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How to avoid eating the world:

From degrowth to a sustainable food system transformation Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 05/16/2022 •    To make our food system more sustainable, curbing growth or shifting incomes alone...

WordCaves: Celan’s Insi/ght/de/s

A poem from Paul Celan’s volume Threadsuns in my translation. It is one of Celan’s more programmatic poems, speaking as it does to his writing in the later years, starting with Breathturn, & gathered...

CO2 & Covid-19

Press Release from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 10/14/2020 Biggest CO2 drop: Real-time data show Covid-19’s massive impact on global emissions While the ongoing Corona pandemic continues to threaten millions of...

Mohammed Dib: Celebrating 100 Years

Via the always excellent ArabLit Today: The great Algerian author Mohammed Dib was born 100 years ago today: At least four French publications are celebrating the Dib centenary: There has been a reissue of Dib’s...

Commentaries on 6 Paul Celan Poems

Re: Tenebrae, White and Light, Speech-Grille, Snowbed, Matière de Bretagne & Rubble Scow   These are reduced translated versions, with some additional materials, of Barbara Wiedemann’s superb KOMMENTAR in her Paul Celan: Neue kommentierte Gesamtausgabe. Die Gedichte (Suhrkamp 2018)...

More Michel Deguy…

… below now the video recording of the prose (i.e. philosophy)-part that follows the previous day’s poem (I have not had time to translate this; will try to do so in the future):