
How do we think? Can machines think? What is consciousness? And many more questions on artificial intelligence and the philosophy of mind.
July 1st, 2014 | by Maarten | published in English texts, FOCUS, wetenschap | Comments Off on Philosophy of mind
June 4th, 2014 | by Janantoon | published in English texts, mensenrechten, politiek | Comments Off on A pilgrimage to La Paz
“We look like a bunch of pilgrims gathering to start a pilgrimage to Canterbury.” “You may be right about being pilgrims, but you can’t compare this sweltering place to a fourteenth century English tavern.” We all laughed. In a way the young man was right: four unconnected people had flocked together. First we were sitting […]
May 29th, 2014 | by Janantoon | published in English texts, FOCUS, KUNST | 1 Comment »
When I first saw one of Ola-Dele Kuku’s furniture pieces, I was immediately captured. This piece was exhibited in the Design Museum Ghent. Actually, ‘furniture’ is a misleading label. The objects he creates certainly present themselves as furniture, but they do not limit themselves to mere functionality. All his creations boast an unusual playfulness, as […]
May 3rd, 2014 | by Maarten | published in English texts, FOCUS, over boeken | Comments Off on Culture meets money: the publishing industry
April 27th, 2014 | by Maarten | published in boeken van belang, Engelse literatuur, English texts, FOCUS | Comments Off on Why I want you to read John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
April 11th, 2014 | by Janantoon | published in Engelse literatuur, English texts, FOCUS | Comments Off on John Carey — the pleasure of reading
April 10th, 2014 | by Maarten | published in Engelse literatuur, English texts, FOCUS | Comments Off on Our Kind of Traitor
March 14th, 2014 | by Maarten | published in English texts, FOCUS, Russische literatuur | Comments Off on Why I want you to read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
You’ll get up with Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, early in the morning, and follow him throughout the day, from sleeping hut to sickbay to mess hut, through the labour camp and back. You’ll get to know the complex social rules that governed this environment: the hierarchical status from camp commandant over warders and foremen down to convicts like Shukhov himself, their crafty solutions for gaining some warmth or food, their unpitying harshness toward one another, the way they’d go easy on the relative newcomers. Above all, you will feel the hunger and the cold.
March 3rd, 2014 | by Maarten | published in English texts, FOCUS, wetenschap | 1 Comment »