Europe
« 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 deeply European.
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 more people in one country than in another, only a few hundred kilometers away?
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.
Cretan Europa’s second coming
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Citizen’s day in Fiesole, December 2021. In the EU, Christian Europe stands in quantum superposition, both here and not here. Can Cretan Europa help us imagine better futures?
The pinnacle of cartography is the pinnacle of uselessness
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« Europe », drawn from memory or intuition. Thick and thin strokes of charcoal: a nod to the coal and steel on which the polity of modern Europe is founded. But more mystical, too: these drawings represent « the conviction that simple tools can grant us the power to face the god of paper. »