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Closed captions suck. Here’s one artist’s inventive project to make them better

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By Paul Van Pelt, Dean Rieck, Fred Sigman
| Aeon Verified
Amid the rise of at-home and handheld-device streaming, closed captions are having a moment. But, as the US-born, Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim explores in the short film [Closer Captions], the descriptions they offer are rarely up to snuff, especially for Deaf people like her who rely on them.
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For Iris Murdoch, selfishness is a fault that can be solved by reframing the world

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By Linda Misetich Dann, Paul Van Pelt
| Aeon Verified
The very fact that, for millennia, philosophers have given deep thought to the problem of selfishness is good evidence that it’s an enduring part of the human condition. But how can we recognise when it’s truly a problem within ourselves? And how might we endeavour to overcome it? This cleverly animated short from TED-Ed surveys how a wide range of famed thinkers viewed selfishness across the ages.
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Solidariteit met de Iraanse revolutie

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By Paul Van Pelt
| sap-rood.org
Op 12 mei 2023 organiseerde de Antwerpse afdeling van SAP – Antikapitalisten (in samenwerking met het Ernest Mandelfonds) een solidariteitsavond met de Iraanse revolutie. Voorafgaand aan een vertoning van de film Divorce Iranian Style (film van Kim Longinotto en Ziba Mir-Hosseini) legde Mahdieh Fahimi (activiste bij Woman*LifeFreedom Gent) uit hoe de zaken er voorstaan in het woelige Iran van vandaag.
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