Culture

Sometimes it is almost impossible to escape a feeling of wonder for the abundance of life in our world. Especially...

Languages’ similarities are not rooted in a special genetics for language. They follow from culture and common information-processing solutions and...

Historians are generally wary of commemorations – fireworks that dazzle the eye only to fade in the same instant. But...

Ever since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s US presidential election, there has been frantic speculation about what it is...

The Syrian writer, journalist and dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh is one of the most prominent voices of the Syrian Revolution....

The following text is a chapter from Decolonising Art: Beyond the Obvious (2025), a publication that summarizes and documents a...

The student protests in Serbia have persisted for seven months, yielding widespread and diverse effects. All state universities are still...

We live in the era of polycrisis, where ‘the horsemen of the apocalypse have to be dealt with together’. The...

In Wespennest, complexity scientist Stefan Thurner speaks to editor Andrea Zederbauer and literary scholar Thomas Eder about our evolving understanding...

Bundesheer poster, Vienna, 30 November 2024. Image by Sarah Waring The poster needed a double take: three action-ready figures dressed...