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… And the Street Goes on

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Népszínház utca is a street that begs to be the subject of study. Its name, People’s Theatre Street, produces expectations that are fully met. Its surroundings are a mix of shops, pubs, hotels, homeless shelters, churches, trams, a building site and a market; it is a heavily utilized public space with a character, color and attitude that animates the area. It cuts right through Budapest’s VIII district, Józsefváros, a part of town that is as notorious as it is diverse.

Read more of this article I wrote for dérive N° 54 (Jän – Mär / 2014)  by clicking Cook_2014_And the Street Goes On

 

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Slow. the. fuck. down.

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Do you remember what an ordinary day in your life looked like last autumn? Back when Corona was just a below average beer and social distancing described what happened to your attention when an academic at a party started talking about their favourite theorist?

Depending on where you lived, it was probably relatively smooth. Of course, there were many things which probably did not work as well as you would’ve liked them to. Personally, I struggled between many uncertainties: my university leaving the country I live in, the program I direct being de facto suspended for a second time for political reasons, ongoing Brexit unknowns, and the cruel promise that Liverpool might finally win the league this year. All this in Hungary, a state in which services are crumbling and bureaucracy was invented to make people cry. And yet, certainly compared to those of you who have lived or are living through state collapse, things sort of worked.

Read more of this angry article at Allegra Lab