The Temporal Sublime
What time is it, and why does it matter?
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Rain and the Rhinoceros
Thomas Merton's classic essay on nature, technology, fascism, and the role of solitude in allowing ourselves to be born from 'the social womb'.
The Cosmopolitics of Elves, Fairies, and Other Hidden Beings
On belonging to betweenness, and what modernity's adults cannot see.
The Failure to Pause
Simone Weil on the Iliad, attention as an antidote to force, and the metaphysics of the interval.
Anarchism: A Social Movement and Way of Life
The history, present, and possible future of an often unfairly maligned idea.
Writing About the Future in Your Eighties.
Beyond Tomorrow: Planning a New Civilisation by Christopher Nye
Cardiagenesis at an Epochal Threshold
The birth of the heart as an organ of conscious perception
Why Are We Publishing a Book on Anarchism?
Pre-order There We Are Human Again, by Carne Ross, published by Perspectiva Press.
What is Emerging...
A Perspectiva update, and welcome to Emerge Subscribers
Why Can't We See It?
It's not Woo if it's True(6): Biases of the modern mind, and the unsuspected charisma of space