Xenophilia: Golden Rule of the Stranger
Unfortunately, we all know what “xenophobia” means. Derived from the ancient Greek words for “stranger” and “fear,” it’s defined as the fear or hate of the foreign or alien person...
The War on Bugs
...and aggression. “Magnification of power or size—e.g., giant insects (and other exaggerated animalcules)—is another mode of symbol formation,” writes professor of philosophy Noël Carroll. “Often magnification takes a particular phobia...
Verbatim: Fredric Jameson
Literary critic, critical theorist, philosopher, Marxist: Fredric Jameson died last month at the age of ninety. In his long career, he wrote more than thirty books and many more articles...
Francis Bacon’s Fables of Life Extension
...mournful song that harmonizes nature. For Bacon, the songs represent, respectively, science and political philosophy. The lessons here are that scientific research could succeed in extending life if its practitioners...
New Atheism and the Trouble with Literalism
English literature scholar David Hawkes describes the New Atheism movement of the early 2000s as “arguably the first genuinely popular movement in the world of ideas for several decades.” Hawkes...
In the Stereoscope, Another World
...and city streets. For the inquiring, they were a means to talk about science, vision, veracity, and even philosophy. According to science historian Robert J. Silverman, stereography was immediately recognized...
The Ins and Outs of Architecture
...Why Architects Need Philosophy to Guide the AI Design Revolution Nayef Al-Rodhan July 18, 2024 Architecture in the age of AI—argues professor Nayef Al-Rodhan—should embed philosophical inquiry in its transdisciplinary...
Surrealism at 100: A Reading List
...directions, such as Koga Harue, who replicated depictions of scientific innovations in his paintings, and Zhao Shou, who involved Eastern philosophy in his approach to the avant-garde. Sheryl Conkelton, “American...
Richard Gregg: An American Pioneer of Nonviolence Remembered
By 1957, Martin Luther King Jr. was the nation’s best-known practitioner of nonviolent direct action. That year, he was asked to name the five texts that most influenced him. He...
When Aldous Huxley Dropped Acid
...artist, embarked on a journey that left a lasting mark on philosophy, literature, and our understanding of the human mind. Support JSTOR Daily! Join our membership program on Patreon today....