Issue 7: Cosmopolitans vs. Coronavirus
The closing of the cosmopolitan mind, a media monopoly, Walter Pater, and more.
Beautiful fact
In the 16th and 17th centuries in Friuli, there existed a group of people who were said to be able to travel out of their bodies while they slept and who, on these nocturnal journeys, would fight against malevolent witches, malandanti, servants of the devil. These benandanti, or “good walkers,” formed an invisible army that strove together…
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