Lucia Deon, Author at Inter

Endings in Entertainment and Why They Don’t Happen

By Lucia Deon Illustration by Merel Hamminga In modern storytelling, we are faced with a constant paradox: the fixed psychological need for endings and the increasing absence of mediums that are capable of giving them to us, much less satisfactory ones. This tension raises the question of why we need endings in storytelling and what…

Spread: Power Dynamics across Digital Technology

By Lucia Deon Illustration by Madelene Nitzsche Classical economists might suggest that the market is a place where a wide variety of actors come together on a balanced playing field. Conversely, the modern digital economy presents an economic reality that is anything but even; extremely important algorithmic systems and databases are controlled by a singular…

Why Are Young People Delaying Their Launch Anto Adulthood?

By Lucia Deon Illustration by Juul Setting sail into adulthood is as tricky as it is special, with the traditional markers of growth often indicating a departure from the comfort and safety of the shore. Does Generation Z present a unique resistance to this change or have the tides become simply more difficult to navigate?…

The Student Squeeze

By Lucia Deon Illustration by Célia Mortureux The so called „student budget“ is one of the most infamous and important organizing aspects of one´s university experience. Learning how to balance your basic necessities, your social life and whatever addictions that might need funding is an important steppingstone into adulthood. But how exactly do students divide…