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Alexander Carnera

Carnera is a freelance writer living in Copenhagen.
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To imitate nature in order to master it

Michael Taussig: Mastery of Non-mastery in the Age of Meltdown
THE MIMETIC POWER: Imitating another is also a way to gain power over the person portrayed. And how often do we see an imitation of the cosmos at a bar in a dark side street?
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A world that is subtle, beautiful, ugly and strange

Chris Kraus: Where art belongs
ART: Does the artist today work constantly burdened by network care, communication and visibility, without producing anything truly created? Chris Kraus gives his take on what an artistic work should be.
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The healing power of the community

Byung-Chul: The Disappearance of Rituals
RITUALS: The compulsion of neoliberalism to be on, to communicate, to make visible, to be busy, creates, according to Byung-Chui Han, reflex, narcissism, depression and an aggressive psychological emptiness.
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To love is to be seized by the incomprehensibility and generosity of the world

Ashraf Ezzat: Sea of ​​love. Transforming Journey to Egypt
DOCUMENTS: Ancient Egyptian art and the later Sufi tradition have access to insights that modern man has gradually forgotten.
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Too much is governed by the recognizable, the reproducible, the interchangeable

Alexander Hooke: Alphonso Lingis and Existential Genealogy
KNOWLEDGE: Where is it that, according to author Alexander Hooke, "does not fit into a familiar cultural epic pattern, opera, tragedy, romance, ballet, comedy, vaudeville, sitcom, or farce"?
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literature

The experience of the world

Ben Okri: The Freedom Artist
dystopic: Who is locked inside without knowing it, who is outside in the open? Who is free to ask the important questions?
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fiction (book)

Corona night

PROSA POETRY: What are our thoughts, where are we, or any of us, under the danger of epidemics Corona Virus?
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literature

The road to true anarchism

Giorgio Agamben: Creation and Anarchy. The work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism
Agamben: The archeology of religion, art, politics, and capitalism is not a search for any kind of origin – but a search for a foundation that tears past notions to their roots.
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The big backdrop world

Yu Hua Translator Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg: China in ten words
CHINA: Yu Hua shows how today's economically controlled China of 40 years has moved from peasant society to the most economically powerful country
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