Essays

Armenia’s Revolution, Europe’s Silence

“Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women—insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life.” A sentence, first written over a hundred years ago in James Joyce’s epic Ulysses, still holds personal relevance in 2023 [...]

A few weeks ago, I was reminded of a quote that touched me significantly: ‘He may seek notoriety, but we will give him nothing, not even his name.’ These words were spoken by the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2019 after a far-right terrorist murdered over fifty people at two mosques in Christchurch. At the time [...]

The Power of Words, the Failure of Structures

Last Generation: The fabrication of extremism

The background to explain my reasoning of writing this more direct political piece can be summarised through the last weeks and months of the German political discourse. The small village known as Luetzerath will be laid waste by an energy company for the extraction of coal. A deal which was [...]