What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars? - The Convivial Society
However, amid the AM -ification of cities and culture, there is light in the darkness. We are beginning to understand what we lose when we reject the night. Policies to keep cities open round-the-clock have been picking up steam since Amsterdam began issuing 24-hour operating licenses in 2013. The idea of cultivating night time economies has since ... See more
Alexi Gunner • Idle Gaze 062: Dawn Chorus / Dusk Chorus
Every progress in science in the last decades, from the moment it was absorbed into technology and thus introduced into the factual world where we live our everyday lives, has brought with it a veritable avalanche of fabulous instruments and ever more ingenious machinery. All of this makes it more unlikely every day that man will encounter anything... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Dream of Virtual Reality
“There is a fear of the night that is begotten of ignorance and superstition, a nightmare fear, the fear of the impossible; and there is another fear of the night—of the starlit night—that comes with knowledge, when we see in its true proportion this little life of ours...”
Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
