Aeon12h
How an artist transformed a dilapidated hunting lodge into a house made of dreams
Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum, part work of art, and wholly individual ...
Aeon1d
After decades of practising psychotherapy, I believe it has little foundation in science and often causes harm
After decades of practising psychotherapy, I believe it has little foundation in science and often causes harm ...
Aeon2d
Are zoos and natural history museums born of a desire to understand, or to control?
What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about the world, or a need to dominate it?
Aeon2d
What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself
What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself ...
Aeon6d
What’s an ancient Greek brick doing in a Sumerian city? An archeological investigation
A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...
Aeon6d
How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world
In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling: Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, ...
Aeon5d
Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome
Imagine a planet on the far side of the galaxy. We will never interact with it. We will never see it. What happens there is irrelevant to us, now and for the conceivable future. What would you hope ...