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Into the void

  • The coldest, cleanest water in Europe

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    Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?

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

  • Bee Gees FAQ

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    Fragen, Antworten, Quintessenzen.

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

  • 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 something more than human.

  • Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimable

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    On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.

  • 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 possible exception of Elizabeth II.

  • Firsts in space

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