In a much-quoted viral Gawker article, writer Dan Brooks (2021) describes NFTs—short for nonfungible tokens and used primarily to denote digital pop-art that operates as cryptocurrency financial instruments—as combining “the nuanced social awareness of computer programmers with the soulful whimsy hedge fund managers. It is art people whose imaginations have been absolutely captured by new kind ...

This elementary volume of bacterial physiology should serve as a stimulating introduction to the subject. The text reads smoothly and is written in such a manner as to excite the imagination of the uninitiated reader. Coverage of the subject matter is comprehensive except for the absence of a section on feedback control mechanisms. For the most part the text has been brought up to date, and eno...

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel We is one of the most important “UtopianDystopian” novels of the first half of the 20th century and was originally considered a criticism of the Communism established in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, during the so-called War Communism, with the loss of revolutionary thrust and new stifling social rules . As a result, critics have seen We as a dystopian novel, i...

At the center of a socialist alternative to capitalism, in whatever way socialism is understood, is the problem of economic institutions, specifically the social organization of power over the allocation of resources and control of production and distribution. In statist conceptions of socialism such power and control operates primarily through the state, in the strongest version through the di...