Tag: Research
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The Pythia’s Elusive Name
Sometimes in academia you come across phenomena that make you disbelieve your own judgement. This essay is about one of these instances, upon which I stumbled quite a while ago but did not have the time and energy to look into more deeply. But then, when I finally decided to take the matter seriously, I…
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On Air-Pumps and Truth
It is one of the hardest tasks for historians of any period or field to “think away” what appears to be self-evident. Yet it is also this ability which differentiates very good scholarly work from the mere expression of personal opinion on the one hand and the simple reproduction of given facts and figures on…
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Visiting Kusama
Can you imagine a world dominated by dots? And I mean, dominated. So much so that these dots become the focal point of your whole existence. So much so that they become the very essence of your being. You can’t? Neither can I. But this seems to be the experience of Yayoi Kusama, one of…