In the field of climate change adaptation, the future matters. River futures influence the way adaptation projects are implemented in rivers. In this paper, we challenge the ways in which dominant paradigms and expert claims monopolise the truth concerning policies and designs of river futures, thereby …

In 1984, Newspeak aims to replace ordinary language by 2050, with the aim of discouraging language as a vehicle for thinking and making it easier for people to function as slaves to the system. After all, thinking that deviates from what fact-checkers have determined to be correct, is regarded as conspiracy, …

Super Bowl commercials teach us how to conceive of surveillance. While Apple promises to fight Big Brother with a personal computer, Coca-Cola invites us to think different, i.e. positively about security cameras. The whitewashing of surveillance accompanies the ‘big brotherization’ of Apple. However, …

In 1949 publiceerde George Orwell zijn boek ‘1984’, waarin hij een beklemmende samenleving beschrijft: een wereld die totaal gecontroleerd wordt door de overheid, waarbij élke stap die je doet wordt geregistreerd en zelfs het denken aan banden is gelegd. Nu, 65 jaar later, lijkt het niet Big Brother, …