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Should we care for humans more than animals?
You all must’ve heard about Shameless, the over-the-top drama-slash-comedy show that Americans adapted from the British. It follows the misdemeanors of drunkard Frank Gallagher and his six kids as they fight to survive the crude reality of Southside Chicago. Yet, they keep making everyone laugh along the way…
Undoing Citation: Reflections on institutional bias towards West-produced knowledge
Our journey in ‘western’ academic institutions, so far, has been long, arduous, and tiring. We have increasingly come to realise that the validation of our academic work has to be sought from the dominant literature produced in the ‘West’ known as the ‘canon’. We do not intend to discredit the richness of this literature; rather, we believe the hegemony and validity of this canon are rarely questioned—particularly when scholars from the Global South are expected to refer to them in contexts where the canon bears little relevance…
Bring Your Best Self to Work Self-care under late capitalism
During this recent holiday season, some online thinkpieces in the Western world focused on the new proliferation of self-care products among popular gift options– health foods, cosmetics, self-help books, essential oil diffusers– and the overwhelming co-option of this market by white middle-class women. The aim? To remind shoppers of the origins of self-care, and to encourage a more critical approach towards the consumption of commercialised self-care…
Op-Ed: Cornstein Talk
The way CEU conceptualizes academic freedom in the Open Society is bitterly ironic.
Are We Living In a Simulation?
I first saw the movie Matrix when I was thirteen. Sitting on a couch with my siblings, I was frightened, questioning my very existence. Since then, The Matrix was one of my favourite movies. Many of you have probably seen this late 90s classic already, but for those who haven’t, here is a quick introduction.
10 Days That Changed My World
When the decision to move was announced on October 25th, I had mixed feelings. On the one hand, I appreciated CEU’s move to put pressure on the Hungarian government by giving it a December 1st ultimatum instead of waiting like sitting ducks. On the other hand, I knew that this strategy also enabled the government to pretend that CEU was not actually kicked out of the country, but rather left of its own accord. Ultimately, I was disappointed that CEU would not use its resources and name to stay and fight until the very end, but I thought that it was nevertheless better to go along with the strategy and put pressure on Orbán until December 1st.