Cultural Criticism

2020-10-12T20:19:06+02:00

In het volgende interview met VPRO Tegenlicht vertelt de Duitse filosoof over het begrip vrijheid in onze hedendaagse samenleving. Erg interessant is zijn uitleg rond minuut 7 over …

2020-07-20T20:22:20+02:00

With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic I have spent most I my time at home, working and away from friends and family. I therefore have had to significantly make use of video chat for …

2020-07-06T14:09:02+02:00

Matt Alt at The New Yorker wrote a great piece about the Walkman, “the gadget that taught the world to socially distance”: Hosokawa noted how listeners used the devices to tame the …

2020-06-13T18:06:25+02:00

Ian Bogost and Alexis C. Madrigal wrote a fantastic piece at The Atlantic, “How Facebook Works for Trump”. In this article they explain how the systems developed by Facebook to …

2020-05-18T21:22:06+02:00

The following video essay on the “The Late Capitalism of K-Pop” by a Youtube channel called “Cuck Philosophy” gives some interesting historical insights on the development of …

2020-05-02T08:20:47+02:00

The current measures taken to contain the coronavirus pandemic have included the temporary closer of most offices around the world. An unprecedented event, with so many people …

2020-04-25T17:54:10+02:00

The Tropes vs Women in Video Games project is a fantastic series of video about “sexist patterns associated with female representations in games, and to illuminate how these …

2020-03-19T12:45:26+01:00

The Washington Post published a video that shows “How Fox News has shifted its coronavirus rhetoric”. For weeks, some of Fox News’s most popular hosts downplayed the threat of the …

2020-02-07T13:11:51+01:00

As a long time ago player of the online role-playing game World of Warcraft I found this video about “5 Ways Classic WoW Has Changed” quite interesting. The game is quite old but …

2020-01-25T10:31:21+01:00

Two interesting articles from the Economist 1843 magazine: In this article from the “Postscards from Silicon Valley” series the author discusses the “San Francisco’s Salesforce …