An excerpt from the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist’s 1991 book “Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture.”
Slavoj Žižek | Aug 15, 2025
How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests.
Telmo Pievani | Aug 12, 2025
A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.
Ben Collier | Aug 8, 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
Decades of global surveys point to a single, consistent foundation of well-being: our relationships.
Tim Lomas | Jul 31, 2025
Owen Flanagan explores how Buddhism reconciles meaning and science — without a creator, a soul, or supernatural scaffolding.
Owen Flanagan | Jul 28, 2025
What looks like minimalism in Kiarostami is something else entirely: a method for holding the unseen in view.
Joan Copjec | Jul 25, 2025
If there is no clear evidence of brain abnormalities in psychopathic persons, why do so many scientists keep portraying psychopathy as a neurodevelopmental disorder?
Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen | Jul 22, 2025
The evolutionary story behind meat consumption is more complicated — and less convincing — than it sounds.
Gidon Eshel | Jul 17, 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
