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  • Who will speak European? A puzzle

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    Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the projection of its continent.

  • On learning to write again

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    Ramallah, downtown, fifth floor. The phone rings and the caller’s number appears on the screen. It’s an unknown number. And yet a call that comes at this hour must be…

  • VOID FILL

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    On multinational packaging systems, « inflated fictions of transparency », desire and fulfillment.

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    No one would have understood both the sentiment and the absurdity more keenly than Marx himself, whose face has adorned real currencies in more countries than anyone else’s, with the…

  • Cretan Europa’s second coming

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    Citizen’s day in Fiesole, December 2021. In the EU, Christian Europe stands in quantum superposition, both here and not here. Can Cretan Europa help us imagine better futures?

  • Woman is space

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    « Space », or prostranstvo, is a key word for understanding the literary and philosophical history of Russia. Oksana Vasyakina’s Rana (Wound), a Siberian road novel, remakes the Russian landscape and the…

  • Firsts in space

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    A friend of mine likes to say that the moon landing was real, but dumb. On astronautical tokenism.

  • By misadventure

    By misadventure

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    A short story about vertigo from the author of Utopia Avenue, Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green. « Possibly a dare, or a rite of passage, hung in the air.…

  • A kayak in Zierikzee

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    Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.

  • Only stupidity is hereditary

    Only stupidity is hereditary

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    There sits a donkey before an open book, held between his forehooves in such a way that we can clearly see the pages. It is a family tree of sorts,…