Does love need to be liberated? If so, from what? The phrase ‘free love’ may be associated with mid to late 20th century hippies, but has its origins as a philosophy in religious movements which are thousands of years old. Since then, thinkers have come and gone asking how love can be made more free, and what we need to do to make it so.
Horrible people have made wonderful art. Or is it? Do the failings of an artist in their life, whether personal or professional, have anything to do with how we should relate to their art? If so, how should we treat art made by those who have done vile, even unspeakable things?
It’s easy to say that water is important, the earth is covered in it, we’re made of it, and so on. But how should water’s importance be managed? Their significance is not just historical and political but also conceptual and cultural.
If you’re reading this, you were born. So, now what? Are you going to keep this cycle going? Would you really do that to someone, create them? If so, why? If not, why not?
Is peace just an absence of war, or is it a way of life? How can we learn to live peacefully? Some have theorized that peacefulness is a virtue, like courage or open-mindedness. Others think peace does not have a chance in a world where war is always a viable strategy.
Do you believe in monsters? Perhaps in our disenchanted age the category seems archaic. We no longer fear vampires, ghouls, or dragons. What about serial killers, predators, war criminals, and those that we often call monstrous?
TU Delft is composed of tens of thousands of people, academic staff, administrative staff, technical, facilities, and maintenance workers, not to mention students, visiting researchers, and the birds outside Alma. But what is TU Delft?
Having fun, zoning out, seeking thrills, admiring beautiful things, learning, festivity, exercise, and Netflix are all contenders for ways to spend our free time. Sometimes we do a few at once. There’s hundreds of ways to spend our free time, but are some better than others?
Silicon Valley was not just a place, but it had its own ideologies, and they echo today in the halls of power, shaping the thoughts and decisions of policy makers. How much of our world is beholden to the views of figures like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk? How safe are democratic institutions?
Why are the world’s biggest problems so hard to solve?
The shirt you wear right now was made by a child in a faraway country that was not paid fairly for their work. The phone in your pocket cannot be recycled and is barely repairable. Our planet keeps heating up with no end in sight.
