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“We are putting the cart before the horse when we understand ourselves as the source of sense and meaning. In reality, we are participants in something that exceeds us, and the aesthetic, poetic dimension of great art reconnects us with that excess as a matter of course” aeon.co/essays/human...
"What is perhaps most remarkable about the life Said created for himself...is that such humane and intellectual expansiveness was fashioned in a terrain of desolation, a dark gulf caught between an inheritance of loss and a diminished present" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/hisham-mat...
Hisham Matar's New Introduction to Edward Said's "Out Of Place"An unreleased acclaimed Libyan-British writer's new foreword to "Out of Place" - Edwarwww.thekeymagazine.com“A remote village in the Pamir Mountains, one of highest inhabited elevations in the world, where a very small population of Kyrgyz nomads still exists… A girl named Shargha milks a yak. In this region, the women wear red veils before marriage & white ones after” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
“The premise that the future will resemble the past because it has always resembled the past will continue to be true until the first time it isn’t” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Rise of the “Scenario,” a Trendy Way of Forecasting our Dystopian FutureIn “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future?www.newyorker.com“I wanted the bees to adapt to these harsh conditions, just as we have had to adapt” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
From 400 hives to 35: the Gaza beekeeper refusing to let war end his life’s workIbrahim al-Dabba continues to care for his colonies despite losing his home and most of his hives and equipmentwww.theguardian.com“the extreme levels of inequality predicted in this essay justify a more robust tax policy on basic moral grounds, but [for] the world’s billionaires it’s in their interest to support a good version of it: if they don’t, they’ll get a bad version designed by a mob” darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...
Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of TechnologyConfronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AIdarioamodei.com"Elon Musk can keep wreaking havoc and bullshitting everyone because he’s simply become too big to fail. Investors can’t let him go bust, and the media can’t let him become irrelevant. Too much is built up around him, so he can effectively do as he pleases"
Paris MarxAfter The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
"this isn’t just about £80 T-shirts. This is about a bigger question: about the rights and wrongs of sourcing stuff from overseas, about whether we, as an economy, should be making stuff or buying it in" edconway.substack.com/p/what-andy-...
What Andy Burnham's £80 T-shirt really tells usThis isn't just a story about expensive clothes. It's about where things are made, about why you can't really trust what it says on the label and about what happens after the "end of geography"edconway.substack.com‘This sense of a society adrift after so many years in the economic doldrums is crucial when reading politics in the UK today. To sum up why he thinks Farage may be the best choice for the future of the country, he says: “Someone’s got to do something.”’
Sarah Elizabeth CoxI'm slightly biased because me, my dad and my favourite purveyors of cake, vintage clothes and soft play centres are in it... but this portrait of Clacton by @timburrows.bsky.social and 📷 Andy Hall is superb. Balanced, diverse, intelligent, so so well done: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
THE UPRISING - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters September 11YouTube video by Focus Featuresyoutu.beAaron RuparHannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
“Most U.S. states have a reckless endangerment offense. This criminalizes reckless conduct that creates a substantial risk of injuring another person… That’s exactly what big oil did…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to prosecute climate crimes – with laws that already exist | Aaron RegunbergSome have called for Nuremberg-style trials against big oil. But there are laws already on the books to describe companies’ conductwww.theguardian.comTo truly rewild the uplands, bring back mammoths, giant elk, cave lions and sabre-tooth cats NOW! Giant short-face bears as a stretch goal www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Upland by Ed Douglas review – a glorious survey of Britain’s high placesThe writer and climber brings colour and carnival to his account of a country and people shaped by its mountainswww.theguardian.com"Quite how radical Burnham will end up being remains to be seen, but some of the appearance of political radicalism is merely the shock of politics being done purposefully and enthusiastically..." willd10.substack.com/p/keir-starm...
Keir Starmer, a negative political theologyWhat can we learn from the leader who wasn't?willd10.substack.com"If confirmed, this would be the first time a pyroCb has been observed in France." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
What is a ‘fire cloud’, and how have they worsened wildfires in Europe?Severe wildfires can generate their own unique weather systems. One of the most striking examples of this are dangerous pyrocumulonimbus, or pyroCB, cloudswww.theguardian.com"The Horse is maintained not by being frozen in time, but by being given attention as time flows." @polysemic.bsky.social on chalking the White Horse at Uffington. I've had the joy and privilege in joining this practice in June of this year and last www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...
Drawn togetherChristopher Daniel, FRSA reflects on the annual chalking of the Uffington White Horse, a 3,000-year-old land artwork whose survival depends on repeated communal care. Joining volunteers from Long Now ...www.thersa.org“the English Elm has, in its body, the breaths of the centuries of people who’ve visited Washington Square” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A “frail travelling coincidence.” Frank Cottrell-Boyce borrows Larkin’s phrase to describe the nation in a fine episode of This Cultural Life www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This Cultural Life - Frank Cottrell-Boyce - BBC SoundsWriter and Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce reveals his cultural influences.www.bbc.co.uk“Solipsism is a very difficult belief to maintain. No matter how sociopathic you are, there's always going to be a part of you that craves the approval, love and attention of others… This creates the very weird insistence on the part of the ultra-rich that they are actually philanthropists”
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)Whether it's Leona Helmsley's claim that "only the little people pay taxes," or Elon Musk's habit of calling people who disagree with him "NPCs," the whole ideological project of billionaireism is shot through with a kind of solipsism: pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/f... 15/
“Their stated motivation is to create as many people or sentient beings as possible before the heat death of the universe. But why? What’s the point of this cruel dream? Do they think they’re going to get a high score on the leaderboard at the end of the universe?” Adam Becker on EA and long termism
“Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.” Sarah Kane www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
This play gave its cast nightmares and had audiences fainting. Now it’s backThe late playwright’s violent, sexually explicit drama is often regarded as one of the most ‘hardcore’ pieces of modern British theatre. Director Rebecca Frecknall and star Leo Bill speak to Louis Chi...www.independent.co.uk