Veilig schuilen: waarom volwassenen zich massaal verkleden als cartoonheld
De politie in Utrecht deed dit weekend een oproep aan alle als stripheld, filmacteur of gamekarakter verklede bezoekers van de tiende Dutch Comic C...
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Mindfulness? Je kunt ook te veel aandacht hebben voor jezelf
In het tijdschriftenschap stond een nieuw blad, met een vrouw erop die zat te mediteren in een ruimte met een plant, een grenen kist en een glas wa...
‘Drive My Car’ Oscar Is a Slow-Burn Return for Japan’s Cinema
But some of the same qualities that made the film popular overseas have led to a cooler reception domestically.
“Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.”
To what writer, besides Ayn Rand, do the business-minded techies and tech-minded businessmen of 21st-century Silicon Valley look for their inspiration? The name of Samuel Beckett may not, at first, strike you as an obvious answer — unless, of course, you know the origin of the phrase “Fail better.” It appears five times in Beckett’s 1983 story “Worstward Ho,” the first of which goes like this: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” The sentiment seems to resonate naturally with the mentality demanded in the world of tech startups, where nearly every venture ends in failure but failure which may well contain the seeds of future success.
First the body. No. First the place. No. First both. Now either. Now the other. Sick of the either try the other. Sick of it back sick of the either. So on. Somehow on. Till sick of both. Throw up and go. Where neither. Till sick of there. Throw up and back. The body again. Where none. The place again. Where none. Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good. Go for good. Where neither for good. Good and all.
Capitalism’s all very well, but not when I’m the product | Comment | …
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There is something bizarrely hypercapitalistic about this urge to hone ourselves into our highest form. Don’t get me wrong: I do not object to capitalism when it offers me a wide range of soups in the local Tesco. But I am rather less enthused about capitalism when I am the product. Or perhaps this is not a capitalist but rather a quasi-religious instinct. Recently 89 per cent of users of the dating app Hinge declared that they would be more likely to go on a second date with someone who mentioned on the first date that they go to therapy. The message is a primitive and primal one: you are a fallen sinner, and by your efforts you will know redemption.
‘Shaggy Cow, Hyrkin Farm (II)’, Peter Hujar, 1978 | Tate
Artwork page for ‘Shaggy Cow, Hyrkin Farm (II)’, Peter Hujar, 1978
Shaggy Cow, Hyrkin Farm (II) c.1969–85 is a black and white square-format photograph by the American photographer Peter Hujar
The Very Possibility of Nuclear War
I have said over the past two weeks that the war in Ukraine has left me “speechless”. But I have not been entirely forthcoming about the deepest causes of this condition. It is true that I am horrified by all the destruction and death; I am worried about people I know and care about trapped inside Ukraine (and inside Russia); I am conventionally worried about the ravages of conventional war. Yet my deeper dread does not stop with conventional war, but with what this war may become if it escalates.
let’s be honest, time is almost certainly illusory, or not at all what we think it is, and so for our world to end “at time T”, as the philosophers say, in no way negates the reality of everything that happened at time T-minus-1. The past is real. Every event, properly understood, is eternal.
Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil - Mad In America
Do we ever take the time to truly challenge the principles we’ve inherited, to ensure they stand up to our own individual scrutiny?
Hannah] Arendt viewed our relationship to the world. We live and think not in isolation, Arendt argues, but in an interconnected web of social and cultural relations — a framework of shared languages, behaviors, and conventions that we are conditioned by every single day.
A Tiny Brontë Book, Lost for a Century, Resurfaces
A miniature book made by the 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë, to go on sale next month for $1.25 million, contains what may be her last unknown poems.
How Much Do Things Really Cost?
True Price, a Dutch nonprofit, aims to help us grasp the real costs of consumption.
My autistic teenager seems to have given up on life | The Times
i too suffer from pathological demand avoidance but the ones who are trying to get me to do things suffer more.
‘Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan’ Is Epic Tale Of Blarney And Braggadocio
Like Joyce's Ulysses, Julien Temple's Crock Of Gold is epic in length and scope.
Julian Barnes — my book is ‘probably offensive to most Christians
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Four Ways Sadness May Be Good for You
Scientists are finding out how sadness works in the brain—and they're discovering that it can confer important advantages.
The Itch
What if you started itching—and couldn’t stop?
Tehching Hsieh
No Art: een jaar lang verbood hij zichzelf om naar kunst te kijken, erover te praten, schrijven of lezen. Sinds het jaar 2000 is hij naar eigen zeggen met pensioen.
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Mondriaan en Malevitsj: utopist versus nihilist
150 jaar Mondriaan: Piet Mondriaan en Kazimir Malevitsj waren beiden pioniers in geometrische schilderkunst. Maar hun wereldbeeld verschilde compleet.
Doubting death: how our brains shield us from mortal truth
The brain seems to categorise death as something that only befalls other people
Still from 'Police judiciaire' (Maurice de Canonge, 1958).
Fed Up With Google, Conspiracy Theorists Turn to DuckDuckGo
wtf duck duck go is just bing??!
russia invades ukraine
would it be facetious to say i preferred the pandemic?
My streaming gem: why you should watch Obaltan
The latest in our series of writers highlighting lesser-known films is a recommendation for a Korean classic available on YouTube
Does life flash before your eyes? Brain scan of dying man suggests it’s possible
Scientists report unexpected brain activity in patient, 87, as he died from heart attack
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Vodka, slaaptekort en nostalgie in de trein naar Moermansk
About a new movie by Juho Kuosmanen set on a Russian train in 1996. Interview with the director (also in Dutch) here :
The Bad Ideas Our Brains Can’t Shake
Why people are so stupid.
Euthanasie lite
Het levenseinde verzachten met palliatieve sedatie is prima, maar iets anders dan zelfverkozen euthanasie. ‘terminale sedatie’
The perfect storm
About the sounds made by wind, and wires. and other things. And not a mention of Alan whose name was not Mutton but Lamb.
A perfect storm
About the sounds made by wind.
What is annihilation?
it’s when a particle and an anti-particle meet… 🤓
Met je broek achterstevoren door het behang.
Carnaval gaat los, maar liever niet te massaal en zonder Randstedelingen. Vier feest in je eigen omgeving, ga lekker naar het café, maar mijd grote menigten, is het advies van zorgminister Ernst Kuipers.