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Practical Zen

Practical Zen Case #14 of The Gateless Gate: “Nansen kills the cat” Once the monks of the eastern and western Zen halls were quarrelling about a cat. Nansen held up...

God

Despite false equivalences, religion (or spirituality) and culture aren’t the same thing. Religion deals in fundamental archetypes and universal ideas whereas cultures change continuously - and depending on the stock...

Metabolise Now

What is happening when people start to view experiences in their own lives as content opportunities for social media? Our ability to be “lost in the moment” is replaced by...

Something

Will our avatars have better lives than us and will we be able to live vicariously through them? Will our avatars be economically more productive than us? And will our...

The Ads That Hate The Most

Adverts are, by their nature, banal. Their banality comes from their ubiquity, our over-exposure to them, and the repetitive pattern of their messaging. Occasionally a type of advertising or an...

Post-Truth & The Commodified Individual

Adam Tooze’s book, Crashed, chronicles the world following the 2008 global financial crisis. He points to this moment as a critical pivot in our relationship to truth and reality, leading...