Flow and Peak Experience
Flow
On Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's discovery of optimal experience, the challenge-skill balance that produces absorption, and what it means to find an activity worth doing for its own sake
The Cartographer
The Architecture of Experience
Integrated Information Theory
On Giulio Tononi's attempt to make consciousness mathematically measurable, the paradoxes the phi calculus generates, and what happens when a theory follows its axioms without mercy
Sociology of Knowledge
The Social Construction of Reality
How consensus reality is not found but made — and who does the making
The Fine Print
The Shrinkwrap Gospel
A Legal History of the Click
The Captured Gnosis
The Confidence Man's Religion
L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics, and the Invention of a Gospel
The Ecologists
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson and the First Shot in the Ecological War
Decolonial Thought
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon and the Psychological Depth of the Colonial Wound
The Rebel Tradition
Mutual Aid
Peter Kropotkin and the Evolutionary Case Against the War of All Against All
The Other Economy
The Gift
On how gifts circulate and grow through obligation and community, while commodities end in isolated exchange and silence
The Architecture of Capital
The Commodity and Its Fetish
On how capitalism obscures the labor that creates value by presenting social relationships as relationships between things
Systems Theory
The Arrow and the Flame
On Ilya Prigogine, dissipative structures, and the discovery that chaos is not the enemy of order but its most creative condition
NDE Research
The Map of the Territory
On Raymond Moody, the book that opened a conversation medicine had been refusing to have, and the consistent structure of the near-death experience