We have come a long way, but we have much more work to do.
Alison Rand | Oct 13, 2025
An excerpt from Didier Eribon's book "The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman," a personal and philosophical reflection on the question of old age as a limit concept of Western thought.
Didier Eribon | Oct 7, 2025
Esolangs, or esoteric programming languages, highlight the hidden metaphors and conventions that structure mainstream programming.
Daniel Temkin | Sep 25, 2025
The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums.
Samuel Jay Keyser | Aug 19, 2025
Eye makers for millennia have been trying to re-create the expressionist power of the human body’s most complex and emotionally meaningful visible organ.
Dan Roche | Aug 5, 2025
For one strange year in the 18th century, flaunting a false pregnancy was all the rage.
Isabel Davis | Jul 14, 2025
Writing starts with flow, but it’s sustained by discipline, revision, and grit.
Keith Sawyer | Jul 11, 2025
Magic realism may be what we need to break free from design’s overly rational futures.
Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby | Jul 7, 2025
Reflections on Harriet Jacobs’s loophole of retreat — and my mother’s personal archive of memories.
Sandra Jackson-Dumont | Jun 27, 2025
“The Satie life contains so much murk; his music sparkles with riverine clarity.”
Ian Penman | Jun 8, 2025
