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Novelist, science writer, editor of Arc, New Scientist's magazine about the future

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Poetry and the Transmission of Errors

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Myth and Modernity

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Truth and Imagination

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In Praise of Sci-Fi

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High Irony

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Language at the End of the World

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Off Peak Dreams

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Against History: A Lesson from Simone Weil

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Massimo Pigliucci

Beard vs Taleb: Scientism and Historical Inquiry

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Jeanette Bicknell

Sincerity and Superstars

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Kierkegaard's Existential Lover

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Catherine Brown

Why Do We Fall in Love With Fictional Characters?

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Catherine Brown

Laughing and Crying About the Second World War

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Edward McDougall

Spirited Away with Heidegger

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Jeremy Lefkowitz

Listening to Aesop’s Animals

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Life As a Work of Art

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Lisa Bortolotti

What's Your Story?

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What is Afrofuturism?

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Beckett's Political Imagination

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How We Think of Our Lives

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On Rationality and Nonsense

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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

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Nature is a jazz band, not a machine

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Beauty is not just subjective

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The new world of metamodernism

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Edward Castronova

Life is a squid game

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Life is not a squid game

Science fiction is philosophy