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The widespread resistance to the Russian invasion in 2022 seems to support the idea that the Ukrainian nationalist project became convincing to former ‘pro-Russian’ voters. This essay takes an ethnographically informed look at the way the identitarian cleavage works in an industrial city in eastern Ukraine. I argue that, prior to the invasion, it helped consolidate the power of the local elite but

Pessimism is often closely tied to antinatalism. In fact, many of the most influential arguments against procreative freedom have pessimism as their starting point: if life is void of meaning and contains more suffering than pleasure, we ought not to procreate. In this paper, I aim to question this assumed connection. By examining the views of Peter Wessel Zapffe, I argue that pessimism need not e

This article analyses the genealogical process that turned Charles V’s second-born son Fernando (1529–30), who died in infancy, into the bearer of hopes for an independent Habsburg principality in the Low Countries. Between 1535 and 1616, Fernando was frequently mentioned in genealogies, in stark contrast to his brother Juan (1537–38), who was normally forgotten. Furthermore, Fernando was cast in

Eye-tracking is increasingly prevalent across various aspects of our lives. It is currently used for research, education, diagnostics, and entertainment, for example, in virtual reality goggles. However, widely used video-based eye-trackers require subject-dependent calibration, which makes them unsuitable for examining individuals with unstable fixation, such as patients with neurodegenerative di

När Pavel Fischl deporteras till Theresienstadts getto 1941 är han 19 år gammal. Hans syskon har lyckats fly det ockuperade Prag, föräldrarna är döda sedan några år tillbaka. Fischl blir satt i tvångsarbete, men kan också spela teater och skriva. Dagböckerna från Theresienstadt ger en unik inblick i en ung mans vardag på den värsta tänkbara av platser. Vardagen under det pågående nazistiska folkmo

While early Christians shared the idea that human beings were, in one way or another, akin to God, they understood this relationship in very different ways. Those Christians who accepted the creation narratives found in the Hebrew Bible claimed that human beings were created in the image of God, but the question of what that image is, whether it remains in human beings or has been lost, and how, i

The present study aims at contributing to our understanding of the eschatological developments that took place from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages, with a focus on Jerome of Stridon. The article contextualizes Jerome’s thought by discussing the development of ancient Christian eschatology, from traditional apocalypticism to the eschatological questions which came to the surface in the Jov