The year 2021 began full of hope and expectation, if only because a new year meant we could leave behind one of the most complex years in the history of mankind and finally turn the proverbial page. However, after almost three months, we’ve seen that to truly live up to this widespread desire for improvement, […]
Apples and Oranges – The Need for a New EU Food Policy Read More »
The motto of the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago triumphantly reads, “Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms.” Such a motto paints a deterministic picture of science as unreflectively accumulating bits of knowledge, independent of final ends and applications. Science is depicted as an autonomous, mechanistic process rather than a conscious, human activity. But if science
Saving Our Digital Selves: Personalisation, Habermas & the GDPR Read More »
“I remember that I’m invisible and walk so softly so as not to awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.” – Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man – It is not what we see that really matters; it is what we
The Invisible Plantation Read More »
Digital diagnosis: depressing? The European Union knows there is a problem in the digital realm. European member states were the first to set up comprehensive rules about digital privacy in an attempt to prevent widespread online chaos and increased misuse of personal data. Does the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data scandal ring a bell? You might not
Sword, Shield and Social Media: Europe’s Digital Dilemma Read More »
“‘I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. ‘I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?’” In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited
The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Future? Mass Anxiety & Democracy Read More »
My name is Stéphanie Mareva Failloux. I am from Tahiti and have lived in Paris for twenty-five years. After graduating in 1997, I started my career in finance, first at Banque Paribas and then at Lehman Brothers in London and Paris. In 2006, I set up a financial advising company, OraNui Finance, based in Paris
Why Rewiring Our Financial System Should Concern Us All? Read More »
What a year 2020 is turning out to be. Even if there had been no Covid-19, climate-related disasters such as the wildfires in the US and Australia, the melting ice caps and the destruction of the rain forests in Brazil and South East Asia (and as I write, the hurricane season is only just getting
Can Europe Help Redesign Democracy in a Post-COVID-19 World? Read More »
Germany may have bagged itself a universal basic income (UBI) through a legal back door. We’ll never know if the judges at the German Supreme Court in Karlsruhe were fully aware of the enormous consequences of their verdict last year. Probably not, because what they ruled on, at least officially, was not “Should there be a
Germany Adopted a Universal Basic Income, and Nobody Noticed Read More »
Europe’s prospects could not be better, but its challenges have rarely been greater. First, COVID-19 has only accelerated problems that were already present: economic and social stress, unemployment, general sentiments towards lack of progress, and identity conflicts. This is giving rise to populist and conspiratory forces. Second, there is the seemingly binary choice between aligning
Eureka! Europe’s Green Dream Read More »
“That was mine. And I miss it.” Do you think the fields miss you? “Oh, I know they miss me because I used to talk to them all the time… It sounds silly to another person; like, why are you talking to a piece of dirt? But it’s just, like, the love you have for
A Letter to a Friend. Should I Give Up My Seat? Read More »
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