Essay · Philosophy
No one thinks alone
The myth of the solitary genius collapses the moment you ask where an idea actually comes from.
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Philosophy · Mind · Society · Culture · History
Daniel Okoro
Ideas have addresses. He goes looking for them.
Daniel writes on where thinking actually happens — in rooms, in arguments, in the company of other people. Before Nyirobi he spent a decade in archives, which he says taught him mostly about what gets thrown away.
- 5 essays
- Lagos
- Writing since 2018
daniel.nyirobi.orgBluesky
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5 in allEssay · Mind
On the edge of memory
What neuroscience and poetry both know about the moment a recollection slips away.
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Essay · Society
The commons we forgot
Shared things are easy to lose and very hard to rebuild once they are gone.
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Essay · Culture
In praise of difficult books
The work a hard text demands of you is not the obstacle. It is the entire point.
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Essay · History
A short history of forgetting
Societies decide, often quite deliberately, what they will allow themselves to remember.
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No one thinks alone. The solitary genius is a story told afterwards.