Issue Three

APRIL 2023

Issue Three arrives in fuchsia. In its pages: medieval wind power, Forensic Architecture, Climate commentary as tragedy & farce, fashionable fascism, Ukrainian jokes, romance in Kuala Lumpur, words and worlds found in translation. Who guards the dream of Europe?


  • How to people a landscape

    On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »


  • « My ghost, we do no batshit »

    On the untranslatability of Ukrainian jokes


  • The art of losing

    On artificial intelligence, murderous elephants & Elizabeth Bishop


  • The cemetery-goer

    On the travels of Karl-Markus Gauß, and the unlikely guardians of the dream of Europe.


  • The Mass of Mies

    « Less is more »? The scale and shape of his body gave the architect Mies van der Rohe an unequaled weight and architectural authority.


  • Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

    On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »


  • Doom is in the details

    Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.


  • An axe to grind should make you sharper

    Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. « Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit. »


  • Perhentian Sunrise

    A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »


  • The pulverization of memory

    Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.

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