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Library: Pearls

  • Animal Anti-Cities

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    « A black cat sneaks across a flower bed toward a shed, past some asters, and squeezes into a gap an arm’s width wide. Some worn-down club-goers lay wasted on…

  • Sugar Mouse

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    A poem, plus a note on tongue-like mice and the translation of mice-like tongues.

  • Bee Gees FAQ

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    Fragen, Antworten, Quintessenzen.

  • On paths not taken

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    « Genocide Studies » is a house with many rooms. It accommodates and even encourages a broadening of its central concept. And like all academic fields, it presumes its object…

  • Place, non-place, place

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    « What happened was that we were driving on the highway from Izola towards Koper when we saw a drummer on the side of the road. So I immediately drove…

  • The void that fills the void

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    Relics, and the places devoted to their worship, dotted the map of Europe and the Middle East. Saints, like today’s celebrities, were both omnipresent and faraway, once-vulnerable people who became…

  • Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimable

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    On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.

  • It wasn’t the beer

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    How could it be that despite decades of rigorous European unification, of open borders and largely adjusted standards of living, a virus was able to kill up to 40 times…

  • How to write; or, how to insult

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    Shoulders were slapped, fingers pointed, hearts fired up. Perhaps a little scuffle broke out after class, a boisterous wrestling over insults exchanged. Nothing to be concerned about. Acquiring knowledge was,…

  • Who will speak European? A puzzle

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    Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the projection of its continent.

  • VOID FILL

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    On multinational packaging systems, « inflated fictions of transparency », desire and fulfillment.

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    No one would have understood both the sentiment and the absurdity more keenly than Marx himself, whose face has adorned real currencies in more countries than anyone else’s, with the…