''Aeon'' is a
digital magazine of
idea
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s, philosophy and culture. Publishing new articles every weekday, Aeon describes itself as a publication which "asks the biggest questions and finds the freshest, most original answers, provided by world-leading authorities on science, philosophy and society."
The magazine is published by Aeon Media Group, which has offices in
London
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,
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
, and
Melbourne
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.
History
''Aeon'' was founded in
London
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in September 2012 by Paul and Brigid Hains, an Australian couple.
It now has offices in London,
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
and
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
.
On 1 July 2016, ''Aeon'' became a
registered charity
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with the
Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission
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, in the categories of advancing culture and advancing education. Aeon also registered its affiliate, Aeon America, as
a 501(c)(3) charity in the US, in the education category. In April 2020 Aeon launched a sister site,
''Psyche'' magazine, named for the
Psyche
Psyche (''Psyché'' in French) is the Greek term for "soul" (ψυχή).
Psyche may also refer to:
Psychology
* Psyche (psychology), the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious
* ''Psyche'', an 1846 book about the unconscious by Car ...
concept in
psychology
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, which publishes ideas, guides and videos on psychology,
philosophy
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and
the arts
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. Â
Format
''Aeon''s content consists of
long-form, in-depth essays and short
documentaries
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under the banner of Aeon Video. ''Aeon'' also used to publish Aeon Ideas, which consisted of short-form articles. These are now published on the new publication, Psyche.
''Aeon'' Video
''Aeon'' Video's program is composed of curated selections, short documentaries that are exclusive to ''Aeon'', and original series produced by ''Aeon''. The most notable of these is the ''In Sight'' series, which features interviews and discussions with leading philosophers, scientists, thinkers and writers.
Several of ''Aeon''s exclusives have been chosen as
Vimeo
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Staff Picks, including Dramatic and Mild, American Renaissance, Grandpa and Me and a Helicopter to Heaven, Cutting Loose, Glas, and World Fair.
Contributors
Contributors have included
Peter Adamson,
Alain Badiou
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,
Julian Baggini
Julian Baggini (; born 1968) is a philosopher, journalist and the author of over 20 books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is co-founder of ''The Philosophers' Magazine'' and has written for numerous international newspapers ...
,
Philip Bal,
Shahidha Bari
Shahidha Bari is a British academic, critic and broadcaster, born 1980. She is a professor at the University of the Arts London based at London College of Fashion. She is a host of the topical arts television programme ''Inside Culture'' on BBC T ...
,
Sven Birkerts
Sven Birkerts (born 21 September 1951) is an American essayist and literary critic. He is best known for his book ''The Gutenberg Elegies'' (1994), which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other tec ...
,
Armand D'Angour
Armand D'Angour (born 23 November 1958) is a British classical scholar and classical musician, Professor of Classics at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. His research embraces a wide range of areas acros ...
,
David Deutsch
David Elieser Deutsch ( ; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of ...
,
Vincent T. DeVita
Vincent Theodore DeVita Jr. (born March 7, 1935) is the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at Yale Cancer Center, and a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. He directed the Yale Cancer Center from 1993 to 2003. He has been pre ...
,
Frans de Waal
Franciscus Bernardus Maria "Frans" de Waal (born October 29, 1948) is a Dutch primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, ...
,
Vincenzo Di Nicola
Vincenzo Di Nicola is an Italian-Canadian psychologist, psychiatrist and family therapist, and philosopher of mind.
Di Nicola is a tenured Full Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine at the University of Montreal, where he fo ...
, David Dobbs,
Tim Footman
Tim Footman (born 1968) is an English author, journalist and editor. He was educated at Churcher's College, Appleby College in Canada, the University of Exeter, and Birkbeck University.
He is the author of a number of books about popular music, ...
,
Allen Frances
Allen J. Frances (born 2 October 1942) is an American psychiatrist. He is currently Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. He is best known for serving as cha ...
,
Karl J Friston,
Jessa Gamble
Jessa Gamble (born April 25, 1979), née Sinclair, is a Canadian and English author and co-owner of the science blog The Last Word on Nothing. Her book, ''The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time'' (Penguin Group), documents ...
,
Michael Graziano
Michael Steven Anthony Graziano (born May 22, 1967) is an American scientist and novelist who is currently a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University.Toby Green
Toby Green is a British historian who is a Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King's College London. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in African studies at the University of Birmingham. He is Chair of the Fo ...
,
Pekka Hämäläinen,
Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder (born 1976) is a German theoretical physicist, author, musician and YouTuber. She is currently employed as a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. She is the author of ''Lost in Math: How Beauty Le ...
,
A.L. Kennedy
Alison Louise Kennedy (born 22 October 1965) is a Scottish writer, academic and stand-up comedian. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction, and is known for her dark tone and her blending of realism and fantasy. She contributes columns ...
,
Marek Kohn
Marek Kohn is a British science writer on evolution, biology and society.
Early life and education
Kohn holds an undergraduate degree in neurobiology from the University of Sussex, a PhD from the University of Brighton and has held fellowship ...
,
Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. She is the author of four works of non-fiction, ''To the River'', ''The Trip to Echo Spring,'' '' The Lonely City'', and ''Everybody'', as well as an essay colle ...
,
Janna Levin
Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is an American theoretical cosmologist and a professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most count ...
,
Tim Lott
Tim Lott (born 23 January 1956) is a British author. He worked as a music journalist and ran a magazine publishing business, launching ''Flexipop'' magazine in 1980 with ex-''Record Mirror'' journalist Barry Cain.
