My friends whom I was trying to organize from Facebook were planning to be in Kızılay around 16.00 pm, synchronized with the larger group attending the Facebook event so that we don’t get gassed individually but as a group. The… Continue reading
Tomorrow the ‘final debate’ will take place between Obama and Romney. I attest no value to the debate as such, as I tend to agree with Baudrillard about this phenomenon: we are not watching ‘a debate’ here, we are watching… Continue reading
Frankly, let’s just coin the correct phrase: the Nobelprizes have increasingly become nothing than something intellectually embarrassing. Last year a president two weeks in office got the Nobel Peace Prize, this year the entire European Union gets one. The idea… Continue reading
Talking of c-type managers: today there was a news item that signifies pretty well what’s wrong in the Dutch echelons. A few months ago people in the main building of Rijkswaterstaat ‘felt the building shake sometimes’ as in ‘the felt… Continue reading
An argument in defense of real books
A while ago I stumbled upon the work of Johan Sanctorum, a Flemish philosopher that has always consistently refused to publish books. The crux of his argument is rather simple: he sees ‘the… Continue reading