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The gravest of all decisions, to go to war, happens without the consent of the people. This is a great flaw in democracy - by Vincenza Falletti Read on Aeon
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A convincing argument
It’s almost never exclusively based on logic. We navigate the world with stories, beliefs and assumptions. And the people you’re trying to persuade have a different set of all three than you do. “If I were you” is a hard sentence to sell, because you’re not me. A convincing
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: metal medicine, hyped humanoids, carnival crossroads, divine defiance, and optimization obsession.
How IKEA Revolutionized Furniture-Making
The humorist Sandra Tsing Loh once described her generational cohort as “today’s young, highly trained, downwardly mobile professionals: ‘dumpies.’ We’re just emerging from years of college only to learn that there are no jobs available for people with our advanced
Required Reading
This week: pothole mosaics, mosque demolitions in India, Yazidi cultural reclamation, remembering Alice Wong, vocal fry, “American Gothic” drag, and much more.
How Did We Get Here?
We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is considered a threat to society.
Art Movements: Why, Maurizio Cattelan, Why?
In this week’s art news, 15 women artists over 40 get their due, Robbie Williams tries furniture design, and more.
Drunk Santas, Yoko Ono, and Other Joys of DOC NYC
From the disruptive nonsense of Santacon to Kwame Brathwaite’s “Black is Beautiful” movement, here’s what to see or stream.
Gay Sheep Make Their High Fashion Debut in NYC
I Wool Survive featured pieces made with wool from the world’s “first flock of gay sheep.”
Why I Joined the Artists Behind Fall of Freedom
What began as a conversation among a handful of artists has grown into a decentralized creative action, spanning more than 600 events across the country.
A View From the Easel
“The darkness surrounding my studio has its own magic.”
Smithsonian’s Online Native Cinema Showcase Presents Free Short Films by Indigenous Filmmakers
This curated selection of 13 Indigenous short films features stories of resilience, inspiration, and hope.
Delight in the Color and Symmetry of YoAz’s Kaleidoscopic Digital Illustrations
Drawing on the legacy of 1960s psychedelic posters, the artist emphasizes color, symmetry, and line. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Delight in the
Why Movies Don’t Feel Real Anymore: A Close Look at Changing Filmmaking Techniques
Anyone who keeps an eye on Hollywood knows — indeed, has been ever more frequently and anxiously informed — that the theater business is in trouble. If fewer of us than ever have been going out to the movies, one reason must have to do with the easy availability of home
Experiences in Groups
"The more you can perceive, the more choice you will have about how to respond."
A Bright Light Has Gone Out
I’m headed out on an unexpected trip this afternoon, to attend the funeral of Dr. Steve Feller, who was my advisor in college and to whom I owe a great deal. I talked about Doc, as all his students called him, on this podcast with Craig Mod several years ago. From the
Simon Laveuve’s Scaled-Down Tableaux Reveal Post-Apocalyptic Lifestyles
Laveuve is known for his meticulously sculpted miniatures rendered in 1/24 and 1/35 scale. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Simon Laveuve’s
My Pace
Goro Obata went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived. In the mountains of Hokkaido, Goro Obata traded