Month: May 2025

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martinus Benders I was more or less forced to become a designer in life—you have to do something to make money. I managed to get by for about ten years doing that. I’ll never be a grand designer, but I’m functionally competent. Of course, this cover…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martinus Benders Not spam. Callahan. The title يا كُلِّي كَلوكَعنكَبْ is playful, layered, and full of sound magic. Let’s take it apart piece by piece: يا كُلِّي literally means “O my everything” or “O whole of me.” This immediately invokes a sense of direct and intimate…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martinus Benders Molesting the Father’s desk — the most archetypal thing that can happen to a son in psychoanalytic terms. The desk, in a certain sense, stands for the father himself. It’s the intimate violence of the act that makes it so archetypal: a forced entry…