We’ve heard this story before. When the US military tried to reduce aircraft shot down by enemy fire during World War II, they examined the planes returning from their mission. After inspecting the bullet holes on the aircraft armors, their recommendation was to reinforce the damaged areas. But statistician Abraham…

There’s this one scene I love above any other in the brilliant Coen Brothers film, Burn After Reading. The final scene shows us CIA officer Palmer reporting back to his superior about the series of unpredictable, unfortunate events that have unfolded. If you don’t remember it, here it is: …

Power and communication are tightly intertwined. It’s impossible to hold power without communicating it somehow. Yet in our hyperconnected world, the intentional sabotage of communication has become a normalised tactic from the elites to divert responsibility over the speech act in the exercise of power and control. We often forget…

“Every word is a prejudice.” Nietzsche “(…) contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.” Derrida Language divides, separates, and isolates. It causes a chasm, a difference, and a distance. It first sets a limit and a boundary between us and…

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh After a few minutes browsing souvenirs in the gift shop, I find myself standing square in front of a picture window. Amazed, I stare at the view: the upper half of the window is a clear bright blue sky, the bottom half a…

“To define is to limit”, Oscar Wilde The Doctor is an almost thousand-year-old alien with a policebox-shaped time-space ship and a Deus-ex-machina device in the form of a sonic screwdriver. He* travels through time and space solving conflicts, fixing problems and saving people. Most of the times. He’s also got…