by Alex William

for “What AI Can Tell Us About Intelligence“

by Luis López (Mallet)

for “Why It’s Time To Uncover The Surprises Hiding In Our DNA“

by Facultative Works

for “How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds“

by Noah Campeau

for “What AI Means For Animals” (Issue III: Rupture)

by Sophie Douala

for “All That Is Solid Melts Into Information“

by Stefania Tejada

for “How Black America Fell Out Of Love With Africa“

by Sun Xun

for “China’s Revolution Turns Green“

by Timothée Boubay

for “Keeping Time Into The Great Beyond“

by Uréchi Oguguo

for “How Black America Fell Out Of Love With Africa“

by Vasya Kolotusha

for “How Game Design Principles Can Enhance Democracy“

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Deep Time Sickness

In Mexico, people who are “tocado” — “touched” — reveal that geological traumas, like earthquakes, can destabilize our concepts of health, identity and even time.

by Lachlan Summers

The Surprisingly Sophisticated Mind Of An Insect

Insects appear to be more intelligent and emotionally complex than we give them credit for. Perhaps, new research suggests, they are even conscious.

by Carrie Arnold

All That Is Solid Melts Into Information

The torrent of accelerated time without narrative is disorienting our society and fragmenting community. Art can help put the pieces back together.

a conversation with Byung-Chul Han

The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance

The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary constraints.

by Alex Vuocolo

We Need To Talk About The Carbon Footprints Of The Rich

Dramatically unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis.

by Genevieve Guenther

The Rise And Fall Of Chimerica

For decades, America gave China a vision of future prosperity. But today, America has mostly ceased to offer a model for China or anywhere else, leaving China’s leaders without a guide as they chart a course into a future filled with potential turmoil.

by Jacob Dreyer

The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence

Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

by Adrienne Williams, Milagros Miceli and Timnit Gebru

The Clash Of Two Gilded Ages

Despite their great-power rivalry, America and China are more similar than most people think. Both are living through a Gilded Age and struggling to end the excesses of capitalism.

by Yuen Yuen Ang

How Black America Fell Out Of Love With Africa

Contemporary Afro-pessimist intellectuals see no shared identity that can serve as the basis for solidarity between Africans and African Americans.

by Alden Young

Keeping Time Into The Great Beyond

The 10,000-year clock is neither a ‘frightening’ ‘distraction,’ as its critics scorn, nor the ‘admirable objective’ its fans claim. It’s something else — a monument to long-term thinking that can unlock a deeper and more thoughtful spirit of interpretive patience.

by Vincent Ialenti

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The Tyranny Of Time

The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.

by Joe Zadeh

I Would Rather Be Born A Woman In China Than India

The vanity projects and military gadgets that are meant to signal India’s arrival on the global stage are doomed to sputter and die unless the country can improve the abysmal reality of the systematic denial of agency to women.

by Pallavi Aiyar

The Intelligent Forest

Recognizing that forest ecosystems, like societies, have elements of intelligence would help us leave behind the old notion that they are inert and predictable.

by Suzanne Simard

The Thoughts The Civilized Keep

The hype around a new AI language generator reveals the sterility of mainstream thinking on AI today — and indeed on how we think about thinking itself.

by Shannon Vallor

How China Avoided Soviet-Style Collapse

Understanding the shifting balance of social forces, interest groups and political factions is essential to see how China escaped the shock therapy that brought down the Soviet Union.

by Adam Tooze

A Man Of His Time And Ours

Winston Churchill’s views were typical of his place as a member of Britain’s ruling upper class, which, then and now, views dominance as a birthright.

by Priya Satia

A View Of The Future Of Our Data

Welcome to the era of data coalitions.

by Matt Prewitt  

The Last Of The Marsh Arabs

What happens to a community and ecosystem at the nexus of geopolitical tensions and climate change? And can 6,000 years of history save them?

by Leon McCarron, with photography by Emily Garthwaite

The Conscious Universe

The radical idea that everything has elements of consciousness is reemerging and breathing new life into a cold and mechanical cosmos.

by Joe Zadeh

The Long Shadow Of Colonial Science

Museums and gardens must become spaces that help us learn not only about biological life and human history, but also the colonialist and capitalist logic that still governs our everyday lives.

by Sria Chatterjee

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