The Continuing Experiment | PERRIN LOVETT
What this study calls “a massive social experiment” is nothing new. A Massive Social Experiment The digital economy includes “those businesses that increasingly rely upon information te…| PERRIN LOVETT
What this study calls “a massive social experiment” is nothing new. A Massive Social Experiment The digital economy includes “those businesses that increasingly rely upon information te…| PERRIN LOVETT
This primer is about the broad stages of spiritual experience that can happen to committed long-term meditators, with an emphasis on the challenges. Knowing about these - having a context - can help people move through them more quickly. The post Spiritual Terrains and Challenges appeared first on Jeff Warren.| Jeff Warren
Nathan Gardels – editor of Noema magazine – offers in an issue a glimpse of the latest philosopher with a theory of history, or historiography. One that I'll briefly critique soon, as it relates much to today's topic. But first...| CONTRARY BRIN
Intellectual and political disputes to-day Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) When: 10–12 June 2026Where: German Historical Institute Paris, Collège de France, Maison de la recherche de...| Dialog und Austausch
This essay, on the debate over decolonising Shakespeare, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 23 March 2025, under the headline “Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world’s a stage for his ideas on injustice?” “My quarrel with the English language,” James Baldwin wrote in his essay Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare, had been “that the language reflected none of my experience.” And so “I condemned him as one of the authors and architects of my oppression...| Pandaemonium
We went to the Vivaldi Sound & Light Show at Saint Stephens Cathedral in Brisbane. See a few photos & some short videos that share the essence of the evening.| Write of the Middle
In December 1775, Pope Pius VI released his famed encyclical entitled Inscrutabilie Divinae Sapientiae. Translated as “The Inscrutable Divine Wisdom,” the Pope used his platform to issue a commentary on the most pressing issues of the time. Among the many topics he touched on were threats to the Catholic Church, the shifting politics of Europe, […]| Journal of the American Revolution
‘The primary function of a book is to recreate the author’s ideas in the reader’s mind’. So writes librarian and curator Paul Dijstelberge in the introduction to Máté Bartha’s Anima Mundi.| c4 journal
We throw around the term ‘dissident’ a lot. But what do we mean when we say it? The post What Is A Dissident? appeared first on The Hidden Dominion.| The Hidden Dominion
My top-10 life-changing ideas features: adult learning, adult development, ikigai, birth lottery, self-inquiry, free will, and more| Sloww
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ “Being a guru is weird, man. I mean, how many different ways can you say ‘Hey you ever notice how everything just kinda is? Well, it ju…| Caitlin Johnstone
One of the most important articles for dissidents to read is an essay that dates back to 1936 that discusses the Great American Remnant.| The Hidden Dominion
The Enlightenment has long been associated with the rise of modern Europe, and more generally with the concept of a typically European Modernity that took root in its wake. What it means to be ‘modern’ is indelibly bound up with our understanding of the Enlightenment’s core concepts: reason, religious toleration, civic virtue, political liberty, and scientific progress, to name but a few. For some, the Enlightenment is an essentially philosophical matter; for others it was and remains d...| Glenn Roe
‘La lettre au fil du temps: philosophe.’| Glenn Roe
As country after country has gone into COVID-19 lockdown, we have all had to learn to communicate, network, teach, study and relate online in ways unimaginable a few short years – or even months – ago. This phenomenon is just the latest stage in the information-technology revolution and part and parcel of the ongoing development of an increasingly digital society. This revolution has touched almost every aspect of our lives, from how we work, study, shop, relax and even make and maintain ...| Glenn Roe
This Australian Research Council Discovery Project is a cross-institutional collaboration between ANU (Glenn Roe and Robert Wellington), The University of Melbourne (Erin Helyard), The University of Sydney (Mark Ledbury), and Oxford University (Nicholas Cronk). Through the study of a unique and ambitious eighteenth-century songbook – Jean-Benjamin de Laborde’s Choix de Chansons (1773) – our project provides a workable solution to these questions by way of the notion of ‘transdisciplin...| Glenn Roe
A collaborative digital research project| Glenn Roe
