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The use of the term ‘architecture’ in Stone Circles is another sign of the way archaeology has mellowed. If architecture is defined as construction aesthetically conceived, then stone circles, which often have a clear entrance and worked surfaces to distinguish between the interior and the exterior, are unquestionably architecture.
Archive · Volume 46, 2024 - London Review of Books
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Dec 19, 2024 · One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as I did a few weeks ago. A former journalist turned fixer told me there were ‘no foreign tourists and journalists, no income for us and, with no development aid from France, most social development projects have come to a standstill’.
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A court summons arrived in December, alerting me that I had been selected for ‘special jury service’. An accompanying letter explained that the trial would be held at the court for the District of Columbia. It was due to begin on 4 March and was …
The Editors | Fredric Jameson 1934-2024
Sep 23, 2024 · Fredric Jameson died yesterday at the age of 90. He had taught since 1985 at Duke University. His many books include The Political Unconscious, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism and The Antinomies of Realism (reviewing which, Michael Wood observed that ‘Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think but almost no one does’).
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John Lanchester · Short Cuts: Inside the Thatcher Larp
Oct 20, 2022 · L arping, or live action role play, is a hobby in which people dress up as their preferred fantasy object – elves, goblins, Cavaliers v.Roundheads, Confederates v. Unionists, aliens, victims of a zombie apocalypse, intergalactic adventurers, und so weiter – and collectively participate in a shared imaginative world.
Contents · Vol. 46 No. 19 · 10 October 2024
England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson. Cambridge, 323 pp., £30, November 2023, 978 1 009 25357 4
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Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Poem’
Jorie Graham, the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-94.Her other collections include The End of Beauty, P L A C E and Runaway.To 2040 came out last year.