Philosophy
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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?»
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Interjections
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Non-words for the remembered & unremembered violence of Bulgarian labor camps.
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Without cause
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« The exercise here is of a philosopher who would review the AI Act as a text. »
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The Mothers Grimm
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What ties Gretel to her witch? Louise Glück’s poem Gretel in Darkness provides answers.
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The coldest, cleanest water in Europe
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Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?
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Tragedy & farce in climate commentary
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« We are fucked » vs. « It’s not too late ». The Club of Rome’s Earth for All offers a burst of stubborn optimism. But when does stubborn optimism become cruel optimism?
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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?