https://www.scmp.com/rss/514773/feed Adam Kirsch is an American poet and literary critic. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com “Man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.” With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences. Foucault’s central idea was that the ways we understand ourselves as human beings aren’t timeless or natural, no matter how much we take them for granted. Rather, the modern concept of “man” was invented in the 18th century, with the emergence of... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3208168/why-more-people-want-human-extinction-climate-change-ai-singularity-and-merging-cosmic-flow-data?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3208168/why-more-people-want-human-extinction-climate-change-ai-singularity-and-merging-cosmic-flow-data?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:15:11 +0000