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The political life of dreams
« Dreams could show an internalization of oppression just as easily as a resistance to oppression — which would mean a dream isn’t so free a realm after all. »
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A letter from
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Can AI have a headache?
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The sea between
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When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar
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Mapping starvation
On 21 August, Forensic Architecture, a London-based agency that investigates acts of state violence and lawlessness worldwide, released its latest project: « The Architecture of…
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Re-generationThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Photos of young cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, who prove that after decades of depletion, soil recovery is possible.
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Yellow, mellow, smellow
The use of the colon in titling, and other laments.
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Sick men of EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»
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Miracle & yonderThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Paul Simon’s Graceland & country music’s global history. «The idea of anti-apartheid country music is counter-intuitive but profound.»
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The Three Body SolutionThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The Chinese Communist Party embraces the sci-fi hit The Three Body Problem.
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Photographer, refugee, king
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