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  • A breast is a breast is a breast

    A breast is a breast is a breast

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    Alide Cagidemetrio

    To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.

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  • Place, non-place, place

    Place, non-place, place

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    Yamandú Roos

    « 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 to the side of the road and reversed my car and asked if I could take some pictures. »

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  • Ballad of a Homburg hat

    Ballad of a Homburg hat

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    Peter L’Official

    On racial metonymy and the art of misidentification. (Meanwhile: has a glass of beer ever been more crisply and deliciously depicted? Has the froth of a European pilsner ever looked so delectable?)

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  • The prodigal half-rooster

    The prodigal half-rooster

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    Linda Kinstler

    Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom and Lea Ypi’s Free spoke past one another from half a world away. But both ask whether freedoms mean anything if they are not practiced in public, and if they are not passed on — and whether the word « freedom » means anything at all.

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