Ideas to change your life The obsolete human being By William Watkin Now Take one last look at your smartphone. You probably regard it as the cutting edge […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Humans of the Anthropocene By Roy Scranton. You can walk to the beach from where we are staying. It’s a long peel of dun-coloured […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Human trafficking By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore A man walks into a mall. His eyes scan the crowds. Finally, he spots what he’s looking […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Doing away with death By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Caught in the web By Antonia Case “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Defining ourselves By Ai Weiwei Many of the problems in the world today, when one reflects upon them, call for an answer […] NP23 digital: Being
Environment A new human era Earth has lost half of its wild animals in the last forty years. What does it mean to be philosophical […] NP23 digital: Being
Ideas to change your life A recipe for disaster Western industrial civilisation is eating itself stupid. Cookery programs bloat the television schedules, cookbooks fill the bookshop windows, and celebrity […] NP23 digital: Being
Money & Consumerism Things for the future I’d been sitting in John Gulzari’s living room for more than an hour when he suddenly jumped up and rushed […] NP23 digital: Being
Society & Culture Not eating things There’s never been a better time in history to be the kind of person who enjoys not eating things. In […] NP23 digital: Being
Philosophy and you Are we getting smarter? Your typical adult from 1900 was pretty dumb, by today’s standards. Yank one off the street and run them through […] NP23 digital: Being
Life Human engineering You know the situation is getting desperate when three bioethicists propose genetically modifying humans to reduce our environmental impact. In […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Who are we behind closed doors? In the midst of a nuclear war, an evacuation plane from England crash lands on a deserted, paradisiacal island in […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Are you just a story? In the early 1980s, a new idea began to find its way from philosophy of history and into the raging […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human The commercial self It’s an ancient human law and it makes us do extraordinary things. Author Tom Wolfe calls it serial immortality; it’s […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Would you upload yourself? By Russell Blackford If our minds are essentially what happens when our brains perform certain kinds of complex computations, then […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Do you really know yourself? “Know thyself,” said the philosophers. No problem, said the rest of us. Self-help, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, inner self, outer self – […] NP23 digital: Being
Illusions Perception and reality By Keith Wilson Taken at face value, the picture of reality suggested by modern science seems radically opposed to the […] NP23 digital: Being
Life The project of being alive It’s not the first time that a movie has been shown to a vegetative audience but for some reason the […] NP23 digital: Being
