Automaton Automaton The Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the world's first computer. Made of bronze, containing over thirty interlocking gears, and hailing from Athens in the period between Plato and Christ. Its purpose? Enter a date, and receive a flurry of astrological and calendrical information, including the positions of the
Featured Renaissance, pt. 2 We look back on the Renaissance as a period of glory: Dante and da Vinci, Michelangelo and Medici. But Renaissance wouldn't have been possible without catastrophe. The Fall of Constantinople led to a refugee crisis. These refugees, many of them scholars, likely brought the texts of Greek antiquity
Renaissance Meditating Under a Tree: Conversation with Natalya Nova Natalya Nova is a New York–based artist. Her work resists categorization, which is fine with her, as she doesn't like being put in any boxes. Her work combines photography, writing, painting, and as we discuss, she's experimenting with incorporating AI art. In the following conversation,
Renaissance Featured Renaissance, pt. 1 Eleven pieces of quality creative writing on the theme of societal Renaissance, accompanied by original AI artwork.
Renaissance Shadow Psychedelia: Interview with Antero Alli Conversation on consciousness and film Noir with Antero Alli, OG consciousness explorer, and pioneer of the 8-circuit model of consciousness.
Underworld Issue Halloween: Past, Present, Future When I was a child, Halloween was a happy time. The day itself was a bounty of excitements, ending with me and my brother watching cartoons and gorging on the best candies (the chewy ones, the crunchy ones coated in chocolate). As we got older, we realized that if we
Featured September: Time anthology For our inaugural issue, we chose the theme of Time. We were inspired by Benjamin Worff's unpublished essay, ‘An American Indian Model of the Universe,’ where he discusses the Hopi language, which organizes time in an entirely different way than the Western mind is familiar with: The Hopi
Time Anthology On the Clock The horizon was gleaming metal and glass, broken up by screaming construction projects, the smell of exhaust, and brutalist facades from the 1970s, when the city was torn down and rebuilt as a monument to the future. I’d moved to Toronto as an experiment with capitalism. So far, it
