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  • Psychopaths and AI never know when to shut up

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    What Patrick Bateman, ChatGPT and Sara Machina have in common.

  • Feeling political together

    Feeling political together

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    A four-hour journey into populist algorithms, and a soup that never got made.

  • The West’s West and the rest’s West

    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 »

  • Eight hours don’t make a day

    Eight hours don’t make a day

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    A story about the art of disappearance

  • Saving the angel

    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…

  • On being plagiarized

    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. »

  • Open the drawer

    Open the drawer

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    Visiting his hometown, Tartus, he opened a drawer of old family photographs.

  • What Sweden is, not

    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. »

  • The Passion of strangers: a philosophy of friendship

    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.

  • « Friendship is revolutionary » — Interview with Marina Garcés

    « 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. »

  • Looted libraries

    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? »

  • A woman in Tangiers: against erasure

    A woman in Tangiers: against erasure

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    « I detect the head of a mannequin. Then the grains get too coarse. »