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Issue Three

  • Judge a book by its covers

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    The task is to hold your attention for more than three seconds.〖  Found in translation  〗 

  • Doom is in the details

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    Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.

  • « droid » ➞ « druid »

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    The translator had probably not been familiar with Star Wars.〖  Found in translation  〗

  • 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. »

  • « Bidoon » ➞ « Bedouin »

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    A violent mistranslation I still find amusing was with a poem titled 1965.〖  Found in translation  〗

  • Perhentian Sunrise

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    A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »

  • The pulverization of memory

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    Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.

  • Tragedy & farce in climate commentary

    Tragedy & farce in climate commentary

    « We are fucked » vs. « It’s not too late ». The Club of Rome’s Earth for All offers a burst of stubborn optimism. But when does stubborn optimism become cruel optimism?

  • An archeology of the air

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    On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm

  • Found in translation

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    Or, the art of the error

  • The invention of austerity

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    Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?

  • No man’s land

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    On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?