Maps
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The sea between
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« In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition of human life. »
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The size of longingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment
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The coldest, cleanest water in EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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?
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How to people a landscapeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »
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An axe to grind should make you sharperThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. « Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit. »
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The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard GlissantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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An excerpt from The Archipelago Conversations with the late French Carribean philosopher and poet. « The archipelagos of the Mediterranean must encounter the archipelagos of Asia, and the archipelago of the Antilles. »
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The Ogre, the Monk and the MaidenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.
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Planes, tanks & automobilesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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You could tell the US army had arrived because the local garages had sold out of whiskey. Old maps, new wars & vanishing memories along the Polish-Ukrainian border.
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BorderlandThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The great storm surge is coming, it has always been coming in the borderland between Denmark and Germany. Here, Danish writer Dorthe Nors visits the Frisian Wadden Sea island of Sylt, as part of her travels along the North Sea coast.
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Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimableThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.
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Ukraine yesterday & tomorrow
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Ukraine didn’t become an epicenter of world history all of a sudden; it became an epicenter again.
