Fernanda Eberstadt
5 contributions
Marx and the art of natural winemaking
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?
An axe to grind should make you sharper
Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. «Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit.»
And I stripped naked and became a man
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.
From the knacker’s yard
On the fallen animals loved by Heinrich von Kleist & Curzio Malaparte.
A worm’s-eye view of Gaza
Forensic Architecture's founder Eyal Weizman on the Gazan subsoil, and one of the biggest mysteries about the digging of Gazan tunnels: where does all the sand go?