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Overcoming Thrownness in the World
Wishing on a Star (Péter Kerekes, 2024) Also published in Croatian here. “Most people want to find love in life” is a persuasive observation made by the astrologer Luciana, whose work centers on helping people improve their lives. Much like psychotherapy, her ability to interpret others’ confessions—particularly when paired with astrological insight—is designed to help…
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Serene Images of Terror
Intercepted (Oksana Karpovych, 2024) Read in Croatian here. A ruin is recognizable by its incompleteness and dysfunctionality. To observe it is to reconstruct in one’s mind the reasons and steps that led to the destruction of the former structure. A ruin speaks to its observers through an absence they constantly attempt to fill—fragmentation compels them…