Day: June 12, 2025
A day in the life of a bottle collector
A regular Wednesday afternoon at Roskilde Festival’s central refund station. Dealing with hundreds of items for each person, the wait in line usually lasts several hours. Intro: Roskilde Festival is more than ‘just a music festival’ – they say There’s an ongoing joke in Denmark: once a year, ‘Roskilde Festival’ becomes the fourth largest city…
When nourishment leads to starvation
Öland is an ancient island located off the Swedish coast. Protected by UNESCO, it has been home to humans for about 5,000 years and hosts archeological sites dating back to the prehistoric period. As per the islanders’ custom, Öland has preserved its agricultural landscape and traditions dating as far back as the Iron Age and…
I just want to be normal!
Agathe was waiting for me at the door. As always, I was running late. While brushing my teeth, I took my bag from my room and remembered that before leaving I wanted to clean some dirt that I felt when I was taking care of the plants. Rushing and with Couto foam dripping from the…
Unifying protest | Eurozine
On 6 May 2024, a coalition of students from UvA, Vrije Universiteit (VU), and Amsterdam University College (AUC) established a Gaza solidarity encampment on the Roeterseilandcampus. Their demands included transparency regarding the university’s ties with Israeli institutions and the cessation of collaborations with entities implicated in human rights violations. (Open letter, UvA, Het Parool, Folia)…
Neither here nor there | Eurozine
We are many Severinosand our destiny’s the same:to soften up these stonesby sweating over them,trying to bring to lifea dead and deader land,to try to wrest a farmout of burnt-over land.But, so that Your Excellenciescan recognise me betterand be able to follow betterthe story of my life,I’ll be the Severinoyou’ll now see emigrate. The Death…
AI, Media Literacy, and the Next Generation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant concept. Although it has existed for decades in various forms – from basic automation to advanced machine learning –, its development has now reached a new frontier. More specifically, in recent years, generative AI, a type of AI that can create original content, has made significant advancements.…
