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According to a recent article in The L Magazine, anti-hipster and tourist sentiments seem to be growing in Berlin.
The article suggests an upsurge of abuse has been directed towards tourists and hipsters, who some Berlin-ians blame for gentrification.
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Like boxes in storage, Andrea Scrima’s memories are itinerant. Wherever she resides, nothing seems to be in the right place.“Take my friend Peter, for example, fucking Sloterdijk. I like him a lot, but he’ll obviously have to be sent to the gulag. He’ll be in a slightly better position there. Perhaps he could work as a cook.”
In Der Spiegel, a write-up of the Marxist theorist Slavoj Zizek and The Idea of Communism Conference in Berlin.
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A melting polar bear makes the point pretty clearly.
Some of Berlin’s mighty fine outdoor art installations.
Let’s face it, science is boring.
Laredo Texas has no use for your books.
Letters of Note (my current favorite website) brings us Clyde Barrow’s thank you note to Henry Ford.
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I’m going to say something a reviewer should never say about a series still in development: Berlin is a great book.
We’re only up to book two [Berlin Book Two: City Of Smoke] in a three book series, so I could be shooting myself in the foot later, but right now I can say that Jason Lutes’ work so far is nothing short of amazing.
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Jason Lutes has completed two of the planned three volumes of his graphic novel series, Berlin, which takes place at the end of the Weimar Republic.