OliWhat a great and insightful read!
"Instrumentalisation is making everything a means to an end"
by Julian Baggini on #AeonMagazine
https://aeon.co/essays/instrumentalisation-is-making-everything-a-means-to-an-end
SebastianCan we admire human achievement without blindly embracing it? | Ripple
By Conner Griffith, via #AeonMagazine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PsbBddONzQ
Can we admire human achievement without blindly embracing it? | Ripple
Matt Hodgkinson"Life can exist on orders of magnitude lower power and sustain their living cells for orders of magnitude more years than previously thought possible. This means that many of these living beings bump up against the energetic limits of life, and in the process seem to have cracked the code for near-immortality. These types of intraterrestrials have such extremely long lifespans that we need a new term to describe the type of extremophiles that they are. The word aeonophiles fits, since they like (-phile) long periods of time (aeon-)."
https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life
Falling forward đBright nights, lonely crowds â a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions
This is very good.
https://aeon.co/videos/bright-nights-lonely-crowds-a-tokyo-train-speeds-through-urban-contradictions
Night life
Back on the islands of my childhood, Iâm clinging to sobriety, searching for a rare bird thatâs also on the brink
https://aeon.co/essays/on-the-lonely-midnight-trail-of-orkney-s-corncrakes
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the
hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you
with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
Me, myself and I
Loneliness can be a shameful hunger, a shell, a dangerous landscape of shadowy figures. But it is also a gift
https://aeon.co/essays/nyc-blue-what-the-pain-of-loneliness-tells-us
Tales of collapse may be imperial propaganda.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse
#AeonMagazine #LukeKemp #EmpiresDie #Collapse #CivilizationCollapse #AncientHistory #Archeaology
A well-presented explanation of the relevance of philosophy to physics.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-philosophy-of-physics-when-you-can-do-physics-itself
#AeonMagazine #PhilosopyOfScience #PhysicsTheory #PhilosophyOfPhysics #ShutUpAndCalculate #ScienceTheories #ScientificTheory #Philosodon
Can someone please dub this with Werner Herzog as narrator? Thank you.
âHardly workingâ â Does capitalism make ânon-playable charactersâ of us all? An uncanny exploration.
https://aeon.co/videos/does-capitalism-make-non-playable-characters-of-us-all-an-uncanny-exploration
Societies of perpetual movement
Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-hunter-gatherers-of-the-21st-century-who-live-on-the-move
