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Truth and Imagination

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Against History: A Lesson from Simone Weil

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Catherine Brown

Why Do We Fall in Love With Fictional Characters?

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Edward McDougall

Spirited Away with Heidegger

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Beauty is not just subjective

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Trauma. Chaos. Control. Repeat

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Creativity's dance with death

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Peter Carruthers

The crisis of creativity

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Reimagining creativity

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Distraction, flow and the creative mind

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Brian Eno, Ben Oswald

Brian Eno: creativity and the future

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Iain McGilchrist

The right brain is essential to creativity

Creativity is about rebellion, not productivity

thinking is a kind of dancing

Kimerer LaMothe

Thinking is a kind of dancing

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High Irony

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Off Peak Dreams

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What is Afrofuturism?

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Styling the self

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Coleridge and the unconscious

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Simon Critchley

We are all tyrants

Science fiction is philosophy

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Paul March-Russell

When the Machine Stops

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Kevin S. Decker

Nietzsche, Dune and the power of religion

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Josephine von Zitzewitz

The uses and abuses of the 'Russian soul'

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Orwell, Huxley and the path to truth

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Florian Mussgnug

Daydreaming of apocalypse

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Beyond the Hero

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Margherita Volpato

The death of the unreliable narrator

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David Nowell Smith

AI poetry reveals the truth of the world

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Nabokov and why the moral act is the free act