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The no-human future
Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon. Nick Land glimpsed something much darker.
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7 hours ago
The joy of autism
Yes, we’re in a world of our own: for the autistic mind, it’s a place of intense curiosity, deep focus and sensory delight.
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2 days, 7 hours ago
What shape is the Earth?
The extraordinary challenge of determining the true shape of Earth reveals the deep value of measurement to scientific progress.
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3 days, 7 hours ago
Artist of sympathy and cruelty
Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments.
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1 week, 6 days ago
Flickering Enlightenment
Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique.
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2 weeks ago
The embattled witnesses
The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses.
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2 weeks, 2 days ago
Can ecosystems malfunction?
We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts.
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2 weeks, 3 days ago
Being small
Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace.
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2 weeks, 6 days ago
Make immigration boring
The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs.
Aeon audio explores the most…
3 weeks ago
Maritime China
Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls.
Aeon audio explores the mo…
3 weeks, 2 days ago