Nearly one in four people aged over fifteen reports feeling quite or very lonely, according to the study conducted by Meta and Gallup between 2022 and 2023 across 142 countries. The figure is staggering, but what is most revealing is who published it. The very company whose platforms have been documented as instruments of systematic … CONTINUE READING →
There is a distinction the system would rather we not make. Between knowing and learning. Between accumulating and transforming. Libraries are full of people dead on the inside, as the saying goes, and it is true, but there is something more precise to say. In the information age, that inner death has become profitable. This … CONTINUE READING →
In 1933, as imperial Japan electrified itself at a forced pace and Western architects exported alongside their blueprints a particular idea of the good life, a writer from Osaka published a short essay on light and its consequences. Junichiro Tanizaki was neither a politician nor an economist. He was a novelist attuned to textures, to … CONTINUE READING →