Block 2
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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 piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. »
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On being plagiarizedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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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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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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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Can AI have a headache?
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« This summer my inner warrior was kissed back alive by an unlikely figure: the Pope. »
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Tree illness as metaphorThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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What do we tell ourselves when all the trees simply vanish?
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The great schizophreniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.