Category: Authors
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De prestatiemaatschappij – dat ben jij?
In het kader van 50 jaar Splijtstof reflecteren we in deze editie op hoe het studentenbestaan in de afgelopen decennia is veranderd. Hoe wordt er tegenwoordig tegen studenten aangekeken? Wat karakteriseert het studentenleven van vandaag? Er is een onderwerp dat de hedendaagse studententijd als geen ander bepaalt: studentenwelzijn. Dat staat namelijk onder druk. Tijdens de…
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Philosopher Abroad – Edges of Europe
In the module ‘Edges of Europe’ students learn about the intersections of citizenship, religion and identity. During our semester together, we explored many relevant problems, including the problem of nationalism and its exclusionary and violent tendencies. This article comprises a fierce debate navigating the problems of nationalism, refugees, inclusion and exclusion which have played a…
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Some Afterthoughts
“Without this restlessness, there is no progress” Aleksandra Kollontai, 1928 Friday, 3 June 2022, was the date of a remarkable event. On the occasion of her retirement, Veronica Vasterling had set up a meeting during which, in a first-round, younger staff members of our faculty gave a total of six presentations. They addressed, among others,…
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Off the Record – Veronica Vasterling
Voor deze jubileumeditie van Splijtstof interviewden we Veronica Vasterling. Zij is een lange tijd verbonden geweest aan de FFTR en hield zich in die tijd bezig met politieke filosofie, genderstudies en wijsgerige antropologie. Afgelopen jaar ging Veronica met pensioen — een uitgelezen kans om nog eens terug te blikken op meer dan 30 jaar FFTR.
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Becoming-Cyborg
Feminist and Postmodernist Metamorphoses Reconsidered The cyborg is a bad girl […] Maybe she is not so much bad as she is a shape-changer, whose dislocations are never free. She is a girl who’s trying not to become Woman, but remain responsible to women of many colors and positions.[1. Donna Haraway, Constance Penley, and Andrew…
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The Becoming of Art: A Cocreative Process
Introduction One of the most unexpected but gravest pains I have perhaps experienced in this lifetime thus far is when a piece of music got, according to me, violently interrupted by applause. The musical performance consisted of a group of people playing large drums. The deep drumming sounds drilled through my bones, and when the…
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Off the Record – Heleen Murre-van den Berg (part II)
First of all, congratulations on your appointment as the Dean of our faculty. [1. This interview was translated by Janneke Toonders en Mireille Kouevi. The interview took place in September of last year (2021); the text has been somewhat updated to reflect the context of early March 2022.] You have challenging times ahead of you.…
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“The Social Safety Care Club”
On the 7th of October 2021, four of my fellow students (Annabel, Hanna, Luka and Anneloes) and I, decided to found what would soon be called the Social Safety Care Club, or in short: SSCC. It all started in what may be familiar to any (ex-)Radboud student reading this, our beloved Culture Café. Cozily seated…
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Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublëv: A Dostoevskian Hero
Introduction Few literary writers have left their mark on the realm of thought and art as fiercely as Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose novels and stories have brought forth – with an incredible pathos and novelty – questions that are seared into the condition humaine. Dostoevsky’s feat to give flesh and blood to various philosophical, psychological and…
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Editorial
Dear Reader, To be honest with you, I have struggled with writing this editorial for two reasons. Firstly, it is my very first editorial that I have been writing since I have become the new editor-in-chief at Splijtstof. Secondly, this edition includes a few articles that I hold very dear to my heart – social…