☛ Magnum Photos: New Year 1967, Prague, Czechoslovakia, by Josef Koudelka. Image Reference KOJ1967001W00250/X (PAR289988). © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos.

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Below is a short selection of the posts I’ve published here in 2013. Some of them develop an argument about a specific topic, while others document an item of interest (previous yearly recaps: 2012, 2011, 2010)

• ‘Penser avec les mains’ (‘Thinking with Your Hands’) by Denis de Rougemont, 1936 (Jan. 30)
• Sneezing and slavery in Aristotle and Montaigne (Feb. 13)
• Of the ship ‘Alethia’ in ‘The Master’ by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012 (Feb. 23)
• The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: complete video recording from 1971 (Feb. 26)
• Karl Hugo Schmölz ― Cologne. Architectural photography of the fifties (Mar. 17)
• Don DeLillo, Jean-Luc Nancy, the missing community (Mar. 21)
• Boston Marathon Bombings: the Emergency Declaration as a State of Exception (Apr. 25)
• Grégoire Chamayou: bodies, manhunts and drones (Aug. 7)
• ‘Medium Cool’ by Haskell Wexler, 1969 (Aug. 18)
• Coexistence and antagonism: notes on global civil war (Aug. 28)
• Marshall McLuhan, John Colin Carothers and technological traumas (Oct. 31)
• The world is a business: the messianic capitalism of Arthur Jensen (Nov. 20)
• Joseph O. Holmes: A tribute to the projection booth (Dec. 12)
• ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ alleged Communist propaganda: the FBI files and HUAC hearings (Dec. 21)
• Camera obscura, ideology and Guy Debord’s spectacle (Dec. 30)