Selfhood, argues Zahavi, is both what allows us to mark our difference to others and what permits us to share a perspective ...

Is AI finally achieving selfhood? You’ll find lots of opinions about this, many of them based on loose, if-it-walks-like-a-duck parallels. Here’s my opinion based on 25 years research ...

The potential role of Web3, crypto, and ZKPs. At the height of its public fervor in 2021, Web3 felt like an amusement park ...

Q: Vauhini, your new book “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” takes an intriguing look at how our sense of identity is shaped by digital technologies. What inspired you to write this book?

Anchored by Samuel Fosso’s iconic black-and-white portraits from 1970s Central African Republic, the exhibition brings his ...

which explores the creation and performance of selfhood across the motley work of 13 artists. (“13,” curiously, is not one of Riley’s lucky numbers.) A number of the works in the exhibition ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

In this singular inquiry, journalist and novelist Vara (The Immortal King Rao) reflects on humanity’s relationship with technology. One entry transcribes an exchange between Vara and ChatGPT in ...

Few subjects engross historians as much as the origins of the modern self. Selfhood, of course, has always existed, but the modern, Western self is usually understood—in the words of the ...

Her sojourn to South Korea, first envisioned as a dalliance of the heart, a reunion with her beloved, soon unfurls into a journey far greater—a revelation of selfhood amid the labyrinthine ...

At the height of its public fervor in 2021, Web3 felt like an amusement park for scams. Bored apes were its mascots, Bitcoin its rollercoaster, the metaverse its hall of mirrors, and rug-pulls its ...