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While You Are Here

Mauricio Flores Carvalho

22 Sep 2026
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The Pile

The Pile

There was a man, and the man had a dream. He dreamt of an edge that was out of reach. Continue reading...

By Mauricio Flores Carvalho 26 Sep 2026
The Unnamed Hands

The Unnamed Hands

This essay starts in a museum and ends in an operating room. It's about what art conservators and transplant teams have in common: the work of caring for something irreplaceable while it's between lives, done by people whose names are never on the wall. Read more

By Mauricio Flores Carvalho 12 Sep 2026
Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott builds worlds of empires, war, rain, smoke and impossible scale. Das Bubo simply asks what happens when you place a dachshund in the middle of them. The result is cinema viewed from eighteen centimeters above the ground, where ambition is still monumental but the snack policy is finally

By Mauricio Flores Carvalho 11 Sep 2026
One Thread of the Same Tuesday

One Thread of the Same Tuesday

The people at home aren't waiting. They're living. The dog gets walked, the plumber finally shows up, and the day gets handed over like a baton. For everyone who works far from their own kitchen. [link]

By Mauricio Flores Carvalho 07 Sep 2026

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