This book provides a thorough revision of the image of the public church under the Dutch Republic after the Peace of Westphalia and before the onset of the ‘high Enlightenment’. Traditional church history considers the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a period of decline. Yet this was the high tide of Dutch expansion when Dutch society was extremely rich. In its five universities and its highly literate population internationally acknowledged scholarship, arts and sciences flowered. D...

After Nuremberg, there is probably no other place where the future of Europe has been so definitively tested and secured as in The Hague. The iconic building of the former International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has become a global icon of international law and transitional justice since its establishment in 1993. As the direct successor of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg in 1945-1946, this UN tribunal was after 25 years of unprecedented success in in...

Welcome to a world where everything seems “wrong”: eating meat, smoking, sitting, flying, data, campfires, flowers on the table—even your houseplant might be a climate offender.

We’re flooded with dos and don’ts, as if daily life must constantly be corrected by a moral authority. But what if we didn’t shrink back in shame? What if we moved forward—with imagination?

The NO DESIGN MANIFESTO is a call for creative freedom.

At Next Nature, we don’t believe in going back to natur...

Adaptability, or AQ, is increasingly recognized as an essential factor for a happy life; it may even be more important than IQ and EQ. Adaptability can help you stay happy, even when facing challenges. Learning to manage your emotions and maintaining a positive mindset contibute to your adaptability. It also involves being flexible in dealing with change and effectively managing stress that may arise.

Building on Holding Space and drawing on her rich Surinamese cultural tradition, academia and indigenous knowledge, Aminata Cairo presents the reader with her most personal book yet. In more than thirty, compact chapters, she opens up about intimate life experiences and shows us just how empowering stories are. No, not the kind of stories that are used for light entertainment – but the raw, honest, spiritual and joyous ones. Her stories are confronting, too, as they navigate the complexitie...

V2_ presented Jason W. Moore, David Whyte, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson with the question ‘How could a system emerge that ends capitalism? If that is at all possible, what would it take, and what might that system look like?’ The three essays that they wrote in reaction offer a relentless and detailed analysis of capitalism that clears the path towards imagining another society. With an introduction by Sjoerd van Tuinen and Ryan Kopaitich.

From a local tradition coming out of a small historical world, to a tradition involved in a vast queer-worling of making, 'The Last Basket Makers from Risa' refers to a lineage of artisans producing the enigmatic Hedared basket – from Lennart, the basket's first "last maker" – to Lennart's great-grandson, Fahdel Mourali. This is his report on an open-ended process of indentifying and crafting the material of kinship.

Becoming the Product: The Critical Internet Researcher as a Virtual Intellectual traces the evolution of critical internet research. Examining the pioneering work of early net critic Geert Lovink, the influencer-style approach of Joshua Citarella, and the practices of Alex Quicho and Sophie Public, the essay explores how researchers share their work and sustain their careers in today’s attention economy. Charting the rise of subscription platforms and engagement-driven metrics, Becoming the...