Life
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Finished PhD – up to new adventures
I’ve finally managed to print my dissertation in a final format filled with mistakes, but done. I will defend it in August this year, and be a Dr. of Philosophy, inshallah.
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On ‘The Imitation Game’
Some things leave you speechless. With a single tear coming down my cheek I left the cinema tonight. This doesn’t happen very often. But then again, the lives of awkward extraordinary people don’t get made into a movie very often.
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Sometimes…
Only sometimes you realise everything is linked, comes together. It’s such a powerful feeling, to see how a poem you learned by heart when you were a mere thirteen years old, the epigraph of a master thesis, a quoted sentence on the first page of my final work in high school – all relates, comes…
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Atheïsme, rituelen en de goede mens
Op de website van Zinweb, een platform voor zingeving, schreef ik een kort artikel als reactie op een mooi essay van professor Ger Groot dat afgelopen weekend in Trouw verscheen. Over de rol van rituelen, het moderne leven en de ultieme vraag – is de mens goed?
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Cursus Filosofie en/van de kunstenaar
CURSUS: FILOSOFIE EN/VAN DE KUNSTENAAR (3 dagen) Kijken. Scheppen. Zijn. De rol van de kunstenaar in de maatschappij. Kunstenaar ben je niet in je eentje. Zelfs als je kunst maakt in de eenzaamheid van je eigen kamer, ben je verbonden met de wereld door te putten uit symboliek, taal en het gebruik van (natuurlijke) materialen. Een kunstwerk…
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Meeting the Other – Question of one who is Home-less
Living in large metropolitan cities is not just a difference in size, compared to villages and towns that are still to be found at the countryside. There are more people. More people means more houses, more suffering, more joy, more making love, more fighting over jobs, more food, more sewers. (It also means more books,…
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Radicality of/in Writing
“Tout écrivain qui, par le fait même d’écrire, n’est pas conduit à penser: je suis la révolution, seule la liberté me fait écrire, en réalité n’écrit pas.” ~ Maurice Blanchot, La Part du Feu, Gallimard 1949, p.311.
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The Soundtrack of Writing
It’s dangerous to reflect once it’s finally going the way you hope. Writing seems like a delicate balance of happiness, frustration and a sense of urgency. Is it me, did something change, or I am I just (finally!) ready to write my PhD, after two-and-a-half years of reading and preparing? Building momentum, struggling through meters…
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Order & Keys
Moving, leaving, packing, saying goodbye. Saying hello to the unknown, deciding to face it. Making lists, selecting, reorganising my life. Cleaning, removing, selecting. Today I’m leaving for Berlin. Perhaps my chain of keys is most symbolic for it all. I had a lot of keys, but one by one I returned them. To people who…
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