The humanism of the past five hundred years is dead. Believing man was exceptional, it opened the abyss of extinction. A new approach requires the effort of all those who tear down convention in order to preserve what is meaningful—that is the preservation of not just environments, but myth, irrationality, autonomy, and adventure. Month to month, we set out to deliver the extremes of human knowledge and creative endeavour, assembling an international community: the perennial legends and emerging icons—scientists and novelists, philosophers and activists, architects and technologists, from the counterculture to the avant-garde—pioneering new ways of understanding ourselves and the Earth. isolarii take their name from the extinct genre of Venetian Renaissance 'island books'. Each is a ready-to-hand island; together, a growing archipelago—a world of many worlds, not a globe.