Essays Against the Void
Thursday evening, Tulastraat: a fifteen-year-old bleeds into playground mulch designed to cushion falls, not gunshots. The second child shot where children should play this month. Four lives reveal how Dutch civilization manages its contradictions through chemistry and violence, each transaction …
Continue reading →Portrait of a Dutch man from 25 to 75: fifty years of motion without movement. From postponing family with Marloes to running nowhere on treadmills, from optimizing everything except living to walking circles in a care home garden with a euthanasia letter in his pocket. The autobiography of every …
Continue reading →An examination of Dutch festival culture as modern liturgy—eight thousand bodies seeking synthetic transcendence through precise chemical schedules and 130 BPM. From the queue to the comedown, a portrait of how we’ve normalized oblivion, turning spiritual hunger into a weekend commodity traded …
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