Art
William Kentridge In Praise of Shadows
The pursuit of truth should not lead us to totalitarian certainty and William Kentridge proposes that art practice is the key to holding illusion and insight in balance. (read more)
philosophy
Sound
Is God Dead? Ben Caplan Takes Stock
The sense of historical evolution removes from us a responsibility of safeguarding the hard-won victories of the last 100 years… interview with Hirsute folksinging historian Ben Caplan (read more)
News
Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir
Adrian Piper, on Personal Identity, Art and Teaching (read more)
News
Philosophy and The God of Bleak Things
Russian Oligarch has written a philosophy book he hopes will turn out to be a best seller, writes Matthew Moore, Media Correspondent in The Times, 28th June 2018. Being an oligarch, the writer of the (read more)
Art
Nestor Pestana Speculative Designer
Nestor Pestana is a speculative designer making work that explores the modern world through a philosophers eyes. (read more)
Society
The Space That Holds the Stars
Professor Bobby Acharya on the Depth of Dimensions in Physics and Mathematics (read more)
Society
Escaping the Pursuit of Happiness
It is no shame to seek sanctuary from the vanity-lousy imps of the collective mind (read more)
Society
Slavoj Zizek and Will Self In Conversation
Two of the West’s most dangerous thinkers go head to pointy head (read more)
Society
Mastering Fear: A User Guide
What if fear could be used not as a wall, but as a gate? (read more)
Society
Politics? Environment? In the end, all is transitory.
The human heart, an inveterate time-traveler, knows its way through the honey-hived portals of time. (read more)
Art
President Trump, Napoleon and The Eclipse of Dignity
Does history, art or philosophy offer any survival tips for the incoming US presidency? (read more)
Society
Have An Imaginative Christmas
Famine, War, Greed. We can fix this. Just add a more rigorous imagination. (read more)
Art
Escaping the Vortex: Would Wyndham Lewis Have Approved?
Vorticism’s urge to cut away the fat of modern life remains valid today (read more)
Art
Blasted Feminism: Group X, Wyndham Lewis, and Women
Not one to court populist acclaim, Wyndham Lewis looked upon feminism with a mixture of admiration and scorn (read more)
Society
We Are Infinite Song: Consolations of the Soul
As 2016 enters its final phase, remember: we are as much infinite song as we are earthen flesh (read more)
Art
Wyndham Lewis, Grayson Perry, David Baddiel and Masculinity
With power comes reponsibility, as Wyndham Lewis (and Spiderman) knew well. Art is power, not voyeurism. (read more)
Society
Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells (Part Two)
150 years after his birth, the influence of H.G. Wells on contemporary art is still being felt. (read more)
Features
Saw it Coming. Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells
On the 150th anniversary of his birth, H.G. Wells continues to inspire. (read more)
Society
Mantra for Fulfilled Living: Battling distraction, addiction and domination
Be weak, for strength in a violent world is an ignoble tool (read more)
Features
When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night
By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness. (read more)
Society
Move Both Directions at Once: Traversing the Greed-Deranged Earth of Neoliberal Capitalism
Our trajectory must be halted; it is crucial that we become waylaid by the pull of a force larger than ourselves (read more)
Society
A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism
fter one presents a cogent critique of capitalism, one is likely to hear the following as a reply from the propagandized, good citizens of corporate state-levied economic despotism (as, in fact, I have this very (read more)
Society
The Ecocidal Feedback Loop of Consumerism
cocide. Methane feedback loops. And perpetual, low-grade war for the planet’s resources that will render her hostile to human life. (Can you blame her?) This is the criteria of our time. Thus descends an enveloping, (read more)
Society
Watching: Bourdieu [Vid]
Sociology is a Martial Art follows the day to day mental life of Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist at the forefront of Post-structuralist theory until is death in 2002. (read more)
Society
Applied Carpe Diem – Living and Dying with ALS
To fully appreciate life, we also need to understand and appreciate death (read more)
Society
Geoff Thompson : The Caretaker
Were it not for occasional cultural references or linguistic signposts, The Caretaker could indeed be mistaken for an established liturgical text. (read more)
Society
Patriotism and Silence
How can the U.S. not be a haunted land? The country’s blood-soaked soil chants songs of lamentation. (read more)
Society
Imagination in a Soulless Age
Often a collapse, a breakdown, a depression—some sort of unsolvable crisis is required before the soul’s message is heard.
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News
Mindfulness starts at School
Mindfulness at school reduces likelihood of depression-related symptoms in adolescents (read more)
Society
Locomotion
The trick of getting a lift is not in persuading someone to stop. It is in being at exactly the right place at the right time such that the person who would give you a lift and is heading your way just happens to be passing. Being in the right place at the right time. The Taoist rule of thumb. (read more)