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  • Streuselkuchen

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    A story about coolness. « The phone rings. It is Jim Jarmusch, and he asks if I want to come over to his place. »

  • Schwarzeneggerology

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    On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »

  • How to people a landscape

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    On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »

  • « My ghost, we do no batshit »

    « My ghost, we do no batshit »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    On the untranslatability of Ukrainian jokes

  • The art of losing

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    On artificial intelligence, murderous elephants & Elizabeth Bishop

  • The cemetery-goer

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    On the travels of Karl-Markus Gauß, and the unlikely guardians of the dream of Europe.

  • The Mass of Mies

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    « Less is more »? The scale and shape of his body gave the architect Mies van der Rohe an unequaled weight and architectural authority.

  • Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

    Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

    On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »

  • Doom is in the details

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    Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.

  • An axe to grind should make you sharper

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    Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. « Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit. »

  • Perhentian Sunrise

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    A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »

  • The pulverization of memory

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    Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.