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Enjoy culture: a self-indulgent post

When your host in Chapel Hill is a PhD student in Italian Literature, it should not come as a surprise if he invites you to attend one of the many lectures that the University of North Carolina has to offer. My chance came today: I had the pleasure of hearing Prof. Jeffrey Schnapp of Stanford [...]

Pictures of North Carolina

Here’s a little, easy game: let’s see if you can relate some of the pictures to some of the latest posts.
All photos by Nàrcisz Fejes (tha-anks!)

Marathon

The two girls dance frantically in the space in front of the stage: they move around the floor, a few times almost hitting the waitresses passing by with plates and glasses. They laugh as they spin round and round, they lean against the loudspeakers – at one point they even lay their heads directly onto [...]

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Hope for the late bloomers

You might remember me mentioning a locomotive in a recent post: it lay still with its carts on a track for a few days, its engine on, humming. Passing by it on my daily walk to town, I started wondering whether this freight train would ever move – and why on earth its locomotive was [...]

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…the awareness that we are, in this network, dots crossed by numberless lines; that we wear and present to others different masks at different times – to the point that our sense of identity withers away. The creation of our own escapist universe, which is not less uncertain than reality, but delusionally more manageable. Finally, our relationship with technology, at the same time useful and threatening.…

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