One of the great virtues of Confucianism was its suppleness. Western political thought tended to be rather brittle; as soon as the state became corrupt, everything ceased to make sense. Confucianism a...
Near Amy, Randy can see another silt-covered boulder near the surface, maybe six feet away. He gathers himself and leaps towards it. But it topples under the impact of his foot and sends him splashing...
Nacida en Nueva York de padres huidos de la represión política en Chile.
My men think you are dead now, and won’t waste balls on you, Jack said. In fact I have let you live, but for one purpose only: so that you can make your way back to Paris and tell them the following:...
In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life. Your life up to this point has given you all the experience you nee...
If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from...
I mean, who wants to be the fucking goddess of macrame?
I get it, Richard said. But is that all we are? Just digital Crips and Bloods?
I don't know how my face conveyed that information, or what kind of internal wiring in my grandmother's mind enabled her to accomplishthis incredible feat. To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.Co...
Godspeed? Godspeed! What kind of a thing is that to say to a fucking galley slave?
Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.
Didn't happen anymore. Pizza delivery is a major industry. A managed industry. People went to CosaNostra Pizza University four years just to learn it. Came in its doors unable to write an English sent...
Actually, I’ve been thinking about that, Tristan said, and finally sat down again. It’s the dog that didn’t bark.
Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences, because he reads into it an assertion that he, the nerd, does not already know the information bein...
When you say ‘plugged it in,’ could you please tell me everything you plugged into it? Peter had now dropped, improbably, into a polite, clinical mode, like a customer service rep in a Bangalore cubic...
What are you going to say to the Maternal Organism? Dinah asked, as Ivy rummaged in the back of a storage bin for her bottle of tequila. Ivy stiffened for a moment, then pulled out the bottle and swun...
There is one universe, by the definition of universe. It is not the cosmos we see through our eyes and our telescopes—that is but a single Narrative, a thread winding through a Hemn space shared by ma...
Therapies administered included but were not limited to: turning things off, then on again; picking them up a couple of inches and then dropping them; turning off nonessential appliances in this and o...
The social structure of any nation-state is ultimately determined by its security arrangements.
The revolution proceeded routinely and according to the rules of networked 21st-century protest.