Issue Ten
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The West’s West and the rest’s West
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« To see the West as a process means that France was at one time westernized. Rome was westernized. Greece was westernized »
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8 hours don’t make a day
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A story about the art of disappearance Before Sara showed me how easy it was to alter documents, I was merely a social worker on probation at the Emergency Shelter for Women in Berlin. I remember the first intake I handled alone: a woman with two plastic bags, no socks, and an expired visa. She…
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Saving the angel
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« 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 piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. »
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On being plagiarized
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« 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
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Visiting his hometown, Tartus, he opened a drawer of old family photographs.
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What Sweden is, not
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« 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
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Translated from the Catalan into English by Julie Wark A bond of free laws Friendship is the emotional bond that exists between people who are not united by other relationships — family, workplace, neighborly, nationality, and others — or subject to any of their purposes. Although it can be part of any of these spheres,…
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« Friendship is revolutionary » — Interview with Marina Garcés
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« I think reimagining relationships of distance and proximity is interesting in order to go beyond romantic ideas of neighbors. »
