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Oct 14

Architecture at the End of the World

How to start thinking about the use of modern spaces in the near future — The headlines are clear: the world is ending and we’re all going to die. The latter isn’t true, and with humanity at the point we’re at now, it may never be true. The first, however, on the simple basis of considering a long-enough timescale, is inevitably true, and considering the…

Architecture

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Architecture

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Oct 6

What the Aesthetic Tastes of Bears Say About People

Adopting wild Russian cubs and a greater-than-human sensibility — I don’t know if you’ve ever seen what floored me immediately; pictures of bears sitting down enjoying natural scenery such as vistas and sunsets. They struck me as being a lot like hikers and photographers, spending great effort just to get to sit and stare out at a pretty view…

Nature

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What the Aesthetic Tastes of Bears Say About People
What the Aesthetic Tastes of Bears Say About People
Nature

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Oct 3

Why the Oldest Human Statue Ever is Displaying Its Penis

What Karahan Tepe tells us about human beliefs 12,000 years ago — Maybe you’ve heard of Göbeklitepe. The findings, rolling in since the 1990s and accelerating in the 2010s, regarding what amounted to a completely pre-agricultural temple complex with impressive carved artworks of humans and animals and indecipherable symbols which hint at a highly developed and deeply meaningful world-belief system lost to…

History

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Why the Oldest Human Statue Ever is Displaying Its Penis
Why the Oldest Human Statue Ever is Displaying Its Penis
History

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Sep 26

Why Old People Aren’t As Cool Anymore

What it says about the past and what it means for the future — I remember my history teacher in middle school reciting Plato’s famous quote on the youth of ancient Greece: “What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions.” The quote itself is…

Politics

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Politics

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Sep 21

Did We Lose Something Along the Way?

Practicing proper grief in the face of progress — One can argue that humankind, as a singular global community for the first real time ever, has felt pass through them most profoundly for the last few years a wave of grief; a sense that some aspect of human life essential to our antecedents got lost in all the dust…

Future

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Future

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Sep 11

A Point About Language and the End of Predictable History

Expect the unexpected in the 21st century — People like to say that the world is getting weirder; more erratic; harder to define. You could argue that is both the least and the most true right now that it has ever been. What is undeniable is that the rules which used to predictably guide world events up until…

Language

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A Point About Language and the End of Predictable History
A Point About Language and the End of Predictable History
Language

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Aug 17

What Does Our Art Say About Us?

An Honest Analysis of the Mirror Held Up by Modern Media — It should come as no surprise for me to say that art is and has always been reflective of the social values and desires of the day. 18th century Enlightenment values saw the mechanistic and mathematical aspects of the natural order expressed in art through the intricate, geometric and aggrandizing…

Art

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What Does Our Art Say About Us?
What Does Our Art Say About Us?
Art

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May 11

How the World Weaponizes Our Nostalgia Against Us

Hauntology and its pernicious effects on media and thought — It’s not a secret that corporations are manipulating the popular consciousness by profiting off of standardized and reinforced “nostalgic waves” every 20 years or so after a trend’s initial peak. The idea is that any given time, the young people of that time feel a mass sense of nostalgia for…

Philosophy

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How the World Weaponizes Our Nostalgia Against Us
How the World Weaponizes Our Nostalgia Against Us
Philosophy

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May 10

Book Review: “Mithras-Orion: Greek Hero and Roman Army God”

A window into the mysteries at the end of Rome — Anybody with some baseline knowledge on the Roman Cult of Mithras will know that the central problem in the study of the cult today concerns the identity of Mithras himself. And yet, for several decades from the start of the 20th century, this problem was thought to have been firmly…

Book Review

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Book Review: “Mithras-Orion: Greek Hero and Roman Army God”
Book Review: “Mithras-Orion: Greek Hero and Roman Army God”
Book Review

9 min read


Mar 22

Up Wandering the Upper West Side

A short story about pitying birds — I was walking with a girl at night in the wind in the winter. …

Fiction

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Fiction

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Jared Barlament

Jared Barlament

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Author and essayist from Wisconsin studying anthropology and philosophy at Columbia University.

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