Category: Authors
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Whispers of Vanity: Unmasking the Hopes and Dreams in Wilde’s Classic
Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray “He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul.” The Picture of Dorian Gray is an aesthetic book that is a treat for anyone who enjoys philosophy, literature, and the arts. The book goes into all…
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Longing for a Fantastical ‘Home’
Self-Reflections on the Problematics for a Queer Tourist and Future Expat in Budapest “And when I’m back in Chicago, I feel it Another version of me, I was in it Oh, I wave goodbye to the end of beginning” (Djo 2022 “End of Beginning”) In early 2024, the song “End of Beginning” by the artist…
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The Ethopolitics of Reproduction
Biopolitical strategies and their effects on the reproductive choices of people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and carriers for genetic conditions (Content Warning: This essay discusses eugenics, abortion, ableism, disability, chronic illness and genetic conditions in a manner which might be uncomfortable or upsetting for some readers.) “We face discrimination every day in schools, in the…
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Reviewing Timothy Morton’s Being Ecological
As the title suggests, Timothy Morton’s Being Ecological is a book about ecology. However, in a sense, the book tries to do more than simply presenting a philosophical, anthropological, or biological perspective on ecology. It tries to give an expansive critique on the way in which a lot of ecological thought is structured, and why…
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Accept to Lose: A Nine-Step Program
Film and Philosophy: Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Dream Journal of the Family Hoover Jonathan Dayton (director of Little Miss Sunshine): ‘‘Our culture is so built on the idea of chasing our dream. […] But then this [film] is about what happens when those dreams don’t come true and what’s left’’ (Cinema Therapy 2024, 6:14). ‘‘Little…
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Sowing Seeds of the Future
I hope for a Future when We can just be, when We don’t have to choose an identity, when We can exist in Our complexity, I hope for a Future when We can be free, of every division, class, and category, restacking the deck, of history, I hope for a Future without hostility, when We…
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The Hopes and Dreams of a Student in a Foreign Country
There is a Portuguese word for a melancholic feeling of remembrance, of longing for someone or something that has been past, the absence of a once pleasing experience that is currently not being lived. The word is Saudade. It cannot be translated very well, and perhaps that is what makes it so dear to all…
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Nijmegen for Palestine: Demands for Radboud University
Nijmegen for Palestine (NFP) has made the point clear: Radboud must suspend ties with Israeli universities. And yet our university does not listen. In order to give NFP the space to express themselves and provide a detailed and nuanced account of their demands, I interviewed some members, and asked them about their organisation: who is…
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The Fall of Western Puritanical Morality as a Descriptor of Cultural Variation
Introduction Cultural evolution is a notion that describes social practices and beliefs as continually changing. While humans are in a continuous process of biological evolution, their sociocultural practices are also transforming. Particularly, practices of puritanical morality are changing due to cultural evolution. These are practices whereby one’s actions align with cultural standards of what is…
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Uses of Dialogue; or, Why We Love Plato
The author would like to thank Kyrke Otto and the Splijtstof editorial team for their valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper. Why do we love Plato? To the historian of philosophy, this must come across as a strange, if not out-of-place question. Not because he or she would necessarily deny its premise,…