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  • The Redundancy of Memes

    The Redundancy of Memes

    April 22, 2017
    by Luc de Vries, WB Column

    Memes. What about ‘em? I dread them, that’s what. Luckily for me, my hate for the concept only boils up on a very superficial level, namely most of the stuff you go through on your social media feed: captioned pictures, short clips, inside jokes and puns that revolve around certain formulas and themes. However, the…

    Read more: The Redundancy of Memes
  • Realism and Dialogue

    Realism and Dialogue

    April 18, 2017
    by Tom van Veenendaal, WB Column

      “God,” declared a girl I once watched Network (1976) with, “who talks like that?” The only right answer is “no one”: the movie was rightly called out on its preposterously verbose dialogue, which nears parody. It is lucky that the next day I watched a John Ford western, with stiff, wooden but somehow believable…

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  • These Are a Few of My Favourite Words

    These Are a Few of My Favourite Words

    April 15, 2017
    by Anna de Boer, WB Column

    Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings. These are a few of my favorite things.  In life, it is the little things that make your day. Like Julie Andrews sang, these favourite things, the blue sky, the smell of freshly brewed…

    Read more: These Are a Few of My Favourite Words
  • Cult documentaries

    Cult documentaries

    April 11, 2017
    by Elise van der Linde, WB Column

      We’ve all seen those lists: “10 Cult films you have to watch!!!”, “5 of the best cult films ever!!!”, “You’re not a true film-lover until you’ve seen these cult films!!!”. Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, The Room, I’ve seen those lists and I am no longer impressed. What I personally would like…

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  • On Empathy

    On Empathy

    April 8, 2017
    by David Kleinsteuber, WB Column

    On Empathy On Fault Lines and Amy Coplan’s Experiential Understanding You open the window, smell the fresh spring breeze, gaze wistfully outside. Outside, finches gather in that tree you like, somewhere in the distance you see a bunny rabbit hop, and the sun shines so bright you can almost see the kid from Teletubbies hiding…

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