An excerpt from Bini Adamczak’s book “Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future.”
Bini Adamczak | Apr 27, 2021
A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.
David E. Nye | Apr 20, 2021
What a long-forgotten dispute over women’s access to public toilets in 19th-century England says about moral reform.
Robert Baker | Apr 16, 2021
If history is any indication, an unstoppable wave of competitive innovations is heading our way again.
Per Espen Stoknes | Apr 9, 2021
The more we expose ourselves to the prose of the victims, the more visibility we give them.
Gabrielle Decamous | Apr 6, 2021
From Challand’s ‘Normal Bicycle’ to Wilson’s Avatar 2000.
Tony Hadland and Hans-Erhard Lessing | Mar 25, 2021
The sublime underlies the nobility of Classicism, the awe of Romantic nature, and the terror of the Gothic.
Simon Morley | Mar 22, 2021
The story of a numerical system nearly consigned to oblivion.
Stephen Chrisomalis | Mar 18, 2021
Experience is in unexpected places, including in all animals, large and small, and perhaps even in brute matter itself.
Christof Koch | Mar 15, 2021
It may take years for awe to bear its fruit, but the self holds something in readiness for a future time.
Shierry Weber Nicholsen | Mar 11, 2021