Already some time ago I found online an example of the 2013 ballot paper to be used during the parliamentary elections of June 23. It was a model issued by the KQZ (Central Election Committee), which currently consists of 4 majority party members and 3 vacant seats with no solution in sight. I think [...]
The last few days, finally on a short holiday in Istria (and my dear are these Croatians afraid to enter the EU on July 1!), I’ve been trying to think what to write about, or at least, where to start on reporting about the current Albanian pre-election situation. A small recap: about two weeks [...]
To join a climbing gym has definitely been one of the better decisions I took so far this year. Not only is my fear of heights drastically decreasing (at least up to 5 meters), it also teaches me to trust my body, which for an anti-physically oriented person like me can be quite exhilarating. [...]
The distinction between the representative, parliamentary democracies of capitalism, and vanguardists should be carefully marked (as Marcos does, in his way during his exchange with ETA). The Subcommandante shits on the vanguardists, whereas one of the designations of the representative, parliamentary system (and its attendees) is that this system is “full of shit”, as are [...]
Your own, personal, antichrist. To stand outside of the human condition forwards the imperative of ordo as to obtain confusio “In radical fashion, he sweeps away the traditional image: this image, he insists, must be understood allegorically, not in some literal historical way. What the ‘antichrist’ means is grasped philologically everyone who is Christo [...]
About those elections…I already suggested earlier that PD-candidate Basha had won the elections, celebrated by a slaughtered ram and “gëzuar ramazanin“-banners all over the city, but now the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Report has been published, we enter yet another round of discussions on the validity of the results, which, whether for good or for bad, [...]
While drinking a caipirosca (don’t ask me what’s in it) in one of the many bars of Tirana, taking a rest from a day of teaching and haphazardly trying to finish my dissertation, I heard one of these stories that immediately pushed the “hmm interesting metaphor” button in my head. This was the story, [...]