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  • ~ Potpourri: Spain

    ~ Potpourri: Spain

    It’s one of those non-fiction chronicles in which the topic doesn’t really matter.

  • « We are the winners of Eurovision »

    « We are the winners of Eurovision »

    Lithuania has lost the Eurovision Song Contest thirty times.

  • Noise’s grip

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    On Malta, noise is the norm.

  • Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

    Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

    On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »

  • The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard Glissant

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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. »

  • On Kafkaesque pedagogy

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    Not the nightmare one might instinctively expect. Franz Kafka and Stig Dagerman on parenthood vs. educatorhood: who can educate a child?

  • 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. »

  • Ballad of a Homburg hat

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    On racial metonymy and the art of misidentification. (Meanwhile: has a glass of beer ever been more crisply and deliciously depicted? Has the froth of a European pilsner ever looked so delectable?)

  • Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimable

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    On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.

  • Ukraine yesterday & tomorrow

    Ukraine yesterday & tomorrow

    Ukraine didn’t become an epicenter of world history all of a sudden; it became an epicenter again.