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And I stripped naked and became a manThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The remarkable diary of third-century martyr Perpetua — a young mother sentenced to death — shows a soft, milky mother-body resisting a military-industrial empire. Texting with Fernanda Eberstadt SANDER PLEIJ Texting with Fernanda Eberstadt While on tour in the US and the UK, Fernanda Eberstadt answers a few questions about her new book Bite My Friends, via text. Portrait…
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The case of the missing elephantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On animal charisma and animal vengeance. What happens when an elephant goes missing a year after her death.
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Pigeon WaterThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.
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Visit the extractocene!This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.
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Corrupted, yet intactThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
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SchwarzeneggerologyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »
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« 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
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The art of losingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On artificial intelligence, murderous elephants & Elizabeth Bishop
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Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag
On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »
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An axe to grind should make you sharperThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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An archeology of the airThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm
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The inborn germThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Why death? Who or what dies? Philosophers tend not to explain, but to justify. When do such questions become biological questions? Does it help?
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Gerard Croiset & the adventure of the psychic detectiveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! »
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The room I am inThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Tight pants. Fashionable coats. Music. Defiant looks. On the last men & women who passed through the Bulgarian gulag.
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Planes, tanks & automobilesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
You could tell the US army had arrived because the local garages had sold out of whiskey. Old maps, new wars & vanishing memories along the Polish-Ukrainian border.