ras have their surfaces,” writes the German historian Karl Schlögel. “They can be smooth or rough. They can vanish or dissolve. They can be felt. What wrapping paper was and what it meant is something one only begins to understand now that it has disappeared … in the flood of plastic bags.”
History is not just stories of battles and coups, but how people feel about life
Feb 10, 2023
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