01Gay life · Society · Technology
Before Grindr, Your Profile Was the Way You Turned Your Head.
Before photos, filters and “how close?”, the body sent the message. Grindr did not invent proximity. It put it on a server.
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02Music · Politics · Society · Party
Communism Washed Folklore Clean. Weddings Got It Dirty Again.
Between Song to Romania, Electrecord, the “de-pollution” campaign and the tape recorded at a wedding, the state tried to manufacture folklore without sweat. The audience asked for an encore.
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03Gay life · Politics · Technology · Society
Two maps of the same toilet: one for desire, one for the police.
In 1937, a satirical guide and a secret state map described the same London toilets. One helped men find each other. The other helped the police catch them.
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04Sitges, gay paradise. Now who is looking after those who stayed?
They came for the beach, freedom and nights requiring no explanation. They stayed and grew older. Now paradise must learn something harder than seduction: care.
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05Romanian folklore has a credit problem: the lăutari built it, the state signed it.
Five centuries of enslavement, four instruments with foreign passports, a state orchestra and one indecently simple question: who gets credit for the national sound?
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06The Balkans Are Not in 7/8. The West Is Simply Obsessed with Counting Them.
Uneven rhythms are real. The myth that they alone explain Balkan music is just exotic arithmetic, beautifully packaged for export.
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07Who stole whose music? Probably everyone from everyone.
From Banat’s lăutari to Azur cassettes and ethno techno: how Balkan music crossed borders, regimes and labels without asking permission.
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On careers built from several identities, skills and curiosities — without reducing yourself to a single label.
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Artificial intelligence is already culture.
Beyond tools and promises: how technology is changing our work, taste and relationships.
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A personal map of places, nights and communities that give us permission to become more.
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