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...dignity of living beings with regard to plants. Moral consideration of plants for their own sake,” which went on to win the 2008 Ig Nobel Peace prize earlier this month.As expected, the report’s findings range from the silly to the surreal. The committee concludes that individual plants are excluded from “absolute ownership” because “no one may handle plants according to his/her own desires,” and that genetic modification of plants is acceptable only if their reproductive ability is not affected—apparently, neutering...
...only the latest twist in the long, tormented, and increasingly surreal relationship between Italy and France over the treatment of former leftist terrorists. On Oct. 12 the Elysée confirmed Sarkozy had annulled a government decree issued in June to deliver former Red Brigades member Marina Petrella to Italian authorities. Italy has long sought the return of Petrella, 58, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1992. The court found her guilty of participating in 1981 terrorist actions that resulted in the killing of a police officer and the kidnapping of a judge. She absconded...
...reading demographic in different countries varies enormously. In Korea and Japan apparently lots of punks read my books. In Russia they’re popular among both university students and women. In Italy, France, and Sweden the books are categorized as a sort of “surreal noir” and the hipster crowds there buy them. The variety delights me and I often find myself grinning like a child when I hear who likes them.—Interview conducted, condensed and edited by Rebecca A. Schuetz.—Staff writer Rebecca A. Schuetz can be reached...
...It’s a blend of obsession with physical virtuosity,” Hook says of her new work. “Something very frank and at the same time very surreal. It’s partly a reaction to the times, but also a development of my confidence. It’s less a caricature and much more the situation evoked from embracing movement and technique. In some ways, it’s not what’s the trend. Technique and the exploration doesn’t have to have an illustrative result, but it can have...
...America, the idea of modern genocide is a surreal collage—distorted and unreal, comprised primarily of memoirs about the Holocaust or Khmer Rouge, and pieced together and shaded with the green of “Save Darfur” T-shirts. But in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s “Senselessness,” genocide—real genocide—is far from this abstract idea; it’s rooted in gritty details. Moya does not try to understand “genocide,” but rather examines the notion of genocide...