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      Bodies and weights

      As you stand in the middle of an art gallery, you might want to slowly turn your head around the room, like a camera filming one long...

      Beauty and fantasy

      Like ethical values, beauty is nowhere to be found in the territory that can be mapped by metaphysics. There is no such thing as the...

      Regaining foreignness

      When I first came to London eleven years ago, everybody around me sang like a bird. My English was so poor that I could hardly understand...

      Imagination and the desire to see

      Imagination has a bad name. In the common use of the term, imagination is associated either with childish fancies, or with the attitude...

      Smoker's breath

      I have been smoking heavily and uninterruptedly for the past 19 years. Even when both my lungs collapsed (one at a time, otherwise I...

      Why look after houseplants?

      Why look after houseplants? Aside from their obvious function as emotional filler, I mean. Aside from this aspect, what is there in...

      What is sleep like, when it sleeps?

      In recent times, growing attention has been devoted to sleep. Countless medical studies have shown sleep’s importance in reinvigorating...

      Holding things together

      Love is among the greatest mysteries. Its ability to hold together seemingly irreconcilable things has always inspired awe and reverence...

      Exiting history

      I spent most of my life worrying deeply about the invisible side of visibility. Recently, I’ve become more concerned with the visible...

      The instant between

      The history of human thought has always been traversed by tensions between opposite conceptual poles. Among them, one particular...
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