Ben Shai van der Wal
Ben Shai van der Wal is a writer, cultural critic, and philosopher. After his studies in philosophy and literary science (cum laude), he has been researching, teaching, and tutoring in a variety of institutions (Design Academy Eindhoven, Vrije Universiteit, Sandberg Institute, Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg, Bezalel Academy of Arts). His ongoing research – The (T)error of Existence - delves into the entanglements between existentialism, psychoanalysis, and the politics of language.
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You Wanna Know How We Got These Scars?
Writer, cultural critic, and philosopher Ben Shai van der Wal calls upon us to embrace our trickster-friend. A short essay about how society’s need for healing and fixing stands in the way of it.
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You Gotta Serve Somebody
“Hello” I typed, and it felt like flinging sound into a cave, testing to see if someone was there in the dark, some being of an undetermined image.