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Smart cities and the imagined objectivity of data

Article
Sammy Kossen
21/12/2018
10 minutes to read

Smart Cities are not only about optimizing people's lives, but also lead to new forms of surveillance and directing people towards normative behavior. Big brother is watching you.

VSB Fund stops supporting prestigious Dutch literary prize

Column
Odile Heynders
29/08/2017
3 minutes to read

On 30 August 2017 the Dutch VSB Fund announced to stop financing the VSB Poetry Prize after this year’s (the 24th) edition. Poetry or ‘the volume of an individual’ is considered to not fit into the new policy. Odile Heynders does not agree.