All Episodes
Aeon Magazine — 176 episodes
The bombarding of childhood
Penchants of the polymaths
Medieval mental health
Our eloquent hands
Continental divide
Upend the trickle-down
Neuroqueering on the lawn
More nothing now
The Singapore strategies
Beyond food and people
Empire of flight
The planetary fix
The fog of hunger
Dolphins and other lovers
In praise of zealotry
Worm munch matters
Where did the grandeur go?
Natural-born existentialists
The neverending house
Mecca and the mall
A second sexual revolution
How we meet the future
Sasquatch science
Culture clash
Towards an AI for Africa
Thucydides the perspicacious
Resist the technocrats
How art invented humanity
The light narrows
The taming of Black thought
Signal then storm
The savage bites back
The people’s atheist
Beyond Greece and Rome
Transit of wonder
Loitering towards war
The looting of science fiction
Unmothered
Lore of the rings
How to offset your brain
‘The emperor is far away’
Skill nostalgia
Abyss
The anguish of choice
Illegible benefits
The measure of flourishing
The violence specialists
Who are the fire-tamers?
No one is self-made
Trauma creep
Words, words, words
What is this rock?
Therapy for billionaires
A philosophy of home
The no-human future
The joy of autism
What shape is the Earth?
Artist of sympathy and cruelty
Flickering Enlightenment
The embattled witnesses
Can ecosystems malfunction?
Being small
Make immigration boring
Maritime China
Mathematics is out there
Gen Z but two centuries ago
Rights require money
Beneath our human shallows
Children are apprentices
The eye in your pocket
The origins of Indians
Embrace the edge!
Reality emerges
To be is to participate
The Ethiopian running secret
Hunting ‘Man the Hunter’
The Black executioner
White-collar sweatshops
Does reading do us any good?
No nature without fear
Justice is geometric
Fuel for thought
The invention of the soul
Join the dots
You’ve lived this life before
The sterilisation-seekers
Patterns without desires
Living without my self
The antibiotic trap
Playing in flatland
When trauma becomes trope
The house is a work of art
Banking beyond the law
The hypercurious mind
Medieval moons
Sleep is delicious
Catastrophe markets
One China, one world
The clock in our genes
An African philosophy
Desert survivors
Cosmic imposters
Bitch: a history
Geist in the machine
Abandoning ourselves
Unbounded
From cells to selves
A wondrous brew
A duty to oneself
Reversing extinction
Does culture make emotion?
Nothing alive is alien to me
Not in our name
Savage care
On her own terms
The insurance catastrophe
Who is Walter Mignolo?
Our phosphorescent world
The inflammation age
There are no psychopaths
The presence of power
The six-second hug
Conservation’s prejudice
‘I awoke at ½ past 7’
Mask on/mask off
Going-against-the-grainers
Books and screens
Mexistentialism
The snowball effect
The deepest South
The model of catastrophe
Guarding the guardians
Subverting hell
Compost modernity!
Orcas and ourselves
The ant you can save
Are you Confusedocene?
How selfish are we?
Between being and emptiness
Can you rewire your brain?
Victims and villains
Megastructures on Mars
Valuable misunderstandings
Is inherited wealth bad?
A lesson in coexistence
Power and flesh
The world without hegemony
Computers can’t surprise
Dreams of the far Right
A light from the periphery
Our unfinished republics
The shape of time
Landholder vs stockholder
How to become a tree
The synthetic self
Red tape on a blue planet
The tragedy of Trần Đức Thảo
The spiral of suffering
The erotic poems of Bilitis
Why nothing matters
The last letter
Moral resilience
There are no pure cultures
Reality is evil
The other Homo sapiens
Incandescent anger
Are doctors replaceable?
Philosopher of pride
Long live the aeonophiles!
A life of joy and work
Green dominion
Undefinable yet indispensable
Can machines suffer?
The empty ideology
Maternal paradox
The world without hegemony