The Short Life (and A New Revival) of The Brownies’ Book
...their children something that they never had—representation. Researchers Courtney Vaughn-Roberson and Brenda Hill explain that The Brownies’ Book “offered Black children a visibility, literature, political philosophy, and direction nowhere apparent...
Data: Not Just Another Four-Letter Word
...1778 Encylcopaedia Britannica noted that the primary use of “data” was in mathematics, but the word was being “transplanted into other arts,” like theology, philosophy, and medicine, “where it expresses...
AI and the Creative Process: Part Two
...art—you can read about this in Part One of this three-part series.. From philosophy to aesthetics, discussed by scholars as far afield as composer-musician Annelies Monseré to aesthetic-philosopher Stephen Davies,...
Revisiting Yeshayahu Leibowitz
...philosophy at the University of Berlin, and then medicine in Koln and Heidelberg, before moving to Basel to finish his medical degree while the Nazis rose to power in Germany....
Kahlil Gibran: Godfather of the “New Age”
...book of apparent wisdom. What, then, of this prophet’s philosophy? It will certainly read differently for different people, but there are a few clear threads that read as very modern...
The Serpentine Career of Loïe Fuller
...failures, Fuller’s stardom was ensured, and it was based on artistry, technology, and philosophy, not any sense of glamor or sex appeal, unlike that of many other famous women in...
“The Poet Is a Man Who Feigns”
...the moment that Pessoa was intuiting Caeiro, de Campos, and Reis, philosophy and psychoanalysis were beginning to understand how complex our identities can be. Being is not smooth and monolithic,...
The Daguerreotype’s Famous. Why Not the Calotype?
...to Egyptology to botany and philosophy. “He was one of these polymathic figures, not uncommon at the time,” says Batchen. It was exactly this breadth of activity, however, “that enabled...
The Existentialism of Style vs. Substance
Like so many things from France, existentialism was introduced to America via the pages of fashion magazines. The “controversial French philosophy” (Vogue, 1946) was the next new post-war thing, the...