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The Lost Art Of Research As Leisure

Mariam Mahmoud | Kasurian | 9th March 2025

The 21C world of audio-visual distractions was predicted by major 20C figures like E.B. White, Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag. Leisure, not as pure idleness but as an inheritor of the Greek concept of scholē or "school", is under threat. As the German philosopher Josef Pieper argued, this takes the form of "a style of unconstrained research". Don't just read — read playfully, purposefully and curiously (3,500 words)

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A Brief History Of Accelerationism

Matt Southey | Latecomer | 27th August 2024

Originally a pejorative term for weary Marxists. The 2010s branch "effective accelerationism" favoured by techno-optimists such as Marc Andreessen is a "rebranded form of libertarianism". A more interesting version is espoused by "ultra-doomer" philosopher Nick Land, who thinks capitalism is the true protagonist of the universe, with humanity as a mere temporary component of the story (2,800 words)

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