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How BioShock makes you forget you’re playing a game (2K Games)

Review

Rebecca de Jongh

6 minutes to read

13/10/2023

BioShock's narrative and clever game design fully immerse you into its story. You forget you are playing a game until suddenly the game makes you painfully aware you were never truly in control...

Politieke correctheid blijft een canard (Gerben Bakker, Gert Jan Geling)

Review

Jan Blommaert

02/04/2019

17 minutes to read

De auteurs van "Over Politieke Correctheid" beweren een analytische en genuanceerde duiding van PC te geven. Maar ze schreven een studie zonder object, zonder actoren en zonder processen.

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The age of surveillance capitalism ( Shoshana Zuboff)

Review

Ico Maly

13/02/2019

12 minutes to read

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff deserves a productive public and academic debate. It should not only be read and discussed by a broad audience. Scholars across disciplines must engage with it.

Het gevaar van angst. Hypochonderen in Fukushima (Tinkebell)

Review

Inge van de Ven

11/12/2018

8 minutes to read

In 'Het gevaar van Angst. Hypochonderen' in Fukushima gebruikt kunstenares Tinkebell het in 2011 door de kernramp getroffen Japanse gebied als haar persoonlijke speeltuin

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Straatpolitiek (Femke Kaulingfreks)

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Jan Blommaert

19/03/2018

12 minutes to read

Femke Kaulingfreks legt in Straatpolitiek een hele wereld bloot waarin aan politiek wordt gedaan buiten de formele instellingen om. ze roept op om die vormen van informele politiek ernstig te nemen als onderdeel van een verbeterde democratie.

The Help (Movie director: Tate Taylor. Book author: Kathryn Stockett)

Review

Julia van der Staak

23/05/2018

7 minutes to read

The movie 'The Help', first released in 2011, is based on the well known and like-named novel, by Kathryn Stockett. The story is a good portrayal of multiculturalism and inequality within the American society of the 1960s.

Welcome to the Clone Club of Orphan Black (Graeme Manson and John Fawcett )

Review

Amber van As

16/05/2018

5 minutes to read

The science fiction series Orphan Black is all about human cloning and its consequences, which is still a controversial topic in science. This article provides a review of the impressive and informative series.

Why you should read "Darkness at noon" (Arthur Koestler)

Review

Nataliia Vdovychenko

12/02/2018

7 minutes to read

Certain kinds of literature cannot be forgotten. Darkness at noon is a must read for everyone who values high quality novels and wants to learn more about the Soviet Union, revolution and history in general.

Het empathisch teveel van Ignaas Devisch

Over Het Empathisch Teveel (Ignaas Devisch)

Review

Jan Blommaert

05/02/2018

9 minutes to read

Het Empathisch Teveel is een in your face argument tegen zij die denken dat de wereld zal gered worden door warme gevoelens van naastenliefde alleen.

The long season: I am alive because I'm not dead (Leonard Retel Helmrich )

Review

Odile Heynders

15/01/2018

4 minutes to read

The narrative of The Long Season is impressive and affective as a story of poverty, lack of prospect, and irrational hope. The documentary is magnificent in its focus on the details of social life, says Odile Heynders (Tilburg University).

Dit is Londen (Ben Judah)

Review

Jan Blommaert

10/11/2017

5 minutes to read

In "Dit is London" schetst Ben Judah de Unheimlichkeit van superdiversiteit.

Catfish: The TV Show (MTV)

Review

Irene de Groot

01/11/2017

3 minutes to read

In Catfish: the TV show hosts Nev and Max help people who are head over heels about someone they met online. A review.

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (E.M. Forster)

Review

Vanda Vozarikova

23/10/2017

4 minutes to read

Could a story from over 100 years ago have predicted today's reality? Read this to discover more about the visionary E.M. Forster truly was. A contemporary reading of E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops.