Europe
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Europas & bulls
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A logo might start as a designer’s whim. Only then does one look for meanings to fill it with. On Europas: mythic, artistic, fictional, political, psychological, satirical, and finally unfinished.
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It wasn’t the beerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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How could it be that despite decades of rigorous European unification, of open borders and largely adjusted standards of living, a virus was able to kill up to 40 times more people in one country than in another, only a few hundred kilometers away?
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Who will speak European? A puzzleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the projection of its continent.
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Cretan Europa’s second comingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Citizen’s day in Fiesole, December 2021. In the EU, Christian Europe stands in quantum superposition, both here and not here. Can Cretan Europa help us imagine better futures?
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The pinnacle of cartography is the pinnacle of uselessness
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« Europe », drawn from memory or intuition. Thick and thin strokes of charcoal: a nod to the coal and steel on which the polity of modern Europe is founded. But more mystical, too: these drawings represent « the conviction that simple tools can grant us the power to face the god of paper. »
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Football is not football
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How do literary movements arise? About thirty years ago, I watched one emerge out of nothing: the subgenre of « literary » football books and magazines. Not exactly the birth of modernism, but it still taught me something about how cultural transmission works within Europe.
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A kayak in ZierikzeeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.
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Do we need a European Review of Books?
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« If I were to do it again from scratch, » Jean Monnet, a founder of the European Union, supposedly said in the ’70s, « I would start with culture. » Well, who wouldn’t?