Time is an object. Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories.

#science #AeonMag

https://aeon.co/essays/time-is-not-an-illusion-its-an-object-with-physical-size?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1c1f43b88f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_12_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-b43a9ed933-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

Graves under the living room.

Nicola Laneri in #aeonmag on the creation of #MemoryPlaces in ancient #Mesopotamia (and beyond) - and the presence of dead #ancestors in the world of the living:

https://psyche.co/ideas/why-ancient-mesopotamians-buried-their-dead-beneath-the-floor

I wrote an essay on #mothers, #spiders and #LouiseBourgeois for #Aeon #Psyche Magazine! published today, thanks to editors for publishing it and to @nigelwarburton for the commission

#aeonmag ‘I transform hate into love.’

Woman made of braided steel, monster I call Maman: why am I so scared of you? An imagined conversation with Louise Bourgeois by the poet #PascalePetit. Follow the link below to read the essay,

https://psyche.co/ideas/a-conversation-with-my-spider-maman-and-louise-bourgeois

𝗢𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗺, 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱.

It is enormously empowering – even intoxicating – to lose yourself to a #crowd. That is why we need #contrarians.

«Since they have cut off their ties with their #tribe, nothing prevents them from seeing things as they are.»

#society #diversity #nonconformism

https://aeon.co/essays/on-nonconformism-or-why-we-need-to-be-seen-and-not-herded via #aeonmag

📷 Richard Kalvar/Magnum