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Essays


  • Cretan Europa’s second comingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Citizen’s day in Fiesole, December 2021. In the EU, Christian Europe stands in quantum superposition, both here and not here. Can Cretan Europa help us imagine better futures?

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  • A messy optical process

    On orthodoxies & heresies of typography. To serif, or sans-serif?

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  • Football is not football

    How do literary movements arise? About thirty years ago, I watched one emerge out of nothing: the subgenre of « literary » football books and magazines. Not exactly the birth of modernism, but it still taught me something about how cultural transmission works within Europe.

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  • A kayak in ZierikzeeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.

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