"As you can see, I haven’t stopped being a painter. Now I draw on chance."
Trevor Stark | Jun 29, 2023
An excerpt from “Memory,” a primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
Fergus Craik and Larry Jacoby | Jun 26, 2023
An excerpt from "Thousands of Mirrors," cult critic Ian Penman's kaleidoscopic study of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Ian Penman | Jun 22, 2023
Now that we’ve discovered exoplanets, can we detect the moons that might orbit them? And might life exist on them?
Chris Impey | Jun 20, 2023
Our broken definition of play is drawn from a white European philosophical tradition that has harmed and erased people of color.
Aaron Trammell | Jun 15, 2023
In 12th-century Paris, a Scottish monk wrote a biblical commentary and inadvertently invented architectural drawing as we know it.
Karl Kinsella | Jun 12, 2023
Alternate wargames express the different ways we might begin to see contemporary global challenges.
Mary Flanagan | Jun 6, 2023
Carmel Raz explores how historical links between nerves and vibration have shaped modern neural sciences.
Carmel Raz | Jun 2, 2023
An excerpt from François Caradec’s book “Dictionary of Gestures.”
François Caradec | May 29, 2023
As an object, “TV Bra” perfectly encapsulates Paik’s artistic goals, Moorman’s brilliance as a performer, their personal history, and its cultural context.
Joan Rothfuss | May 22, 2023
The quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with surveillance capitalism but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the 19th century.
Chris Salter | May 17, 2023
Twenty-five years before our era of fake news and celebrity pseudoscience, the star actor teamed up with Montel Williams to promote an unfounded conspiracy.
Robert P. Crease | May 15, 2023
