Cultural connections
In 1842, after a series of military defeats through the course of the First Opium War, the Chinese Qing dynasty signed the Nanjing Treaty with Great…
Connection
Essays and ideas exploring relationships, belonging, loneliness, community, and what it means to connect with others.
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13 questions: Holly Lawford-Smith
What is your demon? Misanthropy. Luckily I am also an introvert so I can mostly keep it obscured from view. What is the most important part…
NFN: Silent networks
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed…
NFN: Art <--> Science
“A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,…
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 20th-century…
The Connection edition
“In nature everything is connected, everything is interwoven, everything changes with everything, everything merges from one into another.” – Gotthold Lessing In an age…
Heartspace
I’ve recently become aware that my friendship group is shrinking. And not by design. It’s that classic middle-aged, caught-between-two-poles dilemma that is to blame. Between caring…
