Notebook
A slow feed of short essays and reflections, grouped by theme. Written first to think, and only then to share.
§ 01
On how digital infrastructures shape what we take to be ourselves.
Drawing on Goffman and Social Identity Theory, this essay asks what happens when algorithmically curated 'cores' on TikTok and Instagram begin to define the parameters of identity itself, and what authenticity can mean inside an always on frontstage.
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Reading current debates around academic freedom, gender and the radical right.
A critical reading of three arguments by the conservative student party VSP at VU Amsterdam, untangling the difference between free speech, institutional neutrality, and academic freedom.
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Objects, images and stories that carry more than they show.
Using Donna Haraway's concept of the gaze, this essay reads the Wereldmuseum's framing of Indonesian objects and Moluccan migration alongside a personal family story, three krises brought back from Java in 1946, to ask what museums still refuse to say.
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