill writes a good book, but he's insane. An interview with Barry Chevannes, author of Rastafari: Roots and Ideology. A review of Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience by Stephen S. Hall.
