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Aegletes Coelispex

“Perfect Days” and the greatness of grand scales

What materials make up a life? What role do maturity, experiences, memories, and stimuli play in building a world in which one will spend the years given to them? How does one choose what is worth it from the infinite possibilities of experiences? How far...

Aegletes Coelispex

A historical and materialist Triangle of Sadness

The Palme d’Or of 2022 was the magnifying glass that History needs, in order for someone to focus on a very small scale, on micro-societies, and to understand the laws of social development on a larger scale. Of course, being an artistic work, apart from...

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“The Grapes of Wrath” are still being written

Usually, when I decide to write a book review on this blog, the project involves a book that I want to share with a wider audience, a new release, a hidden "gem," or simply something interesting that is not already in the awareness of many....

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Designing the 20th Century: Art Deco and Bauhaus

Industrial development, the liberation that followed the catastrophic First World War, and the transition from the politically aged societies that produced it to the political structures of the states that emerged after its end, created the need for many questions to be answered—about the very...

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Time for Space

I was given a ship in the middle of the ocean I didn’t know where we’re coming from I often ask my companions I’m listening to their stories I’m amazed with their tales I still wonder where are we coming from I still wonder why...