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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. »
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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. »
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How to people a landscape
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On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »
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The cemetery-goer
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On the travels of Karl-Markus Gauß, and the unlikely guardians of the dream of Europe.
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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.
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Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag
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On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »
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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.
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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. »
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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. »
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The pulverization of memory
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Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.