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The social and cultural implications of Europe’s militarization
What trade-offs will Europe consider to support its growing defense spending?
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How the loneliness epidemic extends to the young and harms their wellbeing
Are we heading toward a future of artificial intimacy or a revival of real-world connection?
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The quitters of open societies
What happens when we no longer play a common game
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Perspectives on the post-truth era
The 'enshittification' of society
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Forget about the (human) parents
Meet the cyborgs
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The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier
Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists
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The deficient animal: artificial by nature
And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion
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Genuine writing in the digital age
An inconvenient effort worth pursuing
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Magic in metamodern times
To be(lieve) or not to be(lieve), that is the question
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Why we should embrace the void
The psychoanalysis of 'Love, Death & Robots'
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Post-growth: the dawn of a new era
What will the upcoming paradigm shift entail?
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We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
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When images matter more than reality
A reflection on Vilém Flusser's philosophy of photography in the age of social media
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
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Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
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Degrowth will make us happier
Understanding wellbeing beyond economic growth
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How collective behavior change can foster a sustainable future
A dive into the heart of the degrowth movement
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What would it take for us to believe in aliens?
Believing the unbelievable in times of disinformation and deepfakes
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Another piece on Barbenheimer
On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer
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Will generative AI bring the productivity increases we need?
Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity
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Are we heading towards post-human intelligence?
Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world
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Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice
Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework
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FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager
Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.
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Romantic robots: a new love paradigm
Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?
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Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover
Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological
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ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society
An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy
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Urban greening should focus on equity, not nature
The external valuation of nature in city planning could withhold green areas from becoming accessible to all
5
-minute read
The social and cultural implications of Europe’s militarization
What trade-offs will Europe consider to support its growing defense spending?
6
-minute read
How the loneliness epidemic extends to the young and harms their wellbeing
Are we heading toward a future of artificial intimacy or a revival of real-world connection?
16
-minute read
The quitters of open societies
What happens when we no longer play a common game
5
-minute read
Perspectives on the post-truth era
The 'enshittification' of society
11
-minute read
Forget about the (human) parents
Meet the cyborgs
12
-minute read
The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier
Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists
10
-minute read
The deficient animal: artificial by nature
And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion
9
-minute read
Genuine writing in the digital age
An inconvenient effort worth pursuing
5
-minute read
Magic in metamodern times
To be(lieve) or not to be(lieve), that is the question
19
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Why we should embrace the void
The psychoanalysis of 'Love, Death & Robots'
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