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to disarticulate the models of thought and hierarchies derived from Western modernity

texts or spaces swamped today

romantic language of floriography

and the magic that can be found in everyday life” - Katherine May“The delight of ní Dochartaigh’s writing is her capacity to measure compassion against observation

MacGuffin - The Life of Things - N° 14 - The Wall John Burnside 319 illustrationsFrom the Apartheid wall in Palestine to the digital paywall, from memorial murals in Jamaica to the increasingly tall glass facades of modern office blocks, walls testify to the tumult of history and humanitys ceaseless urge to communicate and to sow division. They force us to reflect on the paradoxes of openness and isolation, of enclosure and exclusion. In a world drowning in borders, barriers and barbed wire fences, this issue of MacGuffin pauses