Early life and education
In 1 ...
,
Mahmood Mamdani
Mahmood Mamdani, FBA (born 23 April 1946) is an Indian-born Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator. He currently serves as the Chancellor of Kampala International University, Uganda. He was the director of the Makerere Institute o ...
,
Francis T. McAndrew
Francis T. "Frank" McAndrew (b. January 27, 1953 – Augsburg, Germany) is an American social psychologist and the Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology at Knox College (Illinois), Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. At Knox, he founded the ...
,
George Musser
George Musser (born 1965) is a contributing editor for ''Scientific American'' magazine in New York and the author of ''The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory'' and of ''Spooky Action at a Distance''.
Biography
Musser did his undergraduate ...
,
Alondra Nelson
Alondra Nelson (born April 22, 1968) is an American policy advisor, non-profit administrator, academic, and writer. She is the Harold F. Linder Chair and Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, an independen ...
,
Wendy Orent,
David Papineau
David Papineau (; born 1947) is a British academic philosopher, born in Como, Italy. He works as Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London and the City University of New York Graduate Center, and previously taught for several y ...
,
Ruth Padel
Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, known for her poetic explorations of migration, both animal and human, and her involvement with classical music, wildlife conservation and Greece, ancient and modern. ...
,
Massimo Pigliucci
Massimo Pigliucci (; born January 16, 1964) is Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York, former co-host of the '' Rationally Speaking Podcast'', and former editor in chief for the online magazine ''Scientia Salon''. He is a critic o ...
,
Steven Poole
Steven Poole (born 1972) is a British author and journalist. He particularly concerns himself with the abuse of language and has written two books on the subject: ''Unspeak'' (2006) and ''Who Touched Base In My Thought Shower?'' (2013).
Biograph ...
,
John Quiggin
John Quiggin (born 29 March 1956) is an Australian economist, a professor at the University of Queensland. He was formerly an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Federation Fellow and a member of the board of the Climate Change Aut ...
,
Emma Rothschild,
Claudio Saunt
Claudio Saunt (born 1967) is a professor, author, and historian of early America, the U.S. South, and Native American studies."Claudio Saunt." ''Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors''. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2015. Retrieved vie ''Gale In Co ...
,
Anil Seth
Anil Kumar Seth is a British professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex.
Early life and education
Seth was born in England. His father, Bhola Seth, obtained a BSc from Allahabad University in 1945, befor ...
,
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947) is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include ''Longitude'', about English clockmaker John Harrison, and '' Galileo's Daughter'', about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste, and ' ...
,
Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Vernon Scruton (; 27 February 194412 January 2020) was an English philosopher and writer who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.
Editor from 1982 t ...
,
Eric Schwitzgebel,
Camilla Townsend
Camilla Townsend (born January 29, 1965) is an American historian and professor of history at Rutgers University. She specializes in the early history of Native Americans in the United States, as well as in the history of Latin America. Her 2019 ...
,
Nigel Warburton
Nigel Warburton (; born 1962) is a British philosopher. He is best known as a populariser of philosophy, having written a number of books in the genre, but he has also written academic works in aesthetics and applied ethics.
Education
Warburton r ...
,
Margaret Wertheim
Margaret Wertheim (born 20 August 1958) is an Australian-born science writer, curator, and artist based in the United States. She is the author of books on the cultural history of physics, and has written about science, including for the ''New Yo ...
,
E.O. Wilson, and
Ed Yong
Edmund Soon-Weng Yong (born 17 December 1981) is a British-American science journalist. He is a staff member at ''The Atlantic'', which he joined in 2015. In 2021 he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-1 ...
.
Critical reception
Editorial director Brigid Hains won the
Australasian Association of Philosophy
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's Media Professionals' Award in 2018.
Margaret Wertheim's essay "How to play mathematics" is featured in the anthology ''Best Writing on Mathematics 2018'', published by
Princeton University Press
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The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial su ...
.
Rebecca Boyle's essay "The end of night" was featured in the
anthology
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In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ...
''
The Best American Science and Nature Writing
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2015'', under the title "The Health Effects of a World without Darkness".
Jessa Gamble
Jessa Gamble (born April 25, 1979), née Sinclair, is a Canadian and English author and co-owner of the science blog The Last Word on Nothing. Her book, ''The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time'' (Penguin Group), documents ...
's essay "The end of sleep?" was named the best feature of 2013 by the
Association of British Science Writers
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.
In 2013, Hamish McKenzie of ''
Pando Daily
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History
PandoDaily was started by former TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy on January 16, 2012 ...
'' named Aeon the 'best example of a magazine built for the age of mobile'.
Many Aeon essays have been featured in the
National Geographic
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Top Science Longreads: Ross Andersen's essay "
The vanishing groves" was featured in 2012, and his essay
Omens was featured in 2013; Lee Billingsâ€
essay"Drive-thru astronomy" was featured in 2013; and Veronique Greenwood's essay
Cows might fly was also featured in 2013.
Partnerships
Aeon has had partnerships with several organisations and publications, including the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
:
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is a research centre at the University of Cambridge, intended to study possible extinction-level threats posed by present or future technology. The co-founders of the centre are Huw Price (Be ...
,
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.
The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial su ...
,
MIT Press
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History
The MIT Press traces its origins back to 1926 when MIT publish ...
and
HowTheLightGetsIn Festival. It has an audio partnership with the audio app
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Creative Commons republication
The now-discontinued Ideas articles are available for republication under a
Creative Commons
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license.
These pieces have been syndicated by online media outlets such as ''
The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
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References
External links
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