A philosopher perhaps more widely known for his prodigious mustache than for the varieties of his thought, Friedrich Nietzsche often seems to be misread more than read. Even someone like Michel Foucault could gloss over a crucial fact about Nietzsche’s body of work: Foucault
“I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work. Read the book, not the summary. Write the piece, not the prompt. Suffer like the artist you are . It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.”
He surpassed all of his colleagues in the sheer depth, visceral intimacy, and empathy conveyed in his renderings of nobles, aristocrats, and thinkers.
Sony’s AI division has designed a robot that can beat elite human players at table tennis . From the paper : Evaluated in matches against elite and professional players under official competition rules, Ace achieved several victories and demonstrated consistent returns of
"When we were offered jobs as deckhands, we jumped at the chance, naïve to the risks of the open sea."
I had somehow missed (or forgotten) that Greta Gerwig is writing and directing an adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew , one of The Chronicles of Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. Filming has wrapped and it’s out in theaters on Nov 26.
This week, we honor a surrealist and zoologist, a monochrome abstractionist, and a pillar of Oakland’s Chinatown.
Many of us yearn for intimate, almost human interactions with art objects. But the risks might outweigh the rewards.
The initiative reached an estimated 900,000 visitors across 10 institutions in the United States during its pilot year.
A group of “unauthorized users” have accessed Anthropic’s Mythos AI model , which the company recently said they couldn’t widely release because it was too dangerous. Whoopsie doodle! Maybe don’t use guessable paths for your powerful cyberattack model?
"The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of 'Brave New World.'"
This year’s fest will feature over 80 publishers with a full weekend of workshops, panels, and book signings. May 8–10 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Filmmaker Noah Hawley was invited to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat in 2018. Reflecting on the experience recently for The Atlantic, Hawley writes that today’s super-rich have stopped “pretending that the rules of human society apply” to them . The Jeff Bezos of
Wow, this interview! “I’ve never had an interview quite like this one with Charlize Theron.”
“In a new book called “Israel: What Went Wrong?,” [Israeli professor of Holocaust & genocide studies] Omer Bartov argues that Zionism has morphed into an ideology of extremism that led to genocide in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of October 7th.”
In contrast with the institution’s behemoth architecture, its recently unveiled East London branches seem built on a human scale.
Lessons from a 1969 documentary on Nazi-occupied France on how fascism takes root . “A former undercover British agent recalls that working-class French were eager to help him and to shelter him. Those who were wealthier preferred to stay out of it.”
"Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more."
A new short story from Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation, etc.) called Constellations about a mission that has crash-landed on a distant planet.
We thought this day would never come. But we kept the faith and now we can begin to reap the rewards: there is actually a trailer for the Coyote vs. ACME movie and the movie itself is actually coming out on Aug 28. Quick recap of the situation so far: Ian Frazier wrote a story
Well, here it is at last: the new Boards of Canada album is called Inferno and it will be released on May 28. Pre-order or pre-save the album .
Jamelle Bouie on the truly unprecedented open corruption of the Trump regime . I’ve found it useful to think of DJT’s 2nd term primarily as a heist: a theft of money & power from the American people by a con man who finally found the perfect score.
Crafting each frame by hand, an animator paints the story of an Olympic swimmer’s return after surviving the Holocaust - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
An artist on saying no to the US Biennale pavilion, Dumbo Open Studios turns 10, and the Rijksmuseum takes on Ovid's magnum opus.
The author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age and The Immortal King Rao on memorable meals and books about whales.
Technology changes things. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. When a powerful new technology arrives, it offers us wishes. Too often, we waste them, asking it to take on simple chores or offer us trivial conveniences. We’re in the biggest moment of technical change of our
Though you may not hear it every day, chimera remains an evocative word, perhaps even more so for its rarity. It descends from the Greek Khimaira, literally “year-old she-goat,” the name of a mythical fire-breathing creature with a caprine body, sure enough, but also the head