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Magnificent humanity in the age of artificial intelligence
(8 minutes) “The future of AI is not solely about what machines become. It is about what human beings become alongside them”, argues Edward A. David after reading Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical Magnifica humanitas.
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“I believe cinema is currently undergoing a clear transition”
(5 minutes) Pablo Alzola Cerero tells Adamah Media how he discovered the connection between philosophy and cinema and how films can offer valuable insights into our present lives.
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Journey’s end: has tourism had its day?
(4 minutes) Leisure travel needs a Christian sense, argues Joseph Evans, to save it from being mere exploitative tourism and even from its own demise.
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Consumer safari: the semiotics of shop windows
(6 minutes) Does luxury fashion add to or strip us of our identity? Walking down Via Tornabuoni in Florence leads Monica Sharp to ask some tough questions.
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“The crisis of democracy is above all a crisis of listening”: why politics is becoming ever more polarized
(5 minutes) Catalan philosopher Jaime Nubiola is concerned about the growth of polarization in our society and the loss of the sense of facts.
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“I don’t even think you’re real”: the embodied woman as mere spectacle
(8 minutes) Mary Rose describes how women can feel when they are reduced in the eyes of some to their body.
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Urban nihilism and the Culture of Spectacle
(4 minutes) Recent disturbances in South London reveal a deeper shift: how young people are formed, and where they derive meaning and status. Jide Ehizele explains.
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Stuck Culture: why so many modern films fail to inspire
(6 minutes) The rejection of transcendent values is leading to an ever more hollow film industry, argues Joe Gillespie.
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How the wrong answer helps me to get it right
(4 minutes) Monica Sharp reflects on watching carefully, speaking sloppy Italian, and writing from the room she’s in.
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The people outside the box
(12 minutes) Denise Trull explains how she learnt to roll away the stone of her prejudices to experience a resurrection in her relations with ‘the others’.
