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Visakan Veerasamy is the author of Introspect. Paul Millerd is the author of The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story for Work and Life (explore this topic now in an upcoming salon!). Below, they discuss thinking and writing online, how they imagine their readers, and how they see publishing a

We can only imagine the spectrum of brutalities and love known by painter Remedios Varo, though the peace-seeking qualities of her riveting body of work suggest depths of first-hand experience with human nature, and a choice to paint towards harmony with enormous questions. Her painting Creation of the Birds is

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. -William Blake I was sat on an an old sofa somewhere in east Berlin. Uncomfortable and battered, it served as a cheap metaphor for my current condition. With only a few hours sleep the night before, I felt

This essay was submitted by Loopy. You can find Loopy on twitter @strangestloop. How do I even begin to capture the thrill and the fervor and the joy that a 20-year old fighting game and its competitive scene stoke within me? It’s a fool’s errand, yet I am

Something that has been on my mind is the mental universe I occupied immediately after my brain was severely injured in a car accident a few years ago. I want to use this opportunity to begin teasing it apart. There was something incredibly spiritual about the short time period in

Although I run workshops and focus groups in my day job, there was something about hosting a salon that made me nervous. I enjoy moderating research groups for the same reason I enjoy presenting or acting. It’s a frame, a concealment. Hosts, on the other hand, have to make

Being an artist is kind of a new thing for me. I’ve been making art since I was a child and I studied it at university, but I only started doing it professionally since around April 2021 and I’m still figuring out my path, who I am as