Walking past a bookstore today, I noticed this book prominently displayed in the front window. Two things struck me: first, I couldn't think of a more zeitgeist-y title; second, I love that a book about "the science and power of being alone" is co-written by three authors. :)

A lovely way to start a year! My favorite version of that argument is in #321 in Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft):

Christopher Newfield on how humanities research funding works (or doesn't).

Full article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Appropriately published on Nietzsche's 180th and Foucault's 98th birthday!