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The right policy for the wrong reasons
Since the collapse of socialism, demographic change has emerged as one of the biggest Rashomons of contemporary societies, especially in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Understood as a palpable concern by some and…
More than the line on a map
Borders define. Conventionally, they seem demarcated, set. If asked to draw your country’s border, you would likely produce a line.
But the political situations in nation states and regional unions often bring the…
Universalism in dark times | Eurozine
On 20 March, at the opening ceremony for the annual Leipzig Book Fair, the 2024 Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding was awarded to New School philosopher Omri Boehm for his book Radikaler Universalismus…
A Monstrous Return: The Unexpected Success of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.I am a shameless fan of Legendary’s Monsterverse. Just ask any of my students, who, throughout the day, have no less than ten meticulously painted kaiju…
Synen på ögat | Eurozine
Synen har sedan länge gärna betraktats som människans främsta och ädlaste sinne. Det har lämnat spĂĄr i sprĂĄket, som i meningen precis före den här: att betrakta nĂĄgot är bĂĄde att se pĂĄ det och att tänka pĂĄ det. Jag kan…
C. elegans och magkänslan | Eurozine
Säg att du gĂĄr ut för att köpa en ny vinterjacka. Du har en begränsad budget och efter att ha suttit och surfat har du fattat ett antal beslut i förväg: jackan mĂĄste ha en viss tjocklek, inga fĂĄniga dragskor i midjan och…
Europe poops in its own nest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L7-PdwVK0o
The universal experience of excretion has been with us for millennia, yet the topic is considered taboo in many cultures. Though some people are attempting to confront the…
Measuring the mobile body | Eurozine
Europe’s high-tech arsenal of border technologies is often narrated as a futuristic tale of light, speed and computing power. Identification systems such as the Eurodac database store, process and compare the digitized…
Pasti demodernizacije | Eurozine
Kapitalizem ni veÄŤ svetel Ĺľarek: nekoÄŤ vplivne drĹľave so tik pred tem, da se vpišejo med gospodarstva tretjega sveta; razvijajoÄŤe se sile niÄŤ veÄŤ ne stremijo k viziji Zahoda o napredku. Bi bilo mogoÄŤe ob izogibanju…
Dancing with TheWeightSaint: Richard Simmons’ (Surprisingly) Unsung Ministry
He never preaches about how the rest of us don’t live up to his high standards, yet through him, we are encouraged to be better humans inside and out.While most Catholics I know are talking about the new Mother Cabrini movie—the…