From moss to the cosmos: End of Greatness explores a world in decline and the charms of the Juno-106

From moss to the cosmos: End of Greatness explores a world in decline and the charms of the Juno-106

Is the world in a death cycle? That cheerful notion is the starting-off point behind a new theatre piece from collaborators Veda Hille and Maiko Yamamoto.

Art, sex, nature: why is everything sold to us as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself?

How a reductive worldview is stripping meaning from our most valued activitiesThis article was originally published as The six-second hug on Aeon.coFor decades, films out of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios have opened with Leo the roaring lion, garlanded with the motto ars gratia artis: art for art’s sake. Given that MGM is a money-making behemoth, we might doubt the sincerity of this high-minded sentiment. Still, it certainly expresses one of t…