Essays and videos on how humans construct a sense of self with and against technology, from analogue tools to advances in AI.

But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself When did stories become so centred on good battling evil?

For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric ...

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999?

AI isn’t merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write What would it mean if we were able to ‘speak’ with whales? Do ...

Essays and videos recounting life experiences, from biographies of major figures to intimate memoir, capturing snapshots of ...

Essays and videos on the history of ideas, tracing how philosophical, political and sociological concepts emerged, evolved ...

The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) ...

Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians ...

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq ...

Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda ...

In September 2023, Linda Coombs published Colonization and the Wampanoag Story with Penguin Random House, about the Wampanoag people’s contact with Europeans. The book was categorised under ...