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Topic: Europe

  • Neanderthal aesthetics

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

  • Without cause

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    « The exercise here is of a philosopher who would review the AI Act as a text. »

  • « 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.

  • 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.

  • On location

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    Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?

  • The cemetery-goer

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    On the travels of Karl-Markus Gauß, and the unlikely guardians of the dream of Europe.

  • Flags & bones

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    On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?

  • 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…

  • Europas & bulls

    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.

  • It wasn’t the beer

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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…

  • Who will speak European? A puzzle

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    Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the projection of its continent.