The art of conflict
If there were a word to sum up the human condition for South Korean artist Daehyun Kim, it would be conflict. It’s a topic…
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A clear look
“What we can know, and what we can understand, is so influenced by our location in time that it is impossible for us to…
Seen and unseen
There’s something deflating about the first time you spot a nebula through a telescope. You’re standing outside in the dark and the cold, squinting…
Invisible experience
In our current cultural moment, when the boundaries between public and private have been largely erased, Calle’s investigations are prescient. In…
NFN: To see or not to see
“So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection…
Observation is all we have
Zan Boag: What does the word ‘observation’ evoke for you as a psychologist and a philosopher of mind, whose work has been about observing…
The fourth wall
It seems that Erving Goffman was not a nice man. He liked to ruffle feathers and watch the fallout. One time he invited a…
Life without anger
It’s rarely a good idea to take advice from a philosopher. (And yes, I’m a philosopher offering you that advice.) But when your brother…
Impossible choices
There is a famous paradox, the paradox of Buridan’s Ass, named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan. Imagine an ass which is…
Life is connection
“All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connected as it were by some relationship.” - Cicero …
The limits of imagination
“Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas furnished by the internal and…
13 questions with ChatGPT
ChatGPT in conversation with Kelly Truelove, based on the "13 questions" section in each edition of New Philosopher magazine. Kelly Truelove: Provide an…
