Fernanda Eberstadt
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Current Preoccupations, week 40
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Last week, I found myself waiting in a long line of twenty-something-year-olds in fancy dress, Goths in black leather and chains, trans waifs in white pancake makeup and platform wedgies. The line snaked around a block by London’s St. James Palace; the evening was warm, and the mood convivial. It was opening night: we were…
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Current Preoccupations, week 38
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Last Saturday I saw a play called « Mother Has Arrived ». It was written and directed by Than Hussein Clark, an American artist based in Glasgow and Genoa. His project was half of a larger installation called « Anal Peace » that is being shown at Corvi-Mora, an art-gallery in South London. Clark’s half…
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Current Preoccupations, week 37
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The elderly gentleman seemed at first sight to be having some kind of seizure. He was lying on the ground, his body shaking convulsively. Young men and women in yellow hi-vis jackets, whom I took to be paramedics, were bent over, questioning him. Then they picked him up by his arms and legs and head…
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Mapping starvation
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On 21 August, Forensic Architecture, a London-based agency that investigates acts of state violence and lawlessness worldwide, released its latest project: « The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation in Gaza ». The next day, the United Nations declared that Gaza had officially entered a state of famine. We spoke to senior researcher at FA Nour Abuzaid,…
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« Tham dii day dii » – Thai farmworkers in Israel
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Modern Zionism’s founding ideology, in which diaspora Jews would be redeemed by working the soil, has long ceded to neoliberalism’s imperatives
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A worm’s-eye view of Gaza
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An interview with Forensic Architecture’s founder Eyal Weizman. « Overground Gaza becomes de negative shape – the reflection – of Underground Gaza. »
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From the knacker’s yard
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On the fallen animals loved by Heinrich von Kleist & Curzio Malaparte.
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And I stripped naked and became a man
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The remarkable diary of third-century martyr Perpetua — a young mother sentenced to death — shows a soft, milky mother-body resisting a military-industrial empire. Texting with Fernanda Eberstadt SANDER PLEIJ Texting with Fernanda Eberstadt While on tour in the US and the UK, Fernanda Eberstadt answers a few questions about her new book Bite My Friends, via text. Portrait…
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An axe to grind should make you sharper
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Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. « Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit. »
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Coagulated soy juice
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〖 A killed darling. 〗 Lucia Berlin belonged to a less sanctimonious age than ours.
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Marx and the art of natural winemaking
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The grapes are tiny, burnt to a crisp. It’s day two of the harvest, in late August — freakishly early in a year of drought and heat waves. What is wine?