arketyp. Journal

Artists are bringing back Amabie, a ‘yōkai’ associated with protection from disease. In the first half of 1846, a kawaraban, or cheaply printed broadside, recorded a strange account in Japan’s old Higo Province on Kyūshū […]

The biggest mystery in Philip Pullman’s books is an enigmatic substance called Dust, which comes right out of current debates among scientists about the theory of panpsychism Nautilus sat down with Pullman at his home […]

IIn this new decade, the spectre of rave manifests itself online and spreads through the digital network like a virus The moment the beat comes in is pure bliss. The tension disappears and gives way […]

Peter Thiel reviews Ross Douthat’s new book “The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success” Are we making progress? Not so much, Douthat answers. Baby boomers will wince at his title, […]

An artwork that appeared on the side of a house in Bristol has been confirmed as the work of street artist Banksy The piece features a stencil of a girl firing red flowers made with […]

Alter 3 is a robot conductor of a new ‘Android Opera’, by Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya, entitled Scary Beauty The orchestral piece, which was performed in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, last week. Right in the […]

Fanfic used to be a joke — now it’s teaching kids important skills like learning how to write In the past 20 years, over 60 billion words of fan fiction have been written and posted […]

As Illustrator and journalist Arthur Jones discovers in the new documentary Feels Good Man, the phenomenon of Pepe the Frog becoming an icon of white supremacy is both impossible to imagine, and completely explainable Jones […]