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All is not vanityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Lose, delete, restore. What to remember when everything is always, forever, in a digital now?
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Bee Gees FAQThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Fragen, Antworten, Quintessenzen.
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To see a cityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? » Sewn together, the fragmented narratives of Daniela Hodrová’s City of Torment (Trýznivé město) make something…
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Google’s rise to dominance can seem inevitable, and its power over publishers monolithic. Yet Google’s wanton disruption of publishing resembles evolution more than intelligent design. Journalists, publishers, regulators, and scholars…
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What is a pillar?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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In 2010, OMA was invited to take part in a competition for the Damascus National Museum. It was part of a concerted effort toward a political « rapprochement » with Bashar al-Assad.…
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On paths not takenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Genocide Studies » is a house with many rooms. It accommodates and even encourages a broadening of its central concept. And like all academic fields, it presumes its object…
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Europas & bulls
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A logo might start as a designer’s whim. Only then does one look for meanings to fill it with. On Europas: mythic, artistic, fictional, political, psychological, satirical, and finally unfinished.
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A breast is a breast is a breastThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.
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Place, non-place, placeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« What happened was that we were driving on the highway from Izola towards Koper when we saw a drummer on the side of the road. So I immediately drove…
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Ballad of a Homburg hatThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On racial metonymy and the art of misidentification. (Meanwhile: has a glass of beer ever been more crisply and deliciously depicted? Has the froth of a European pilsner ever looked…
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The prodigal half-roosterThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom and Lea Ypi’s Free spoke past one another from half a world away. But both ask whether freedoms mean anything if they are not practiced in…
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The void that fills the voidThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Relics, and the places devoted to their worship, dotted the map of Europe and the Middle East. Saints, like today’s celebrities, were both omnipresent and faraway, once-vulnerable people who became…