Adrian Noble
The recipient of over 20 Olivier Award nominations, Adrian Noble is a former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since leaving the company in 2002 major productions have included Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the West End.
The recipient of over 20 Olivier Award nominations, Adrian Noble is a former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since leaving the company in 2002 major productions have included Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the West End.
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The Beautiful Universe
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The Known, The Strange and the New
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Beyond the Machine
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Heraclitus' Dream
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The Mystery of Music
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Banksy and the Media Barons
Julian Stallabrass charts the rise of a generation of media-savvy artists raking in millions.
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The Secrets of the World
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Duchamp's Deception
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Thinking Differently
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The Laughing Philosopher
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Language, Metaphor, and Reality
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Con Art
Should we redefine conceptual art?
Unexplained Events
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On Ugliness
Why 'ugliness' is a virtue
Plato Not Prozac
Philosophy's therapeutic power
Becoming Human
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Beauty Bites Back
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Fantasy and Reality
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The Sex Lives of Philosophers
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Music's Mystery
The secret to music's emotion
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The End of Ideas
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The Ultimate Map of Reality
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Artist Susan Hiller looks back on her career with Serpentine co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Broken Beauty
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Thinking the Unthinkable
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The Best is to Come
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After Postmodernity
What is the Power of Art?
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Beyond Reality
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Dying for Dior
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The Elegant Universe
Is truth always simple?
Everywhere and Nowhere
Are binary oppositions real?
The If Machine
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On the Air with Annie Nightingale
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Art and the Artful
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The Good, the Bad and the Artist
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Beyond Truth and Falsehood
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Is Beauty Back?
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The Naked Truth
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Stranger Than We Think
Do supernatural beliefs reflect the limits of human understanding?
Dangerously Big Ideas
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This Debate Has No Title
Solving the self-referential paradox
The Limits of Art
Art Couture
God's Map
Charting the universe
The Call of Silence
The route to understanding
Reinventing Film
The rise of independent cinema
I Think Therefore Iamb
Poetry gives pleasure, distraction and emotional outlet but can it uncover a greater truth?
The Emperor's New God
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Of Wonder and Terror
Science, art, and the sublime
The Schlock of the New
The strange vulnerability of giant corporations
The Screen Age
Beyond Words
Is meaning a human fantasy?
A Wonder Full World
Is the sublime real?
Blowing in the Wind
Pop-star revolutionaries
Error, Lies, and Adventure
Should we embrace our mistakes?
Time and Tate
the story of art in Britain
The New Beautiful
The Art of Activism
Patricia MacCormack | Creative protest for impact
Hitler's Art War
Taking Over the Gallery
Yes, It Really is Beautiful!
Pollock on Pollock Squared
The Cinema of Ideas
Error, Lies and Adventure Part 2
Abstract Graffiti
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Maps of Mystery
Can art help us catch sight of the ineffable? Or, do we mystify existence at our peril?
Six Billion Characters in Search of an Author
The View From Outside
Heresy, Truth and the Future
Challenging the status quo
Cultures of the Body
Why we all need Big Ideas
The Music of Revolt
Losing It
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Arts power to pack political clout is clear. But is this a reduction of great art?
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Dressed: A Philosophy of Fashion
The Secret Life of Clothes
How to See Life's Patterns
Harnessing the power of nature's design
The tyranny of the new
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Brian Eno's philosophy of art
Insights from a music legend
Writing The Future
Bringing life back to theatre
Artists' crusade
The politics in art
Status and wonder
How vital is art to our lives and culture?
The stories that make us
How stories shape our understanding of reality
Money, fame and value
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The new artistic revolution
How the digital landscape has revolutionised art
Trash, trends and the transcendent
Has culture lost sight of the sublime?
How to create art: by a scientist
Exploring creativity in its various forms
Popularity and prejudice
How do we measure artistic greatness?
How to do philosophy with Moby Dick
Uncovering truth through fiction.
Infinity in the palm of your hand
Can art uncover the essence of the world?
The betrayal of beauty
Can we separate art from beauty?
The importance of bad art
Extending art to change the world
Rebellion and rebirth
What activism teaches us about the world
Challenging the caricature
A life fighting stereotypes
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Billy Bragg on the power of music and protest
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Harnessing the power of story
Creativity and freedom
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The True and the Trivial
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On interpretting Wittgenstein
Julian Baggini | In-depth Interview
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Taking emergencies seriously
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Episode 3: The uses and limitations of language
Beyond Us: Growth
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Philosophy for cynical times
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Life, the universe, and everything else
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Determinism is a superstition
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The world is not made of things
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The world that disappeared
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A matter of facts
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Language and power
Is language capable of communicating experience?
Postmodernism in the dock
Are we right to abandon objective truth?
On the nature of reality
The limits of materialism
Lost in language
Is analytic philosophy's fixation on language holding us back?
The world after reality
Reality is dead
The one true story
Is philosophy the disinterested pursuit of truth?
The making of reality
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How philosophy got lost
An interview with philosopher Slavoj Žižek
Getting everything, losing everything
The dawn of a new reality?
A world by any other name
Can we crack our relationship to language?
How I changed my mind about truth
An interview with philosopher Simon Blackburn
The best and worst of all possible worlds
Are there alternate realities to ours?
In Conversation: Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson
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Rhetoric and reality
Why is language no guide to reality?
Explaining away truth
An interview with Paul Horwich
The life and philosophy of Slavoj Žižek
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Why we should question everything
An interview with Michael Della Rocca
Dostoevsky vs Nietzsche
The fundamental threat to humanity
Hilary Lawson on Closure
Perception as a fantasy
Reality as illusion
Fragments and reality
Is the world really made of separate parts?
The matrix, myths, and metaphysics
Is metaphysics still relevant?
