Category: Culture

on 11 May 202511 May 2025Culture Opinion

Why We Need to Imagine Again: Kohei Saito and the Chaos We’re Living Through

It is interesting that we have built a system where your retirement fund, your savings, your rent, are all basically chips on a casino table. And somehow, we have convinced ourselves that is okay. That it is okay for someone like Trump to have this much power over everyone’s future. This made me think of a book that I read last year by the Japanese Philosopher Kohei Saito, by the name Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, and Marx in the Anthropocene.

on 26 Mar 202526 Mar 2025Culture Portrait

Journalism Is The First Draft Of History

March 2024. Award Winning investigative journalist Walid Batrawi (1969, Jerusalem) left his home in Ramallah after working for almost 30 years as a journalist and witness of modern day Palestine. As one of the few Palestinian voices left he continues his work from his new home in Toronto. His most recent project being the crossborder collaborative Gaza Project with Forbidden Stories.

on 22 Dec 202420 Dec 2024Culture Politics

Why Gen Z Is Not Going to Save the World

Is Gen Z actually as environmentally conscious, woke, and progressive as thought to be? Or have they turned their backs on everyone’s hopes and dreams? And why is everyone but Gen Z seemingly able to rid themselves of all responsibility without consequence?

on 20 Oct 202420 Oct 2024Culture Politics

Race to the White House: Celebrity influence in the 2024 US election

Celebrities have recently been weighing in on the 2024 presidential race in various ways, with both political figures and Hollywood stars endorsing and getting behind candidates in hopes of influencing the outcome in November.

on 29 Sep 202429 Sep 2024Culture

‘Watching the Universe Unfold Together’. An interview with John Conway, the Director of the Onsala Space Observatory.

Utblick magazine interviewed Professor John Conway and discussed about astronomy’s advantage in explaining complex scientific ideas through images and the importance of international collaboration for scientific discoveries and progress.

on 06 Jan 202406 Jan 2024Culture

Threads of Sumud: The Tapestry of Palestinian Culture and Resilience

Literally translated as ‘steadfastness’ from Palestinian Arabic, the term sumud …

on 26 Jun 202326 Jun 2023Culture Politics

One year since the terror at Oslo Pride – now what?

One year after the terror at Oslo Pride, the wounds still linger. The queer community, scarred by the tragic event, prepares for this year’s celebration with nervousness and anxiety. Threats of violence, increasing hate speech, and a lack of government support cast a shadow over the upcoming Pride, writes Staff Writer Anita Kaksrud.

on 26 Mar 202326 Mar 2023Culture Environment

Another consequence of global warming: decreasing linguistic diversity

Did you know that a language dies every 40 days? Utblick’s staff writer Dominique Keizer delves into this issue and explains how the world loses linguistic diversity due to global warming.

on 29 May 202228 May 2022Culture Economy Health

One size does not fit all: the wellness industry and its commodification of health

For our last online article before the summer, staff writer Kathina Mehring dissects how the wellness industry puts a price on health and intrinsically links it to consumerism and capitalism.