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?
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Borrowed time is borrowed money
« We’re borrowing money from Germany, and nothing with ‘borrowed’ in the name sells. »〖 Found in translation 〗
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How to people a landscape
On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »
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Read between the stripes
How do Swedes perceived striped shirts? Great question.〖 Found in translation 〗
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The cemetery-goer
On the travels of Karl-Markus Gauß, and the unlikely guardians of the dream of Europe.
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Panties of the people
The hall burst into laughter. I was left completely puzzled.〖 Found in translation 〗
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Overalls & eyeglasses
The glasses looked surprisingly like the ones in my Facebook profile.〖 Found in translation 〗
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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.
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Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag
On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »
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Judge a book by its covers
The task is to hold your attention for more than three seconds.〖 Found in translation 〗
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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.
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« droid » ➞ « druid »
The translator had probably not been familiar with Star Wars.〖 Found in translation 〗
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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. »
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« Bidoon » ➞ « Bedouin »
A violent mistranslation I still find amusing was with a poem titled 1965.〖 Found in translation 〗
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Perhentian Sunrise
A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »
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The pulverization of memory
Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.
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Tragedy & farce in climate commentary
« 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 invention of austerity
Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?
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The inborn germ
Why death? Who or what dies? Philosophers tend not to explain, but to justify. When do such questions become biological questions? Does it help?