Edition 68 – End(ing)
The End(ing) has arrived – yet Inter is here to stay.
Dive into Inter’s latest edition as we conclude yet another year of inspiring articles and begin anew with an expended editorial team! Explore different dimensions of endings, from altered realities and differentiated identities, through cracks of prolonging social structures, to how endings of chapters ignite new paths and opportunities.
After the End of Holocene: Homo Sapiens Creating Its New Path
By Weichen Zhang Illustration by Madelene Nitzsche Nighttime comes after the end of daytime, and then the sun comes up from the east. A new day, another cycle. At a larger time scale, people all over the world observe season cycles in a year, with one season swiftly following the end of the previous. The…
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Virtual Realities
By Molly O’Toole Illustration by Célia Mortureux Ten years from the moment considered to ignite an era of “post-truth” media and information, our political and cultural worlds feels all the more foggy and confusing. Incidences such as Brexit and the election of Donald Trump are considered by some cultural critics to have solidified “post-truth” as…
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The Ending of the End: Capitalist Realism in Shambles
By Erato Vaitsi Illustration by Taylor Brunnschweiler Mark Fisher was a cultural critic and theorist, who drew inspiration from Deleuze and Guattari (Seaton, 2021). The concept which he is most famous for is capitalist realism, which captures both the sense that capitalism is the only viable political and economic system, and the impossibility of imagining…
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What Happens to Our Digital Self When Our Physical Self Leaves?
By Yanely Lopez Illustration by Helena Nascimento Facebook Notification: “It’s Kristina’s birthday today! Say Happy Birthday.” Yet Kristina isn’t here anymore to see them. To see her ‘Happy 38th’ wishes. The photos, comments, or memories we share on her wall. But her digital presence remains, as a persistent echo of her life, frozen in time…
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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…
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