A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical ...

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...

More concerned with the action itself than with the theory behind it,’ Torres was relieved of his orders in 1965, after which ...

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains ...

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe ...

is professor and chair of global international relations at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is the founding director of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) and ...

Noah never reckoned with trinomials. Modern Creationists, grasping for footholds in the post-Darwinian world, maintain that Noah took 1,398 kinds of animal aboard his Ark, as the floodwaters gathered ...