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Revolution

  • Neanderthal aesthetics

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    Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, reviewed. «If we discovered a Neanderthal novel, would we be worthy of it?»

  • Independence and/or Death

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    Brazilian artist Jaime Lauriano recreated the iconic painting Independence or Death (1822). A scorched earth remains in his own Independence and Death (2022).

  • Moscow on the Med

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    Two winters in Istanbul. If you are a holder of a Russian passport, there are few places in the Western hemisphere that you can go without a visa.

  • Ice queens, sex machines

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    Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?

  • The case of the missing elephant

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    On animal charisma and animal vengeance. What happens when an elephant goes missing a year after her death.

  • How to people a landscape

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    On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »

  • The inborn germ

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    Why death? Who or what dies? Philosophers tend not to explain, but to justify. When do such questions become biological questions? Does it help?