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  • Back to the officeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    From the office of the future to the office of the past. What endures?

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  • The Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center is a Metabolist pearlThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    « The office of the future » is all well and good, but what can be learned from the offices of the past that have sustained? Like: The Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center in Tokyo.

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  • The Reliance is a revolutionary pigeon havenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    « The office of the future » is all well and good, but what can be learned from the offices of the past that have sustained? Like: The Reliance building in Chicago.

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  • Aarhus City Hall is a GesamtkunstwerkThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    « The office of the future » is all well and good, but what can be learned from the offices of the past that have sustained? Like: Aarhus City Hall.

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  • No pityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    The documentary When spring came to Bucha reaches beyond common representations of war and one-dimensional victimhood.

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  • Animal Anti-CitiesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    « 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 sofas, sweat and smoke in a late-summer landscape. » On Berlin clubs and Calvino’s cat flâneurs.

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  • Sugar MouseThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

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

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  • Bee Gees FAQThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Fragen, Antworten, Quintessenzen.

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  • On paths not takenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    « 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 of study will always be there.

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  • Place, non-place, placeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    « 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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  • The void that fills the voidThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    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 something more than human.

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  • Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimableThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.

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  • It wasn’t the beerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    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 more people in one country than in another, only a few hundred kilometers away?

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  • How to write; or, how to insultThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    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, after all, a combative affair.

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  • Who will speak European? A puzzleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

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

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