All the world’s a stage,And all the menMerely performative?Taylor Swift, Sylvia Plath, tote bag and of course matcha...that's ...

Deep in the heart of the matter, some numbers don't add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, ...

The Years of Theory. Postwar French Thought to the present Fredric Jameson Verso. London, 2024 In the period just before Paris was liberated from German ...

Chinese musician and influencer Wang Bo has turned a Taipei politician's quip into a track that has become popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in recent weeks. Mainland China has tried to coopt ...

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"Dance, dance… otherwise we are lost." This oft-cited phrase by Pina Bausch encapsulates not only the urgency of movement, but its capacity to reveal space itself. In her choreographies, space is ...

IN RECENT years China’s economy has obeyed a three-act dramatic structure, recognisable to any playwright. Growth starts the year brightly, suffers troubling setbacks as spring turns to summer, then ...

Psychological and philosophical studies have long shown that a person's subjective moods and emotions have a significant impact on how they experience the "meaning in life." Philosopher Matthew ...

The term having easily triggers associations of possession, particularly that of material possession, which can in turn connote vulgarity. This sequence of ideas is so natural that it could have been ...

At its core, phenomenology is about describing experiences as they unfold without the influence of preconceived ideas. It echoes the German philosopher Edmund Husserl’s call to go “back to the things ...

“The drones were terrifying. From the ground, it is impossible to determine who or what they are tracking as they circle overhead. The buzz of a distant propeller is a constant reminder of imminent ...