How the fight over what it means to be human has dramatically changed

Humans are the dominant species on a dying planet, and we’re still clinging to the idea that we can think our way out, invent our way out, maybe even upload our way out.  But what if the solution isn’t more mastery or more control? What if the only way to survive is to become something else entirely? Mark C. Taylor is a philosopher, a cultural critic, and the author of After the Human. It’s a sweeping, sometimes dizzying book, one that moves from Hegel to quantum physics to the ethics of soil and fungi. It’s packed with hand-drawn diagrams and photos of dirt and discussions of philo