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Shakespeare and the failures of language

Shakespeare and the failures of language

The master of language knew it ultimately fails us

Simon Palfrey
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In the age of tragedy, everyone's a sadomasochist

In the age of tragedy, everyone's a sadomasochist

We should not mix our pleasure with our pain

Paul Kottman
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The pursuit of beautiful theories is an obstacle to discovery

The pursuit of beautiful theories is an obstacle to discovery

Science must pursue ugly theories, not beautiful ones

Jane Forsey
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Gossip is a moral good

Gossip is a moral good

In defence of whisper networks

Karen C. Adkins
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Simone Weil, the attention economy, and the annihilation of autonomy

Simone Weil, the attention economy, and the annihilation of autonomy

Real attention recognises the self in the other

Kathryn Lawson
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Nietzsche vs the wellness industry

Nietzsche vs the wellness industry

Self-help will not cure a sick world

Jill Marsden
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Science gets sexual experience dangerously wrong

Sex needs rescuing from scientific imperialism

Paul Giladi
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The dangers of a sober society

How intoxication creates society

Edward Slingerland
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Psychedelic experience isn’t just brain chemistry

Not just a lightshow

Ricky Williamson
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A man with a shaved head and sunglasses, dressed in a white suit, appears against a green digital matrix backdrop, suggesting themes of technology and virtual reality.

Andrew Tate, Nietzsche and the Matrix

The dangers of the appearance–reality distinction

Alexis Papazoglou
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Anime is the philosophical medium of our time

Japan's answer to Western nihilism

Mike Benett
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A close-up of two people lying on a bed, with one person's hand gently tracing the other's torso, suggesting intimacy and connection.

Why Sexual Morality Doesn't Exist

We must get rid of ideas of what sex should be

Alan H. Goldman
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Art & AestheticsArrow Head

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Technology to fashion, originality is a myth

There is no such thing as novelty

Narain D. Batra
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Aristotle, reality TV, and why fiction reveals more than fact

Fiction uncovers something deeper than truth

Karen Simecek
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Dostoevsky, nihilism, and the fight for human nature

Russian nihilism on trial

Gary Saul Morson
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Thomas Mann and the fall of the West

Mann's masterpiece predicted liberalism's crisis

Oliver Adelson
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Pinker vs Nietzsche: Is music the basis of language?

Language is born out of music

Kathleen Higgins
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Narrative & RealityArrow Head

How Mahlers symphonies reclaimed Nietzsche from the far right

How Mahler's symphonies reclaim Nietzsche from the far right

A philosophy better expressed through music

Leah Batstone
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Experience moves beyond the self and beyond linear time

The philosophy of Clarice Lispector

Michael Marder
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History is never true, but it can be justified

How historians can do without truth

Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
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Philosophy must embrace poetry

How poetry captures the difficulty of reality

John Gibson
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Santa and the truth about lying

The trial of St Nick

Michael Kuznets
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Relationships & SexualityArrow Head

ai affairs and the end of romance

AI, intimacy, and the end of love

It’s not love, it’s extraction

Nolen Gertz
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Love is not a virtue

What bell hooks got wrong about love and healing

Omari Edwards
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Science gets sexual experience dangerously wrong

Sex needs rescuing from scientific imperialism

Paul Giladi
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What dating apps get wrong about your love life

The online dating dilemma

Andrés Abeliuk
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The limits of consent

Power, sex, and agency

Melissa Rees
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Society & CultureArrow Head

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In a post-truth world truth-seeking is more important than ever

Knowing is a moral act

Jason Baehr
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Truth is dead, and that's a good thing

The democratic dream of social media is still alive and kicking

Steve Fuller
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The internet is broken, here's how to fix it

The real internet revolution starts now

Maurizio Ferraris
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The psychedelic origins, and future, of Western thought

The psychedelic genealogy of morals

Ricky Williamson
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Cultural memory should not keep us stuck in the past

On the urge for public memorialization

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
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