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“The trouble with human happiness is that it is constantly beset by fear,” Hannah Arendt wrote in her incisive Augustine-lensed meditation on love an

In our everyday 3D lives, we apply force to matter and get predictable results. We unpack groceries, chop garlic, and switch on a stovetop to boil wat

The German term Gesamtkunstwerk, roughly translates as a "total work of art" and describes an artwork, design, or creative process where different art

life necessitates contradictions to ever recreate itself.

Abilene Paradox is a phenomenon in which a group of people collectively agrees on a course of action that is contrary to the preferences of the indivi

even now, fresh tears make my vision waltz, with loving grief

My body … in constant negotiation with the bodies of the world beyond me, at the shifting edges where my skin bleeds into others

“Everyone bifurcates the world into content and distribution,” Whaley told me. He has brown hair, is of average height, and was wearing a nondescript

Solnit poignantly describes: “We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or hate, to see or be seen. Often, too often, stori

Storytelling, like ecosystems, needs diversity to thrive.

A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to

We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis wrote in his 1973 field guide to how people

we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self t

“Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing." -Rebecca S

That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the unive