Noema Magazine

Noema is a magazine exploring the transformations sweeping our world. We publish essays, interviews, reportage, videos and art on the overlapping realms of philosophy, governance, geopolitics, economics, technology and culture. In doing so, our unique approach is to get out of the usual lanes and cross disciplines, social silos and cultural boundaries. From artificial intelligence and the climate crisis to the future of democracy and capitalism, Noema Magazine seeks a deeper understanding of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century.

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Noema Magazine • FALL 2022 — ISSUE Nº 3

RUPTURE

THE RETURN OF CIVILIZATIONS • The civilization state is reemerging and taking us beyond the opposition between liberalism and nationalism.

Noema Insights: Ukraine, China & A Shifting World Order • Noema spoke with thinkers from around the world about the impact of the war in Ukraine and the rise of China.

THE TYRANNY OF TIME • The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.

ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO INFORMATION • The torrent of accelerated time without narrative is disorienting our society and fragmenting community, says philosopher Byung-Chul Han. Art can help put the pieces back together.

THE SURPRISINGLY SOPHISTICATED MIND OF AN INSECT • Insects appear to be more intelligent and emotionally complex than we give them credit for. Perhaps, new research suggests, they are even conscious.

WHAT AI MEANS FOR ANIMALS • There is an urgent need to expand AI ethics so that it considers nonhuman life.

Noema Insights: Explorations Of The Planetary • Noema spoke with Achille Mbembe, Benjamin Bratton and Anne-Marie Slaughter about the concept of “the planetary.”

HOW BLACK AMERICA FELL OUT OF LOVE WITH AFRICA • Contemporary Afro-pessimist intellectuals see no shared identity that can serve as the basis for solidarity between Africans and African Americans.

A MAN OF HIS TIME, AND OURS • Winston Churchill’s views were typical of his place as a member of Britain’s ruling upper class, which, then and now, views dominance as a birthright.

PAYING OURSELVES TO DECARBONIZE • As we transition to a green economy, we must compensate petro-states for their lost income. Otherwise, the world economy will collapse like a house of cards.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE CARBON FOOTPRINTS OF THE RICH • Dramatically unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis.

THE LONG MARCH TOWARD A GREEN CHINA • The Chinese Communist Party has found a compelling new reason to align the country around a common purpose: the climate crisis.

UNCOVERING OUR DNA’S HIDDEN SURPRISES • To prepare for future pandemics and find new cures to disease, we must determine how the human genome varies from one person to the next.

VOICES FROM THE BEYOND • Artists can use artificial intelligence as a creative tool to transmit themselves from the afterlife.

THE NFT FUNHOUSE MIRROR • Some hope NFTs will democratize the elitist traditional art world, but so far, they only reflect and crystallize the problems of the past.

LINE GO UP • Of course, art has always been toy money for the rich to play with. We just made it more ubiquitous, more efficient, more technologically mediated. We made it faster.

Sougwen Chung “Ecologies Of Becoming” • Using neural networks, biosensors and virtual reality, my art explores various modes of sensing: human and machine, organic and synthetic, improvisational and computational.

PUBLIC HOUSING FOR ALL • A system of public enterprises that build and operate housing will help us out of our current crisis and will be...