Current Preoccupations
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~ Potpourri: Amsterdam
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A place where everything that cannot be endured aboveground finds its refuge.
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~ Potpourri: Paris
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Copi channels his fascination with lowlives, queer people, immigrants and other outcasts
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~ Potpourri: Florence
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Langer, the Europeanist, the practical pacifist, the man who inaugurated Italian environmentalism and inspired European environmentalism.
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~ Potpourri: Spain
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It’s one of those non-fiction chronicles in which the topic doesn’t really matter.
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~ Potpourri: France
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« Chaos is no longer the weapon of the rebels but the banner of those in power. »
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~ Potpourri: Malta
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He tried to live as if none of it had ever happened, but some stories don’t let you go.
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The Emperor’s New Clothes Part II: Crowds and Phones
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Last week, I found myself waiting in a long line of twenty-something-year-olds in fancy dress, Goths in black leather and chains, trans waifs in white pancake makeup and platform wedgies.…
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« The Emperor’s Clothes »
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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…
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« Mother Has Arrived »
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Last Saturday I saw a play called « Mother Has Arrived ». It was written and directed by Than Hussein Clark, an American artist based in Glasgow and Genoa. His…
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D’win Erbyn, Genocide
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The elderly gentleman seemed at first sight to be having some kind of seizure. He was lying on the ground, his body shaking convulsively. Young men and women in yellow…