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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · 22h
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Edvard Aviles-Meza junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/10...
Imaginative Jailbreak and Phenomenal Overflow — The Junkyard
A post by Edvard Aviles-Meza Have a look at Raphael’s School of Athens (figure 1 below). During a quick glance, do you see each of the individuals depicted? Surely, you wouldn’t recognize them at...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · 7d
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Sarah Vernallis junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/9/...
Imaginative Choices in Empathy — The Junkyard
A post by Sarah Vernallis Empathy is an imaginative activity. When we succeed in empathizing, we come to understand what it is like for another person. But what role, exactly, does the imagination pl...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · 14d
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Lucia Oliveri junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/9/...
Imagine Learning Through Play — The Junkyard
A post by Lucia Oliveri Imagine a world destroyed by a thirty-year-long war, the most devastating war that seventeenth-century Europe had ever seen. Imagine standing in front of a destroyed land, lik...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · 21d
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Niklas Maranca junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/9/...
Touching Invisible Walls — The Junkyard
A post by Niklas Maranca Insight into the structure and approach of a practice-based PhD project on imagination This text traces a path from practice to research. It opens with three short scenes ...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · 28d
This week at The Junkyard: Seth Goldwasser reviews Melz Owusu's *Undisciplined* junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/9/...
The University in Crisis: A Review of Undisciplined: Reclaiming the Right to Imagine — The Junkyard
A post by Seth Goldwasser I never had the pleasure of meeting or speaking with Dr. Melz Owusu before his passing, which occurred after I had cited interest in reviewing his book. I’m deeply saddened ...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Sep 3
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Mark Windsor and Jakub Stejskal junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/8/...
In and out of touch with the past: the archaeological sublime — The Junkyard
A post by Mark Windsor and Jakub Stejskal Many of us are inexorably drawn to material remains of humanity’s deep past: we like to read about new archaeological finds and observe them up close in sit...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Jun 4
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Eric Peterson junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/6/...
Free Speech and Imagination — The Junkyard
A post by Eric Peterson Free speech is either a civil liberty essential for a flourishing liberal democracy or a threat to that very democracy, depending on who you ask. There are many arguments that...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · May 28
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Felipe Morales Carbonell junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/5/...
To imagine how, creatively — The Junkyard
A post by Felipe Morales Carbonell Note: This is a side-piece to a longer essay I am working on, which focuses on how imagination can help us learn how to do things or how to act. The topic here is ...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · May 21
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Brendan Bo O'Connor junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/5/...
Co-imagination: The future we imagine — The Junkyard
A post by Brendan Bo O’Connor Our future is not a foregone conclusion. It’s actively constructed at the horizon of the present. In a moment when the world feels divisive and isolating, I’d like to sh...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · May 14
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Tom Schoonen junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/5/...
It's not all about aboutness — The Junkyard
A post by Tom Schoonen It's been almost ten years since a great burst of logics of imagination appeared (depending on when you start counting, of course). The idea behind these formalisations is th...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · May 7
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Cassandra Vieten junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/5/...
The Power of Reimagining: How Imagination Can Reshape Our Past, Future, and Selves — The Junkyard
A post by Cassandra Vieten As a psychologist and researcher, my career has focused on how people change. In particular, I have investigated the experiences, practices, and environments that transform...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 30
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Nick Wiltsher junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/4/...
The value of epistemic imagining — The Junkyard
A post by Nick Wiltsher Here are three related claims to which I’m increasingly sympathetic: (1) Imagination has no distinctive epistemic ends. (2) The epistemic ends that can be pursued using imag...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 23
This week at the Junkyard: A post by Caterina Moruzzi junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/4/...
Imagining The Future of Creative Skills and Education — The Junkyard
A post by Caterina Moruzzi Imagine the near future of 2030 where AI has become deeply embedded in creative workflows. What does that future look like?​ This is one of the questions that ...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 17
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Heidi L. Maibom and Kyle Furlane junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/4/...
