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Apple TV's Silo brings Plato's Cave to life. This is how Juliette Nichols takes on the burden of the philosopher in the sci-fi epic.

According to French anthropologist Marc Augé our world tends to create non-places where humans become isolated.

The Algorithmically Authorized Heritage Discourse (AAHD) explains how Big Tech algorithms transform cultural heritage into depoliticized digital commodities for individual consumption.

The historical roots behind the quote "Hard times create strong men." How Herodotus, Hesiod, and Ibn Khaldun viewed the cycle of empires.

There are a few interesting parallels between Greek mythology and Tolkien's universe.

Strange and interesting stories about love and obsessive love in ancient Greek mythology.