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Dragons in Clouds (1684) by Zhou Xun, Qing dynasty. Courtesy the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art We are interwoven beings A dragon needs the clouds and the wind in order to fly. What happens when we too relinquish individualistic reasoning? by Mercedes Valmisa + BIO Aeon, 25 November 2022 Mercedes Valmisa is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Gettysburg College in Pe..

Brontosaurus as it is imagined today, as its own genus, distinct from Apatosaurus, and with a Diplodocus-like head. Illustration by Davide Bonadonna, Milan i A dinosaur is a story As Brontosaurus tells us, in science as in fiction, the stories we tell to understand the world are always being revised by Nathaniel Goldberg & Chris Gavaler + BIO Aeon, 21 October 2022 Nathaniel Goldberg is professor..

디지털 문명과 인간의 자유 고현석 기자 대학지성, 2022.11.13 09:49 ■ 열린연단 〈자유와 이성〉 제26강_ 이종관 성균관대 교수의 「디지털 문명과 인간의 자유」 네이버문화재단의 아홉 번째 시리즈 ‘자유와 이성’ 강연이 매주 토요일 서울의 네이버 스퀘어 종로에서 진행되고 있다. 자유는 인간을 인간답게 해주는 자기실현의 원리라고 할 수 있으며, 그간 인류가 걸어온 길은 자유 실현을 위한 투쟁의 역사라고 해도 과언이 아니다. 또한 합리성의 증대는 자유의 신장과 불가분의 관계에 있다고 할 수 있다. 여섯 섹션 총 44강으로 구성된 이번 시리즈는 고전 시대로부터 근대를 거쳐 현재에 이르기까지의 다양한 자유 담론을 검토함으로써, 자유에 대한 이해의 지평을 확장하고 미래 사회를 위한 새로운 비전을 열어보..

Bruno Latour at home in Paris in 2018. Photo by Christopher Anderson/Magnum The generous philosopher Bruno Latour showed us how to think with the things of the world, respecting their right to exist and act on their own terms by Stephen Muecke + BIO Aeon, 28 October 2022 Stephen Muecke is adjunct professor at Notre Dame University, Broome, Western Australia, emeritus professor of ethnography at ..

황국·식민사관은 어떻게 ‘천황제 파시즘’으로 변태했나 기획·연재 일제 식민사학을 비판한다 김봉진 교수신문, 2022.10.11 09:14 일제 식민사학을 비판한다 ⑦ 일제의 동양사·동양학 올해로 광복 77주년을 맞이했다. 일제강점기로부터 해방된 지 오랜 세월이 흘렀지만, 대한민국은 여전히 역사를 제대로 이해하지 못하고 있으며, 식민지 근대화론과 좌우 대립 등 이념 갈등에서 자유롭지 못하다. 과연 한국인은 당파 싸움만 하며 전통만 고수하다가 나라를 빼앗겼을까. 이번에 출간된 ‘일제 식민사학 비판 총서’ 시리즈는 그동안 온전히 드러나지 않았던 일제 식민사학의 실체를 연구대상으로 삼았다. 대학·언론·박물관·철도주식회사·조선총독부 등은 과연 어떤 식으로 식민사학을 개발해왔는지 알아본다. 일곱 번째는 김봉진 기타..

Greenwich, London, 1954. Photo by Marc Riboud/Fonds Marc Riboud au MNAAG Leave them alone Parenting advice from D H Lawrence: don’t smother your children with love. They are more sagacious than you think by Lara Feigel + BIO Aeon, 7 October 2022 Lara Feigel is professor of modern literature and culture at King’s College London. Her latest book is Look! We Have Come Through!: Living with D H Lawr..

Photo by Raymond Depardon/Magnum A sliver of reality Science and mathematics may never fully capture the physical universe. Are there hard limits to human intelligence? by David H Wolpert + BIO AEON, 5th September, 2022 David H Wolpert is a professor at the Sante Fe Institute, external professor at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, adjunct professor at Arizona State University, and research ..

Portrait of the Artist as a Grown Man On T. S. Eliot’s later years Anthony Domestico Baffler, September 1, 2022 T.S. Eliot the year after The Waste Land was published. | Lady Ottoline Morrell Eliot After “The Waste Land” by Robert Crawford. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 624 pages. In a June 1922 journal entry, Virginia Woolf described a memorable evening spent with her friend, T. S. Eliot: Eliot di..

James Joyce’s divine comedy For the Irish, atheism will always be religious BY Terry Eagleton UnHerd, August 30, 2022 James Joyce Terry Eagleton is a critic, literary theorist, and UnHerd columnist. One of the great literary anniversaries last year was the death of Dante in 1321, while this year marks the centenary of the appearance of James Joyce’s Ulysses. At first glance it would be hard to f..

Liberals, Radicals, and the Making of a Literary Masterpiece Ivan Turgenev achieved greatness with a novel detested by almost everyone he cared about. By Keith Gessen The New Yorker, August 29, 2022 Ivan Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons” angered his political allies, but his ability to see all sides served him well as a novelist.Illustration by Henning Wagenbreth A newly minted university graduate h..