NonFiction

»Climate change is a question of power and culture. Making it a topic of study for the social sciences.«

The increasingly number of crises in rapid succession has a somewhat eschatological quality. We have known for a long time that our non-sustainable model is no longer tenable. Yet many climate activists and sustainability researchers insist that a socio-ecological transformation can still prevent the worst.

This promise, Ingolfur Blühdorn argues, fails to recognise the reality...

A sixty-year-old woman and a thirty-year-old man are hiking in the solitude of the far north for seven days, in the archaic landscape of Swedish Lapland, the home of the Sami people, the last indigenous people in Europe.

At night, dreams open otherworldly doors, during the day, the rhythm of the steps sets their memory in motion. Peace and war, birth and death, horizon lines, fire,...

Whether furniture, hoardings, websites, clothing, pictograms, cars, or urban spaces: design is omnipresent. Only in philosophy has it up until now not received (almost) any consideration.

Daniel Martin Feige closes this gap by presenting a series of basic concepts that have to do with design, and presents design as an aesthetic praxis with its own rules. According to his thesis, in...

In her essential book, philosopher Janina Loh addresses the moral challenges that play a role in the construction of robots as well as in dealing with them: Are robots autonomous? Can they act morally? Do they have a moral value? Should they have rights? Who is responsible when a robot harms a human being?

The question as to the attribution of responsibility not only relates to...

The most successful naturopathic treatments for our joints by the bestselling author, whose books have sold more than 325,000 copies. More and more people around the world are suffering from joint...

A passionate plea for a new approach to medicine

Though conventional medicine continues to marginalise natural remedies, our society has long made up its mind: two...

We can’t foresee the future. If you believe that you’re already living it, as some people in the Silicon Valley do, you need to adjust yourself because the future global power China is preparing to take over interpretational sovereignty. What, then, can we say about what is to come? Do we have reason to rejoice? Do we need to be scared?

Writer for DIE ZEIT and technology...

Computers paint like Rembrandt, compose like Bach, write novels and poems. If it were up to digital corporations, this would be just the beginning. Artificial creativity is the new key objective: Machines are destined to become artists, as autonomous and gifted as people.

In his essay, Hanno Rauterberg describes the vigour with which this future art is being developed. And he...