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I share a poem a day. Today, Jorge Luis Borges' 'On Acquiring an Encyclopedia'.

The ATS, an ERC-20 token based on the Ethereum technology, is a unit of exchange on a new Blockchain based book publishing system. Authors, publishers and translators are rewarded with ATS tokens in exchange

I share a poem a day. Today, Dorothy Parker's 'Resumé'. Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live

Great news for Bolano fans. Alicia Scherson has announced she will adapt Roberto Bolaño’s ‘The Third Reich’ (El Tercer Reich). "Teaming up with producer Isabel Orellana at Araucaria Cine (“Nunca vas

I share a poem a day. Today, Emily Dickinson's “I lost a World the other day".

I share a poem a day. Today, Roberto Bolano's Romantic Dogs (Los Perros Romanticos). Back then, I’d reach the age of twenty and I was crazy. I’d lost a country but won a dream nothing else mattered. Not

These often overlooked urban sites pose interesting poetic interventions in the smoothness of the urban fabric. Sometimes they are planned and calculated, but at other times they appear unexpectedly. They

I’m an anarchist — anarchism is an ethic, its a way of behaving. Henri Cartier-Bresson. Born on this day, 1908. Henri Cartier-Bresson was a celebrated photographer. "What Tolstoy was for literature",

I share a poem a day. Today, Emily Dickinson.

Text by Sam Kriss LIKE THE DINOSAUR OF THE LAST SPLIT-SECOND, rearing up from a half-chewed swamp to watch a falling star skid down through the sky, like any other heavy thing on the edge of extinction,

Gorgeous timelapse of a total solar eclipse in 2015 over Spitzbergen, Norway

A number of new exciting critical books that came out last month. Please add others in the comment section. “Seen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes

I share a poem a day. Today, Constantine Cavafy. Translated title: Waiting for the Barbarians Original title: Περιμένοντας τους Bαρβάρους

Quartz published a great report on one of the biggest Bitcoin mining operations in the world. It is located in Inner Mongolia, PR China. People in the region moved from working in local coal mines, often

A quiz show on France's Next Great Philosopher featuring an 'interesting' panel... From existential comics

I share a poem a day. Today, Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated title: The Panther Original title: Der Panther From the movie Awakenings English: His gaze against the sweeping of the bars has grown so weary,

"A van has ploughed into crowds in Barcelona's Ramblas tourist area." More at the BBC website:

Why is it that the alt- and the old- right can't read Nietzsche properly? Is it intellectual laziness, deliberate malevolence? "The alt-right renounces Christianity but insists on defending Christendom

No surprises here.... "A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the mafia." (via The Guardian)

Source: dead philosophers