Solutionism, individualism and surveillant anxiety
Column
Piia Varis
15/06/2018
8 minutes to read
Five years after the Snowden revelations, we're still more concerned with technological solutionism and individualistic models of privacy than addressing privacy as a common good.
Five years after the Snowden revelations, we're still more concerned with technological solutionism and individualistic models of privacy than addressing privacy as a common good.
The current refugee debate in the EU has been deeply influenced by a small handful of iconic pictures documenting the predicament of refugees and highlighting the moral positions in the debate.
The Frida Kahlo Barbie shows us how brands can fail miserably in their search for authenticity. This article dives into the Frida Kahlo Barbie case. What caused the controversy? And what defines a real, thought leading brand to us?
The new European GDPR generalizes the notion of the "data subject". But what exactly is the data subject? And how does it fit into a regulation which is fundamentally about the trading of Big Data?
In the question and answer session of the NPC (National People's Congress) a journalist rolled her eyes. In other countries, these eye rolls may be just funny, but not in China.
De VPRO Tegenlicht documentaire Trollen, Trump & Thierry slaagt er niet om het ‘Kekistani’ narratief te doorgronden en reproduceert de Nieuw Rechtse visie op de wereld.
Trollen sluipen overal de politieke mainstream binnen. Trump retweet hun memes, mainstream kranten reproduceren lulz en de ondervoorzitter van jong N-VA probeert tevergeefs trol en N-VA politicus te zijn. Alles over de politieke trol-strategie.
As one of the most traumatic losses we can experience, how should the loss of home be remembered? One highly controversial exhibit tries to answer this question.
Digitalisering en globalisering vragen om multidisciplinariteit in de geesteswetenschappen, om openheid en een kritische houding, zo zegt Odile Heynders (Tilburg Universiteit).