Getting our Shift Together: Empathy and Moral Gestalt Shifts — The Junkyard
A post by Heidi L. Maibom and Kyle Furlane In his essay Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell describes the following encounter with a fascist: “a man, presumably carrying a message to an officer, jum...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 9
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Shannon Spaulding junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/4/...
Trust and Empathy — The Junkyard
A post by Shannon Spaulding Can you have trust without understanding? This is not an esoteric question. It is a question directly relevant for the many politically and affectively polarized debates i...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 3
The Junkyard turns 8 today! Happy birthday to us! Over these last 8 years, we've run well over 400 posts from well over 200 different contributors, and we've garnered over 121K distinct visitors. Thanks to all our contributors and readers for helping to make this blog what it is.
A candle in the shape of the number 8, with red and yellow stripes, topped by a red and yellow flame.
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 2
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Radu Bumbăcea junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/3/...
Is mind-reading an intrusion? — The Junkyard
A post by Radu Bumbăcea The perfect mind-reader. When you go to the office in the morning, your colleague is already there: after saying hello, she scans you for a few seconds, tracks your eye and ...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Mar 26
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Catherine Wearing junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/3/...
Creative products and creative processes — The Junkyard
A post by Catherine Wearing Recent gains in the capabilities of generative AI systems pose a dilemma for our thinking about creativity. On the one hand, some of the products of these systems seem pre...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Mar 19
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Steve Humbert-Droz junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/3/...
Imagination─intelligence, a direct flight — The Junkyard
A post by Steve Humbert-Droz In this blog, the game consists of making as many connections between any topics and imagination as possible. Sometimes, like today, these connections seem almost scandal...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Mar 12
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Katia Franco junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/3/...
Imagination and honesty — The Junkyard
A post by Katia Franco Trust is a fragile thing, especially when it comes to trust in ourselves. Knowing as much as we do about ourselves, having to evaluate the constantly incoming evidence about ou...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Mar 5
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Zuzanna Rucińska
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Can you gaslight yourself? — The Junkyard
A post by Zuzanna Rucińska Gaslighting is a form of emotional manipulation in which “the gaslighter tries (consciously or not) to induce in someone a sense that her reactions, perceptions, memories a...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Feb 26
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/2/...
Synesthesia of Darkness and Silence: How an early modern Mexican nun may have understood concepts as synesthetic negations of sensation — The Junkyard
A post by Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s (1648-1695) Primero Sueño ( First Dream ) is an astonishing epistemological poem that follows the flight of an intellectual soul, freed fr...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Feb 20
This week at The Junkyard, we’re hosting a symposium on Rob Hopkins’ recent book: The Profile of Imagining (Oxford University Press, 2024). Today is a commentary from Margot Strohminger. junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/2/...
Book Symposium: Strohminger Commentary and Response — The Junkyard
This week at The Junkyard, we’re hosting a symposium on Rob Hopkins’ recent book: The Profile of Imagining (Oxford University Press, 2024) . On Monday, we began with an introduction from Rob...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Feb 19
This week at The Junkyard, we’re hosting a symposium on Rob Hopkins’ recent book: The Profile of Imagining (Oxford University Press, 2024). Today we have a commentary from Josh Myers. junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/2/...
Book Symposium: Myers Commentary and Response — The Junkyard
This week at The Junkyard, we’re hosting a symposium on Rob Hopkins’ recent book: The Profile of Imagining (Oxford University Press, 2024) . On Monday, we began with an introduction from Rob...
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the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Feb 18
This week at The Junkyard, we’re hosting a symposium on Rob Hopkins’ recent book: The Profile of Imagining (Oxford University Press, 2024). Today we have a commentary from Seth Goldwasser/ junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/2/...
Book Symposium: Goldwasser Commentary and Response — The Junkyard
This week at The Junkyard, we’re hosting a symposium on Rob Hopkins’ recent book: The Profile of Imagining (Oxford University Press, 2024) . Yesterday we began with an introduction from Rob ...
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