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Societies of perpetual movement
Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest

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The hunter-gatherers of the 21st century who live on the move | Aeon Essays
Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest
aeon.co
August 31, 2024 at 6:42 AM
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Can someone please dub this with Werner Herzog as narrator? Thank you.

“Hardly working” — Does capitalism make ‘non-playable characters’ of us all? An uncanny exploration.

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Does capitalism make ‘non-playable characters’ of us all? An uncanny exploration | Aeon Videos
The daily grind of non-playable characters offers a clever critique of capitalism’s ‘infinite loop of labour performance’
aeon.co
December 2, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Is life logically inevitable? Awesome essay in Aeon this week considers the possibility that life is, in fact, a computational process. #life #aeonmagazine

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Is life a complex computational process? | Aeon Essays
Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process
aeon.co
September 19, 2024 at 12:19 PM
frankgerits.bsky.social
My piece in AeonMagazine on "The route to progress", how decolonization created multipolarity and my beef with IR theorists.
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How decolonisation created the multipolar world | Aeon Essays
Anticolonial modernity was founded upon the fight for liberation from communists, capitalists and imperialists alike
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June 27, 2024 at 11:17 AM
mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy
Tales of collapse may be imperial propaganda.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse

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The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays
Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides
aeon.co
August 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy
A well-presented explanation of the relevance of philosophy to physics.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-philosophy-of-physics-when-you-can-do-physics-itself

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Why do philosophy of physics when you can do physics itself? | Aeon Essays
Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful
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June 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
annyjoe.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions

This is very good.

https://aeon.co/videos/bright-nights-lonely-crowds-a-tokyo-train-speeds-through-urban-contradictions

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Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions | Aeon Videos
Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions
aeon.co
September 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
annyjoe.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
Night life

Back on the islands of my childhood, I’m clinging to sobriety, searching for a rare bird that’s also on the brink

https://aeon.co/essays/on-the-lonely-midnight-trail-of-orkney-s-corncrakes

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On the lonely midnight trail of Orkney’s corncrakes | Aeon Essays
Back on the islands of my childhood, I’m clinging to sobriety, searching for a rare bird that’s also on the brink
aeon.co
August 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
annyjoe.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the
hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you
with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

https://aeon.co/essays/nyc-blue-what-the-pain-of-loneliness-tells-us

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NYC blue: what the pain of loneliness tells us | Aeon Essays
Loneliness can be a shameful hunger, a shell, a dangerous landscape of shadowy figures. But it is also a gift
aeon.co
August 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM