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    George Blaustein

    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 possible exception of Elizabeth II.

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    Cretan Europa’s second coming

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    Kalypso Nicolaïdis

    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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  • Woman is space

    Woman is space

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    Caroline Tracey

    « Space », or prostranstvo, is a key word for understanding the literary and philosophical history of Russia. Oksana Vasyakina’s Rana (Wound), a Siberian road novel, remakes the Russian landscape and the Russian novel for women’s worlds. It renders prostranstvo unruly, polysemous, queer.

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  • Firsts in space

    Firsts in space

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    Artemy M. Kalinovsky

    A friend of mine likes to say that the moon landing was real, but dumb. On astronautical tokenism.

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