La Triennale di Milano’s “Enzo Mari Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli” Retrospective
A vast exhibition of the Italian master's work, which won't be seen in public again for 40 years
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Google Translate Employs Decades-Old Language Theory
Google Translate uses complex neural and numeric systems to find equivalencies in speech and text across languages. The tool is seemingly simple—at least for users. But on the backend, developers worked tirelessly …
TED 2018: Emily Levine’s “How I Made Friends With Reality”
The charming philosopher/writer/comedian discusses serious truths with lighthearted humor
David Dewane’s Eudaimonia Machine at STORY
The NYC concept store's new Work/Space edition explores the future of the way we work
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The Octopus is Basically an Intelligent Alien
Considering some 95% of the ocean is unexplored, it makes perfect sense that the new book “Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness” calls the octopus “the …
Leave Earth Behind: “The Universe is a Small Hat”
César Alvarez brings his fully participatory electronic musical to NYC's Babycastles to examine the eternal problem of designing an ideal society
Susan Sontag
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One of the contemporary world’s foremost thinkers, Susan Sontag contributed a wealth of critical analysis to a wide variety of subjects, and her singular intellect is as informative as it is provocative. …
Time
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Exploring the mind-bending question, “What does contemporary actually mean?” The MIT Press book, “Time,” explores how we measure minutes. If clock time is but a construct of capitalist structure, how else can …
New Alchemies
Alchimia's far-reaching influence reflected in today's neo-coherent designs and metastable objects
Daily Rituals
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Mason Currey looks into the lives of some of history’s most inspiring minds and compiles a fascinating range of daily rituals. Read about Jean-Paul Sarter, who wrote while on ten times the …