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  • ~ Potpourri: Malta

    ~ Potpourri: Malta

    He tried to live as if none of it had ever happened, but some stories don’t let you go.

  • Current Preoccupations, week 39

    Any fool can see that the head of state is naked, that he is a complete phony — except for himself. Such appears to be the premise of The Emperor’s Clothes, a fairy tale I see referred to more and more. Apparently, Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 parable is awfully relevant today. Reading yet another reference…

  • Letter to the editor

    Letter to the editor

    Issue Nine features the essay After Midnight, by Alexander Etkind and Johanna Gautier-Morin. Here’s a reaction to that essay, by Frances Butler, who has recently completed her PhD in Geography at UCL (University College, London) and is currently writing a book about climate responsibility and justice.

  • Mapping starvation

    Mapping starvation

    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 ». The next day, the United Nations declared that Gaza had officially entered a state of famine. We spoke to senior researcher at FA Nour Abuzaid,…

  • Texting with … Julia Kornberg

    Texting with … Julia Kornberg

    « There’s a desire to set things on fire, to make the world anew. »

  • Every end has a start

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    In 2005, Yamandú Roos embarked on the photographic project Europeans: one continent, forty countries, 65.000 kilometers.