The Vampire’s Journey – How the Bloodsucker Changed Over the Centuries
By the time we got to Blade or Edward Cullen’s sunlight-sparkling vampire, the bloodsucker had already gone through countless transformations.
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How Did The Lord of the Rings Change the Way We See the World?
How did Tolkien’s world come into being? How did old, varied myths become the kind of coherent fantasy world we now take for granted?
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Sherlock Holmes Came Back from the Dead – How Investigation Became a Cultural Phenomenon
How did investigation become a literary genre, mass entertainment, a game – and one of culture’s most popular ways of understanding the world?
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When the World Came Together – Towards Global Thinking
How did the world become connected in space, time, and information? From Kant to Hegel, from global networks to emergence: how do we collectively shape a world that, in turn, shapes us? In our previous three articles, we took a rather long journey. First, we travelled around the world (quite a long journey in itself),…
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The Message That Outran the Ship – When Information Became Connected
From messengers and letters to the telegraph and the internet: how did information go from being tied to physical locations to flowing through planetary networks? In August 1858, Queen Victoria of Britain sent a message to US President James Buchanan. It was written in an extremely formal tone, which may well have been the equivalent…
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The Day There Were Two Noons – When Time Became Connected
Nearly 150 years ago, there was a day when noon came twice in several parts of North America. It was another step towards bringing the world’s timekeeping systems together. On November 18, 1883, at midday in New York, a railroad worker glanced at his watch to check the time. His watch was perfectly accurate, and…
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Around the World in Eighty Days – When Space Became Connected
Just a few hundred years ago, reaching any point on Earth was far from something we could take for granted. When did space become connected? When did the world come together?
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Destino – Dalí, Disney and the Scattered Imagination
Dalí and Disney’s unfinished film spent decades scattered across drawings, memories and archives, before being brought back to life by a new generation of artists.
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Pogo Is Not a Dance – On the Mosh Pit Phenomenon
From the outside, a mosh pit may look like a chaotic mass brawl. In reality, it is a communal space operating according to its own rules. What happens when people temporarily enter a different system of rules?
