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  • Child Kings

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    « Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »

  • Fables of wickedness for a liquid Europe

    Fables of wickedness for a liquid Europe

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    A story about traps

  • Of trotting horses & angelic words

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    I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.

  • Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling

    Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling

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    *wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)

  • Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (2)

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    « We are not aware of how defeated we are as intellectuals. »

  • Queen of the night

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    Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.

  • My untranslatable name

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    When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar

  • My tongue is Simón Bolívar’s wet dream

    My tongue is Simón Bolívar’s wet dream

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    My boyfriend had colombianized my Mexican. But my friends had also argentinized it, chileanized it, venezuelized it, ecuadorized it.

  • Honorable men sowed this war

    Honorable men sowed this war

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    Six poems

  • So, kill him [at Aulide]

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    here he is        in his bed, so scared                 he can’t move

  • After midnight

    After midnight

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    The modern world races forward with all its technological might, yet remains trapped in a reactive cycle of disasters. Necessary responses follow catastrophes rather than prevent them.

  • Mapping starvation

    Mapping starvation

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    On 21 August, Forensic Architecture, a London-based agency that investigates acts of state violence and lawlessness worldwide, released its latest project: « The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation in Gaza ».…