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The Ontology of China Mieville
China Mieville is a rare writer who manages to find originality in the sometimes-tired genre of sci-fi. The City and the City (2009) and Embassytown (2011)…
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Dying Cities
Back in 2009, Venice held its own funeral to mark the decline of the city’s population below 60,000, with mourners lining the banks of the canals…
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Indonesia Journal
13.03.17 A long car trip from Jimbaran to Lovina. Drove through landscapes verdant beyond reckoning. We climb and climb. Ears pop. Clouds hover over distant mountains.…
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A Good Year for the Machines
The assistant on my phone tells me that 2016 was its year – “The Year of AI!” Many articles with such titles have been suggested to…
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Paris – Lyon Journal
27.09.16 I'm sitting at a cafe at Place Contrescarpe, which is just off Rue Mouffetard, a narrow thoroughfare where artists and writers, such as Paul Verlaine,…
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Black Stones and Moon Gods
The Qur’an is poorly understood. Few non-Muslims have even read it, let alone know anything about the life of Mohammed. As is often the case, people’s…
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Mount Batur
Gunung Batur. An active volcano in the central highlands of Bali. The view across the…
Selong Belanak
The reflections of the lights of fishing boats offshore stretch towards me across the blackening…
The Shores
Walking along the ocean’s edge, I explore a miniature world of valleys and jagged peaks;…
Delhi Back Streets
A left and a right, or was it a right then a left? We are…
Old Meets New
A field of brilliant green rice paddies sits next to an area marked for development…
The Rock Garden
The garden is an exercise in anthropology. A sequence of spaces in which we see…