Global events such as pandemics can momentarily focus attention on a fundamentally overlooked pre-existing human condition: the sheer inequality of how individuals in power decide who lives and who dies.
John Troyer | Sep 13, 2021
How visual culture can be mobilized to address the most altering event in the story of humanity.
Alexis L. Boylan | Sep 8, 2021
The story of teaching machines is deeply intertwined with Skinner’s psycho-technologies, which laid a foundation from which education technology has never entirely broken.
Audrey Watters | Sep 3, 2021
Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.
William Shutkin | Aug 31, 2021
Modern authoritarian regimes don’t attempt total, absolute control. Their censorship is more selective and calibrated — and thus more resilient.
Cherian George and Sonny Liew | Aug 26, 2021
An interview with one of the most creative guitarists of our time, excerpted from Joel Harrison's book 'Guitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Players.'
Joel Harrison | Aug 24, 2021
The Afrofuturism movement within sci-fi may be equal to this moment, in part because it grows out of a history of displacement, atrocity, and instability.
Wade Roush | Aug 19, 2021
Decisions about food and farming have always been decisions about how to structure the world.
Zoë Kopp-Weber | Aug 13, 2021
Stretching the mind across time can help us become more responsible planetary stewards and foster empathy across generations.
Vincent Ialenti | Aug 10, 2021
Human rights video activism is closely tied to the struggle to assert voice.
Sandra Ristovska | Aug 6, 2021