The Little Prince and Et Heanige PreenskeCabaret artists Herman Finkers and Erik van Muiswinkel both translated the famous book Le Petit Prince from French. Van Muiswinkel made a modern Dutch translation of it; Finkers a Twente one. They talk to each other about tricky issues. How do you translate a masterpiece? What freedoms and limitations do you have as a translator? Can you also improve on the original? What is this modern fairy tale about? And who was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of this story from 1943 that has appeared in more than 500 languages? Discussion leader: Hiska Bakker MA (SG). In cooperation with the Alliance Française Twente and Student Union.Read more
Digital detox - a philosophy of digital abstinenceAre we all turning into smartphone zombies? This pressing question is posed by philosopher Hans Schnitzler in his book Digital detox (2023). As an experiment, he had students undergo a week-long digital detox. Their testimonies raise uncomfortable and fundamental questions about our relationship to the screen world. 'I only now realise how numb I am all the time,' one of his students declared. Is the smartphone actually still at the service of us, or are we at the service of the smartphone?Read more
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