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Block 2

  • Word War

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    A story about destruction: « In a matter of minutes, the target is neutralised, the word is erased. »

  • Without cause

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    « The exercise here is of a philosopher who would review the AI Act as a text. »

  • Am Boden

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    A story about eternity. « A fully glued-on carpet is an uncompromising rejection of the future, a denial of death. »

  • Animal game

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    A story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »

  • The Mothers Grimm

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    What ties Gretel to her witch? Louise Glück’s poem Gretel in Darkness provides answers.

  • Independence and/or Death

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    Brazilian artist Jaime Lauriano recreated the iconic painting Independence or Death (1822). A scorched earth remains in his own Independence and Death (2022).

  • A worm’s-eye view of Gaza

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    An interview with Forensic Architecture’s founder Eyal Weizman. « Overground Gaza becomes de negative shape – the reflection – of Underground Gaza. »

  • Moscow on the Med

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    Two winters in Istanbul. If you are a holder of a Russian passport, there are few places in the Western hemisphere that you can go without a visa.

  • The coldest, cleanest water in Europe

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    Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?

  • Ice queens, sex machines

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    Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?

  • What an animal isn’t

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    Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.

  • « Everything starts with fire » — Interview with Hélène Cixous

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    « The smell was like the sharp notes of a trumpet, a sort of rat-tat-tat like a burst of gunfire, a bombardment. »