what is changing,
and what to make of it.
a creative led magazine following insights on culture, technology, politics, sport and beauty.the world does not divide itself into single subjects.
we explore how culture, technology, politics, sport and beauty offer different ways of understanding the world, bridging the divide between these subjects.
romance didn't survive being made efficient.
dating apps promised to remove uncertainty from meeting someone and designed the dating process as a sequence of decisions. however, the relationship is really built in the interval where another person cannot yet be ranked or understood. the swipe turns encounter into selection and possibility into inventory.
romance is messy and chaotic. it needs enough time for a stranger to stop resembling a choice.
about
the name is a greek word for training.
askesis was the practice undertaken for deliberate self-discipline. askesium borrows the word for thought: thinking is trained by returning to the world from more than one direction. we follow the connection between culture, technology, politics, sport and beauty to think and discuss what we find interesting.