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  • Child Kings

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    « Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »

  • Queen of the night

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    Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.

  • Sick men of Europe

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    King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»

  • Two palindromes

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    → Setting of the Sun at West Mountain / Puffing & panting ←→ Worm-eaten Rimbaud / Always knowing whom ←

  • An archeology of the air

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    On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm

  • Of human children & language children

    Of human children & language children

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    The first word I ever wrote was stsikukha: « pisser ». This is how my nanny Frosya called me to my face. On poetry and pathos in a bastard tongue.

  • Glossomania-mania

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    On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.

  • To see a city

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    « What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? » Sewn together, the fragmented narratives of Daniela Hodrová’s City of Torment (Trýznivé město) make something…

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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…

  • The myth of 1922

    The myth of 1922

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    What does modern mean? In Brazil, it often meant an embrace of newness as the possibility of reinvention. In Modernity in Black and White: Art and Image, Race and Identity…

  • A kayak in Zierikzee

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    Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.