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Season’s bleatings from Germany
A search for plenitude in the Christmas markets of Bonn, Siegburg and Köln
December 23, 2023 -
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My Kafkaesque nightmare in Prague
How a family holiday redefined my understanding of modernist literature
October 2, 2023 -
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Book review: White Sight, Nicholas Mirzoeff
Nineteenth century civic statues are so boring. Colourless, elevated, obscure, pompous, they have, for a very long time, eluded questioning. To topple one of these monuments, to go so far as to dump one into the sea, is to make the whatever bronze idol, appear to us fresh, and in disgrace. If there is such …
April 6, 2023 -
Book: Mimesis: culture – art – society by Gunter Gebauer and Christoph Wulf
Whereas the word has its ancient Greek roots in ‘mime’ and is related to ‘mimicry’, mimesis is not mere imitation. As this book shows, there is enough meaning in the term to have kept philosophers chewing it over for the last two millennia. But the discussion remains vital because the stakes are high. Facts, Gebauer …
March 29, 2021