Philosophy
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Saving the angel
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« This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. »
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The Passion of strangers: a philosophy of friendship
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Translated from the Catalan into English by Julie Wark A bond of free laws Friendship is the emotional bond that exists between people who are not united by other relationships — family, workplace, neighborly, nationality, and others — or subject to any of their purposes. Although it can be part of any of these spheres,…
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« Friendship is revolutionary » — Interview with Marina Garcés
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« I think reimagining relationships of distance and proximity is interesting in order to go beyond romantic ideas of neighbors. »
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A letter from
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« Even if you feel at home in time and space today, you know that you are already in mourning for the future loss of everything that is beautiful. This is the first time humanity is mourning in the future tense. »
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Can AI have a headache?
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« This summer my inner warrior was kissed back alive by an unlikely figure: the Pope. »
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~ Potpourri: Florence
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Langer, the Europeanist, the practical pacifist, the man who inaugurated Italian environmentalism and inspired European environmentalism.
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Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (2)
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« We are not aware of how defeated we are as intellectuals. »
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Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of Jerusalem
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A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.
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Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (1)
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With Ece Temelkuran the ERB’s Sander Pleij texts about envy…
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Texting with … Kamil Ahsan
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With Kamil Ahsan the ERB’s Sander Pleij texted about editing a editing international yet regional magazines…
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Something rotten
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On the sanatoriums of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.
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Neanderthal aesthetics
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Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, reviewed. «If we discovered a Neanderthal novel, would we be worthy of it?»