“In praise of irritation.” Rees 2023. #AeonMag. https://aeon.co/essays/a-meditation-on-irritation-a-feeling-in-search-of-causes
#Irritation #Anger #Mood #Artistry #Creativity #Psychology #Philosophy
#aeonmag #irritation #anger #mood #artistry #creativity #psychology #philosophy
“The virtue of discretion.” Daston 2023. #AeonMag. https://aeon.co/essays/discretion-is-hard-to-live-with-even-harder-to-live-without
#Discretion #DecisionMaking #Philosophy #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfThought #HistoryOfIdeas
#aeonmag #discretion #decisionmaking #philosophy #intellectualhistory #historyofthought #historyofideas
I wrote an essay on #mothers, #spiders and #LouiseBourgeois for #Aeon #Psyche Magazine! published today, thanks to editors for publishing it and to @nigelwarburton for the commission
#aeonmag ‘I transform hate into love.’
Woman made of braided steel, monster I call Maman: why am I so scared of you? An imagined conversation with Louise Bourgeois by the poet #PascalePetit. Follow the link below to read the essay,
https://psyche.co/ideas/a-conversation-with-my-spider-maman-and-louise-bourgeois
#mothers #spiders #louisebourgeois #aeon #psyche #aeonmag #pascalepetit
𝗢𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗺, 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱.
It is enormously empowering – even intoxicating – to lose yourself to a #crowd. That is why we need #contrarians.
«Since they have cut off their ties with their #tribe, nothing prevents them from seeing things as they are.»
#society #diversity #nonconformism
https://aeon.co/essays/on-nonconformism-or-why-we-need-to-be-seen-and-not-herded via #aeonmag
📷 Richard Kalvar/Magnum
#aeonmag #nonconformism #diversity #society #tribe #contrarians #crowd