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Processing evil
The Nuremberg trials saw the birth of simultaneous interpretation. Hermann Göring especially manipulated this new system of translation for his own purposes. « Where Eichmann embodied the banality of evil, Göring stood for something like its virtuosity. »
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Saving the angel
« This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps…
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On being plagiarized
« To write a biography about a writer like Kiš is a violation of the poetics of the very author it claims to revere. »
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Open the drawer
Visiting his hometown, Tartus, he opened a drawer of old family photographs.
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What Sweden is, not
« Once the most social democratic country in Europe, and then, in the 1990s, the most neoliberal one, Sweden now aims to become the most nationalist one. »
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The Passion of strangers: a philosophy of friendship
Friendship is the only stable social relationship for which « paperwork » has not been invented.
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Looted libraries
« In both countries, it has left the government officials grappling with an extremely delicate and complex issue. Why is it so difficult to move forward? »
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A woman in Tangiers: against erasure
« I detect the head of a mannequin. Then the grains get too coarse. »
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The political life of dreams
« Dreams could show an internalization of oppression just as easily as a resistance to oppression — which would mean a dream isn’t so free a realm after all. »
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