Miriam Rasch
Miriam Rasch (b. 1978) is a philosopher and essayist. She studied literary theory and philosophy and is attached to the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. She writes on ethics, technology and literature for NRC and De Nederlandse Boekengids and has a regular column in Filosofie Magazine. In 2015, she won the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize. Her collection of essays 'Swimming in the Ocean: Messages from a Post-digital World' (2017) and her pamphlet 'Autonomy: A Self-help Guide' (2022) were nominated for the Socrates Cup.
Her book Swimming in the Ocean: Dispatches from a Post-Digital World (2017) was shortlisted for the 2018 Socrates Cup philosophy prize and in 2015 she won the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize.
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Friction
Today’s world is dominated by information gathering, and because everything is understood and described in terms of data, it has come to rule our lives. But how can we live freely in this world of comprehensive digitization that predicts our every move? Rasch searches for alternative ways of thinking about ourselves and our environment that will free us from the binary restrictions of 0s and 1s.
Listening Practice
Initially, the emancipating power of internet technology was warmly embraced: the marginalised could finally influence political debate, new voices could shake up the dominant world order. But constant scrolling has led to a ‘dizzying swirl of current events’, overstimulation leads to mental shut down. Can we learn to listen again?