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Abdel Kader Haïdara, a librarian who smuggled hundreds of thousands of manuscripts from jihadist-occupied Timbuktu to safety in Bamako, stands with ancient volumes from Timbuktu packed into metal trunks. Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images.

SHARING INSTINCT: AN ANNOTATION OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT THROUGH SHADOW LIBRARIES – Sean Dockray & Lawrence Liang

Published on August 14, 2015 on e-flux Foederis aequas Dicamus leges (Let us make fair terms for the compact.) —Virgil’s Aeneid, XI Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.1 June 30, 2015 Dear Sean, I have been …

Workers supervise an embroidery unit at a textile mill in Dharavi, Mumbai.

IT TAKES SO MUCH FOR A CITY TO HAPPEN – Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty

Published on 7 August, 2015 on e-flux Cities are formally complex, experientially intense, and have logics that are incoherent. They fold spaces, practices, and relationships together to create an enormous, perpetually transforming morph. This morph is characterized by unclear geographies, …

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THE IDLE MONOLOGUE OF AN UNCONVINCED SURVEYOR- Sarnath Banerjee

Published on 27 June, 2015 on e-flux “It seems that nature has at man’s birth fixed the bounds of his virtues and vices.” —François de La Rochefoucauld The Idle Monologue of an Unconvinced Surveyor

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IS THE WORLD SLEEPING, SLEEPLESS, OR AWAKE OR DREAMING? – Raqs Media Collective

Published in e-flux, June 2014 “A hundred years after 1914 saw nationalism explode in an orgy of violence like the world had never seen before, we are waking up to a new reality that appears to be as repetitive as …

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