Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine in New York. He is the author or co-author of seventeen books of political, cultural and aesthetic theory, including the bestsellers Better Living (1998), The World We Want (2000), Concrete Reveries (2008), and Glenn Gould (2009). His articles on politics, architecture and art have appeared in many academic journals, including the Journal of Philosophy and the Harvard Design Magazine, and in more than 40 mainstream publications. Kingwell’s work has been translated into ten languages. He has held visiting posts at Cambridge University, the University of California, Berkeley, and at the City University of New York, where he was the Weissman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Humanities in 2002. His most recent books are the essay collections Unruly Voices (2012) and Measure Yourself Against the Earth (2015). His current research concerns the political importance of art, boredom, and the idea of the interface in everyday technological experience.

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