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Migrant habitats

Migrants move, leaving behind their familiar habitat and facing the task of finding a new one. For migrants, a new home can be a place of precarious safety, a habitat fraught with insecurity. This is what Alberto Gandolfo gives photographic form to in “Habitat”.   Sean Sheehan   Between 1900 […]

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I am here… Do you see me?

A unique experiment during the Covid crisis challenged the uncaring view of people in a situation of homelessness as scroungers and showed what can be done when people come together in a situation of trust, where their individual stories are respected. Wealthy countries have the means to solve social problems but are reluctant to fund projects that work.

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The cadence of wisdom

There can be a cadence to a sentence, dialogue or prose, a measure of its sense and sound. This is from an academic essay in a book called “New Materialisms”:   Sean Sheehan   “Death is overrated. The ultimate subtraction is after all only another phase in a generative process. […]