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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky
Read more: Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation with Noam ChomskyWhat happens when one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century and one of the dreamiest film directors of the 21st century meet each other? That is the starting point of the quirky documentary Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, in which director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)) employs…
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Writer’s Block is recruiting!
by NewsRead more: Writer’s Block is recruiting!That’s right, we are looking for someone to complete our editorial board. If you haven’t heard from us before: we are an English students’ magazine for creative writing, film and literature at the University of Amsterdam. We publish a magazine multiple times a year and write a wide variety of website articles. We are currently…
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The Ethics of Ambiguity: Recognition Revisited
Read more: The Ethics of Ambiguity: Recognition RevisitedOn overcoming small battles In The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), Simone de Beauvoir argues that in every relationship – whether it’s between friends, family or anyone else – there is always a distance between two people; a certain small battle and a certain instinct to deny each other as subjective beings that must be…
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The Power of Ordinary People: An Interview with Patrick Ness
Read more: The Power of Ordinary People: An Interview with Patrick NessA few weeks ago, the American Book Center here in Amsterdam organized a Skype interview with Patrick Ness, award-winning author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and the soon-to-be-filmed A Monster Calls. The interview, which took place at the ABC Treehouse, mostly focused on Ness’s latest release, The Rest of Us Just Live Here –…
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Unnecessarily Gendered
Read more: Unnecessarily GenderedAs a feminist and someone who is interested in gender theory, I like to observe how gender plays out in our society. A while ago, I found an advertisement on the internet for – yes – manly detergent. The ad was an overdose of robust, dark colours, earthy patterns and vintage pictures of men in…
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