History
Forget your darlings
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On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.
Visit the extractocene!
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The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.
Corrupted, yet intact
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On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
How to people a landscape
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On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »
Doom is in the details
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Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.
The pulverization of memory
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Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.
An archeology of the air
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On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm
The invention of austerity
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Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?
No man’s land
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On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?
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?