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Philosophy

  • Saving the angel

    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…

  • The Passion of strangers: a philosophy of friendship

    The Passion of strangers: a philosophy of friendship

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    Friendship is the only stable social relationship for which « paperwork » has not been invented.

  • « Friendship is revolutionary » — Interview with Marina Garcés

    « 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. »

  • A letter from

    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…

  • Can AI have a headache?

    Can AI have a headache?

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    « This summer my inner warrior was kissed back alive by an unlikely figure: the Pope. »

  • ~ Potpourri: Florence

    ~ Potpourri: Florence

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    Langer, the Europeanist, the practical pacifist, the man who inaugurated Italian environmentalism and inspired European environmentalism.

  • Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (2)

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    « We are not aware of how defeated we are as intellectuals. »

  • Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of Jerusalem

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    A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.

  • Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (1)

    Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (1)

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    With Ece Temelkuran the ERB’s Sander Pleij texts about envy…

  • Texting with … Kamil Ahsan

    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…

  • Something rotten

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    On the sanatoriums of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

  • Neanderthal aesthetics

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