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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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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…
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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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Friendship is the only stable social relationship for which « paperwork » has not been invented.
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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. »
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Looted libraries
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« In both countries, it has left the government officials grappling with an extremely delicate and complex issue. Why is it so difficult to move forward? »
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A woman in Tangiers: against erasure
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« I detect the head of a mannequin. Then the grains get too coarse. »
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The political life of dreams
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« Dreams could show an internalization of oppression just as easily as a resistance to oppression — which would mean a dream isn’t so free a realm after all. »
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A letter from
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« Even if you feel at home in time and space today, you know that you are already in mourning for the future loss of everything that is beautiful. This is…