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  • The Palestinian seafront of the future — Joséphine Baker in Haifa

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    Long ago, on the coast of Palestine, an elegant Modernist casino was frequented by Muslims, Christians, and Jews. One night in 1943 Joséphine Baker performed.

  • How to abandon an archive

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    When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?

  • The body in the crushed roses

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    Excerpt from Sergei Lebedev’s new novel The Lady of the Mine (2025), set near a Ukrainian coal mine that buries atrocities from the past.

  • Pixel War

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    Meet the strangest strangers, incels, conspiracy theorists, cyberpunks and Wikipedians.

  • Word War

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    A story about destruction: « In a matter of minutes, the target is neutralised, the word is erased. »

  • A worm’s-eye view of Gaza

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    An interview with Forensic Architecture’s founder Eyal Weizman. « Overground Gaza becomes de negative shape – the reflection – of Underground Gaza. »

  • « We are the winners of Eurovision »

    « We are the winners of Eurovision »

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    Lithuania has lost the Eurovision Song Contest thirty times.

  • The size of longing

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    On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment

  • Last resort

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    On Dora Kellner, Walter Benjamin and the biography of a hotel

  • Europe disenchanted

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    A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?

  • Corrupted, yet intact

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    On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.

  • An axe to grind should make you sharper

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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. »