In the face of denial, this film uncovers the hidden scars of Indonesia’s 1998 riots | Aeon Videos
In the face of government denial, this powerful film reveals the devastating gendered violence of Indonesia’s 1998 riots| Aeon
In the face of government denial, this powerful film reveals the devastating gendered violence of Indonesia’s 1998 riots| Aeon
Youths around the world are in a profound crisis of despair. Adults must help them to believe that the future will be better| Aeon | a world of ideas
Listen to the boundless sounds of nature, the great animal orchestra, whose songs imbue the world with fresh meaning| Aeon | a world of ideas
Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking| Aeon | a world of ideas
As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight| Aeon | a world of ideas
Everything eats and is eaten. Everything destroys and is destroyed. It is our moral duty to strike back at the Universe| Aeon | a world of ideas
Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery, brought to animated life, capture the turn of the seasons in central Australia| Aeon | a world of ideas
Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything| Aeon | a world of ideas
On call with the volunteers offering humanitarian aid to thousands of migrants from the Global South trying to enter into Europe| Aeon | a world of ideas
It’s time to rethink how we study life’s origins. It emerged far earlier, and far quicker, than we once thought possible| Aeon | a world of ideas
From Newton’s circle to Schrödinger’s curved geometry, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour| Aeon | a world of ideas
I once exalted in the extraordinary. But as I’ve learned from Virginia Woolf, indelible beauty is also found in the everyday| Aeon | a world of ideas
With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation| Aeon | a world of ideas
A hero or a murderer? Stalin’s legacy is still a contentious issue in his birthplace, seven decades after his death| Aeon | a world of ideas
Doodles are the emanations of our pixillated minds, freewheeling into dissociation, graphology, and radical openness| Aeon | a world of ideas
Ascend steep cliffs to discover Ethiopia’s ancient churches carved into rock, still serving as places of worship today| Aeon | a world of ideas
For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love| Aeon | a world of ideas
In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with the distressing voice in her head| Aeon | a world of ideas
At the heart of surfing, whether you’re a kook or a famous charger, is the pursuit of moments so pure they clean you out| Aeon | a world of ideas
Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden| Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world's most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.| Aeon
Corruption is a truly global crisis and the wealth addiction that feeds it is hiding in plain sight| Aeon
Why bystanders are reluctant to report a violent crime or aid a victim, and how they can be taught to step up and help| Aeon
It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be| Aeon
Too much research is done on Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic students. Can science widen its base?| Aeon
The systems that make people unfree are deeply intertwined. This prison abolitionist dares to envision real alternatives| Aeon
For Ludwig Wittgenstein, words derive their meaning within the ‘language game’ that we all play but can never escape| Aeon
Paul Humphreys user page — Paul Humphreys (1950-2022) was Commonwealth Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, where he co-directed the Human and Machine...| Aeon
Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to cosmology.| Aeon
Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides| Aeon
Life is complicated. In Cameroon, initiated diviners read the messages of spiders to untangle possible futures| Aeon
In the 1930s, the rise of Nazism brought centuries of animosity between Europe’s Catholics and Protestants to an end. Why?| Aeon
In the postwar period it was understood to be the fundamental malaise of modern life. Why aren’t we ‘alienated’ any more?| Aeon
When even a simple stroll down the sidewalk is an exercise in self-loathing, why don’t more women run away to the woods?| Aeon
Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music| Aeon
In the 1980s, thousands of Americans began to suspect they may have been abducted by aliens. What happened?| Aeon
Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more| Aeon
Being ‘good’ need not take years of ethical analysis: just a few moments of gratitude can set you on the path to virtue| Aeon
In enigmatic burials, crafted to bind the bodies within, we can see how truly ancient our fears of the undead must be| Aeon
In constantly reaching for past parallels to explain our peculiar times we miss the real lessons of the master historian| Aeon
Offering an escape from industrial foods, foraging nourishes the soul and body, but it needs democratic access to the land| Aeon
What’s a better way to understand human psychology – ‘I think, therefore I am’ or ‘A person is a person through other persons’?| Aeon
When AI takes over the practice of science we will likely find the results strange and incomprehensible. Should we worry?| Aeon
You might have the unconditional love of family and friends and yet feel deep loneliness. Can philosophy explain why?| Aeon
Anger is the emotion that has come to saturate our politics and culture. Philosophy can help us out of this dark vortex| Aeon
Olive oil was revered and cherished by the ancients. But its distinctive peppery taste is really a modern invention| Aeon
For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors| Aeon
To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities| Aeon
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history| Aeon
First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult| Aeon
In awe we hold fast to nature’s strangeness and open up to the unknown. No wonder it’s central to the scientific imagination| Aeon
It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous| Aeon
Hibernation allows many animals to time-travel from difficult times to plenty. Could humans learn how to do it too?| Aeon
How a country used myth and mystique to tempt global investors – and seeded a toxic Hindu nationalism in the process| Aeon
Hunter-gatherer societies are highly expert in group deliberation and decision-making which respects both difference and unity| Aeon
Confused 17th-century Europeans argued that human groups were separately created, a precursor to racist thought today| Aeon
You might feel you can trust your gut to tell right from wrong, but the friction of social change shows that you can’t| Aeon
In the liminal time when the brain is dead but organs are kept alive, there is an urgent tenderness to medical care| Aeon
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer| Aeon
Can a person do evil and yet not actually be evil? What Hannah Arendt meant by ‘the banality of evil’ remains a puzzle| Aeon
In the face of climate crisis it might seem myopic but philosophers from Spinoza to Næss argue it is the only way forward| Aeon
Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest| Aeon
Full of implicit rules and paradoxes, sulking is a marvellous example of intense communication without clear declaration| Aeon
It’s not in the interests of the ordinary person but it’s not a conspiracy either. A cashless society is a system run amok| Aeon
An evolutionary approach to consciousness can resolve the ‘hard problem’ – with radical implications for animal sentience| Aeon
Estranged but not alienated, devout but not obedient, philosophical but not a systematiser, Simone Weil defies conventions| Aeon
