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Alexander Carnera

Carnera is a freelance writer living in Copenhagen.

Venice Biennial: What happens when man is no longer the center?

PHOTOGRAPHY: This year's Venice Art Biennale shows us a different world, more tangled, unsettling, weird and fragile at the same time. From each room, vibrant lines are drawn between disaster and collapse, colonialism and belonging, human and machine.

A feeling in motion

In his new book, French philosopher Francois Jullien maps both China's historical view of nature and landscape, and partly a philosophy of life as modern Chinese and we in the West can be inspired by.

Scars into a foreign soul

Have we lost nature, understood as the framework of cycle and cruelty and otherness that is not part of ourselves, but an outside?

When the Ball Comes – About Life Wonder and a Common World

A marvelous ecopoetic journey to join the world.

Not quite the same as kindness, gentleness, generosity, as goodness, as sweet, as soft, as the quality of velvet, as subtle secret

A beautiful and wise book about daring as an active passivity and resistance in ethics and politics.

The depressive as society's seismograph

To regain faith in the future and the ability to steer away from the collapse of the world, we must begin with the imagination.

A sense of living in a time when the world is dying

How can the story of a grocery store employee capture so many readers worldwide?

From silence we have come, to silence we shall be

… And only by silence can we be resurrected. 

When the spirit disappeared

Both Schanz and Thomsen defend the belief that man is more than culture and more than his biological constituents – man is also spirit, they claim.