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You Are a Planet Swarming with Life

Future Based2022-11-28T16:17:37+01:00

You think about yourself as a unique individual, you experience yourself and your body as a whole. You have one name, but you should actually have many names. You are not one, you are an exuberant ever-changing crowd, a planet swarming with life, a symbiotic microbiome full of millions of micro-organisms that perform various, indispensable functions in your body. In fact, you are innumerable, always a 'we' and never merely an 'I'.

You Are a Planet Swarming with LifeFuture Based2022-11-28T16:17:37+01:00

Saving as Many Human Lives as Possible?

Future Based2020-06-19T07:32:16+02:00

As a philosopher, Pieter Booij specializes in logic and the foundations of mathematics. In the next four short essays Pieter will interpret a selection of Wittgensteins aphorisms in the context of the Corona pandemic. Wittgensteins second masterpiece is the Philosophical Investigations, which consists of a collection of aphorisms. These aphorisms read like poetry to Pieter, and like poetry, they are not only open to interpretation, but it are intentionally meant to be interpreted.

Saving as Many Human Lives as Possible?Future Based2020-06-19T07:32:16+02:00

A Microscopic Zoom-in on the Universe

Sabine Winters2020-10-31T11:30:49+01:00

On the works of Simone Albers - by Sabine Winters The natural sciences open up new spaces of possibility and expose nature’s well-hidden intricacies that would still be a mystery were it not for our ingenious technologies. Scientific instruments provide us with the perspicacity necessary to observe structures that otherwise remain opaque and impenetrable [...]

A Microscopic Zoom-in on the UniverseSabine Winters2020-10-31T11:30:49+01:00

Haunting the Designer: Ghosts in the Machine

Future Based2022-12-01T12:45:03+01:00

This work was submitted by Michelle Vossen. The opinions and conclusions expressed in it do not necessarily constitute those of the Future Based platform. All rights reserved to the author. Do you have a thesis, a dissertation, or any other kind of research that is gathering dust on a shelf? Would you [...]

Haunting the Designer: Ghosts in the MachineFuture Based2022-12-01T12:45:03+01:00

Becoming a Bat. Embodying COVID-19: SF Ways of Fighting Helplessness Confronting the Pandemic.

Future Based2022-12-01T12:45:15+01:00

This work was submitted by Noam Youngrak Son. The opinions and conclusions expressed in it do not necessarily constitute those of the Future Based platform. All rights reserved to the author. Do you have a thesis, a dissertation, or any other kind of research that is gathering dust on a shelf? Would you like [...]

Becoming a Bat. Embodying COVID-19: SF Ways of Fighting Helplessness Confronting the Pandemic.Future Based2022-12-01T12:45:15+01:00

Approaching the Visual Heritage of the Soviet Union.

Future Based2020-06-19T07:33:41+02:00

My fascination for the subject began six years ago when I found a book about Moscow, published in the 60s, in a thrift-shop. It presented an entirely alien reality and thus sparked my curiosity. I wanted to understand the atmosphere of the photographs, learn more about daily life in the USSR and observe to what degree the book was a genuine reflection of reality.

Approaching the Visual Heritage of the Soviet Union.Future Based2020-06-19T07:33:41+02:00

The future pedestrian among self-driving cars

Future Based2022-12-01T12:45:29+01:00

The future pedestrian among self-driving cars. How many times have you crossed the street today?Did you look at your phone while crossing?Did you make eye contact with the drivers to ensure that they see you? Street-crossing has become a typical point of the day which no one really pays attention to. It is a [...]

The future pedestrian among self-driving carsFuture Based2022-12-01T12:45:29+01:00

Reflection on the philosophical understanding of colour.

Sabine Winters2022-07-07T12:46:15+02:00

According to our everyday experience, the objects that surround us are coloured. Lemons are yellow, cucumbers are green, and our car is black. But according to physical science, lemons, cucumbers, and our car are composed of particles that are not attributed with colour whatsoever. These two pictures of the world seem not entirely compatible, but how come? Is philosophy able to provide us with an answer to this question?

Reflection on the philosophical understanding of colour.Sabine Winters2022-07-07T12:46:15+02:00