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What Can Greta Do?
What Can Greta Do?
The Urgent Ascent of a Climate Activist
Magazine / society
Today, Greta Thunberg is an icon of the battle against global warming. The unassuming 16-year-old has brought impetus to a worldwide youth movement, but what comes next?
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The Transformation
Magazine / literature
Our writer imagines an episode from the life of the alchemist Michał Sędziwój, who, after attempting the transmutation of gold, starts to see the world differently...
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Laniakea
Media / Photo
Sławomir Pawszak’s photograms are genetically consistent with the direction of artistic experiments focused on “drawing”, or rather “painting” with light. In form, his works are the closest to Karol Hiller’s heliographic images, albeit more for the idea they follow rather than the technique as such.
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Are We There Yet?
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Genetic Marginalia
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The Gospel According to Pinker
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What Can Greta Do?
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An Introduction to Charles Bernstein’s “The Darkness He Called Night”
Literature
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deep soundings
The Darkness He Called Night
Reading / literature
“Virtue’s a kind / of despair, / masquerading as care.” A poem by a leading American ‘Language poet’.
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deep soundings
An Introduction to Charles Bernstein’s “The Darkness He Called Night”
Reading / literature
Charles Bernstein’s poem “The Darkness He Called Night” is typically playful and ironic, as it toys with the literal and metaphorical meanings of darkness, light and virtue.
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Fiedorczuk
On Interbeing
Reading / feuilleton
Interconnectedness – the idea that everything is connected with everything else – is a pertinent example of how science can meet with poetry and spirituality.
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The Bikini in Cinema
The Bikini in Cinema
A Visual History
Reading / culture
On its 73rd birthday, we celebrate the bikini’s most iconic appearances in Polish and international film.
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Kyotographie
Kyotographie
A Conversation About the Future of Photography
Reading / culture
Art historian Ania Diduch talks with photographer Wojtek Wieteska about erotic woodcuts, garden photography and a new kind of spatial thinking at the recent Kyotographie photography festival in Japan.
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Night
Reading / literature
A lonely man sits in his Minsk apartment, catching up on the latest developments in artificial intelligence. His girlfriend rings him from Nepal, just as a world-changing event begins in the sky above... An excerpt from a Belarusian novel set in the near future.
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July in History
July in History
Diary of an Eternal Pessimist
Reading / society
Our eternally pessimistic correspondent gives his historical highlights for the month of July.
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Rubedo
Media / Photo
The starting point of the visual essay “Rubedo”, produced in the form of a three-channelled animation, is Jakub Woynarowski’s curatorial project “Echoes” from 2014, as well as the accompanying performative lecture “Redrum”, prepared in collaboration with Kuba Mikurda.
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Could Have
Reading / literature
A poem by a Polish Nobel Prize winner, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
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Uncle Sam
Reading / literature
Dougal has just arrived in Lagos to meet Chief Ernest, a Nigerian man who emailed the British schoolteacher about his late uncle’s inheritance. It seems like a 419, but who’s scamming who?
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Emotional Illusions
Emotional Illusions
An Interview with Eva Illouz
Magazine / society
Eva Illouz talks about the privatization of emotion, the mistakes of the contemporary Left, and the age of immunity to truth.
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From the Series Tuesday - Saturday
Media / Photo
Photograph by the famous duo Marina Abramovic & Ulay
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The Practice of Heedlessness
Reading / Commentary
Our in-house ‘coaching guru’ shares his wisdom – this week on the practice of developing a truly heedless mind.
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Comrade Batman
Comrade Batman
How HBO’s “Chernobyl” Ignores the Nuances of Soviet Language
Reading / culture
The latest miniseries from HBO beautifully captures Soviet aesthetics, but is lacking elsewhere. A Belarusian writer suggests that “Chernobyl” fails to portray the complex nuances of language in a society enslaved by totalitarianism.
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Spinebone Soup and Stuffed Rabbits
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Some years ago, I began refusing to eat meat entirely. My objection being based neither on ecological nor ethical grounds, I could only guess at what mechanism of a personal eschatology drove my alimentary choice. – Ksenia Yurkova
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A Trip To Świder
Reading / literature
“Are you going to Świder? / Because I’m going to Świder.” A poem by a “Przekrój” favourite.
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The Girls with Pigtails