Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.
Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose. - Mark Kingwell
Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.
- Mark Kingwell
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens. - Mark Kingwell
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. - Mark Kingwell
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.
War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is st… - Mark Kingwell
War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is st…
We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we … - Mark Kingwell
We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we …
We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civi… - Mark Kingwell
We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civi…
All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberati… - Mark Kingwell
All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberati…
If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg! - Mark Kingwell
If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!
We are capitalism made flesh. - Mark Kingwell
We are capitalism made flesh.
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