13 questions: Vincent Cespedes
What is your demon? My demon is digital distractions, serving as a modern mind’s junk food, masking the deeper malaise of societal indifference and disconnection. What…
Loss
Essays and ideas exploring loss, grief, absence, memory, resilience, and the ways we live with what is no longer there.
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The asymmetry of loss
While on holiday in Vienna in 1833, the English poet Arthur Henry Hallam died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage, aged just twenty-two. Over the next seventeen…
Remember the dead
In the late 19th century, Boston photographer William H. Mumler posed his subjects by a window in his studio – grieving fathers, distraught lovers, even Mary…
Transformative grief
Zan Boag: I’d like to start with the various ways that one can grieve. I’d like to get a definition of the grieving process, if I…
Outsourced memories
There is a tradition in philosophy that makes our memories the core of our personal being, essential to what we are, and the basis of our…
The game of life
When I was growing up in the 1980s, my family and I sometimes played a board game called ‘The Game of Life’. Rather than throwing dice,…
New Philosopher #42 ‘Loss’
“Great lords, wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.” - William Shakespeare If being wise is…
