(Un)recipe for decision-making
When it comes to decision-making, our choices aren’t always rational. But is there a good recipe to make better decisions?
Become what you are
Shaking off centuries worth of rotten bias is a long and difficult process. Acknowledging the problem is the first crucial step.
Against identity
Sometimes identity is “negative,” in that it is defined by what someone (or something) is not. And that can be a powerful catalyst for the op...
Getting a word in — The theatre of voice
We become what we are through voice—our own, but also that of others. And silence sets the stage where the theatrical, vocal performance of life comes to light.
Free to migrate
Migration has had and still has a great impact on human history: it shapes countries, economies, cultures and – now more than ever – the climate.
a conversation with Telmo Pievani
No right to be forgotten
The internet has unlocked a world full of potential, but it makes things hard to disappear. And that influences us.
SUMMER 2022
Look at me now.
In search of a new identity
How many ways are there to be human? The thirteenth issue of maize delves into the topic of identity, and the countless facets that make us who we are. History and philosophy, music and technology, anthropology and modernity: this edition covers it all.
Subjectivity beyond the threshold
We find ourselves in others. That seems to have been a lesson so deeply ingrained in our philosophical view of the self that we have all but abandoned alternative views. But what d...
Writing our future freedom ourselves
Society was so worried about potential government interventions into the digital sphere, that powerful Silicon Valley companies swept in and largely took over instead. Our digit...
by Jillian York
Selfie culture
Selfies don’t come out of nowhere: for centuries self-representation mirrored and shaped societies and identities through different devices...
Authentic leadership is change you can cultivate
Leaders should lead, not issue orders; they are a lighthouse to the other colleagues’ boats, not shadowy figures sitting atop an organizational chart
The view through sound
Music has been everywhere since the dawn of time, but not everyone listens to it. Yet, it has shaped us for the longest time in many ways.
a conversation with Blixa Bargeld and Teho Teardo
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