Italians Mad at Food

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by Lapo Lappin Recently I was sucked into a WhatsApp group chat called ”The Italians” – a safe haven for Erasmus students far from the peninsula. The thumbnail for this group was a ”Hawaii pizza”, the chunks of pineapple clearly visible in the foreground. As soon as the group was…

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The Allure of Ideas

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By Egil Sturk In his short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940) Jorge Luis Borges imagines a secret 17th-century society of scholars called Orbis Tertius, akin to the Rosicrucians  and Freemasons,  dedicated to the creation of a new country: Uqbar. This secret society consists of idealist rationalists like George Berkeley,…

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Pleasure, Pain & Utopia?

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Av Linus Wahlberg & Simon Norin Finns det rätt och fel? Finns det bra och dåliga beslut? Är vissa samhällen bättre än andra? För att påstå att det kan finnas ett sant idealsamhälle, en utopi som alla delar, verkar det som att dessa frågor måste besvaras, för vilket man måste…

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Nowhere Island, Canada

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By Per Risberg The word “utopia” is made out of two greek words: ού, meaning nothing, and τόπος, meaning place. So basically a utopia is a nothing place, or nowhere place. The creator of the word is Sir Thomas More, who invented it for his novel conveniently named Utopia. In…

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Cities of Words

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By Lapo Lappin It is a common cliché, first quipped by Alfred North Whitehead, that Western philosophy is a series of ”footnotes to Plato”. This is, of course, entirely true. But it is perhaps not as precise as could be desired. Not only is Western philosophy footnotes to Plato –…

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