Anatomy of a Broken World
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I have reached the end of an unplanned road: gathering articles, translations, and interviews written over the course of nine years since my retirement.
I had no intention of creating an archive, but the breakdown of a laptop coincided with the disappearance of the Rețeaua Literară (Literary Network)-a website with thousands of members where I used to post almost all the materials I deemed of some interest. Naively, I believed that a text published on the internet would remain accessible indefinitely, defying physical libraries that sometimes burn or flood, destroying books. Since the web is indestructible, my aim was to leave these articles on art and culture in the basements of the information age.
However, information is eroded by a lack of maintenance and by entropy. My photographs, once clear and bright, darken over time-the information degrades. The need for storage space, data compression, copying, recopying, cyberattacks, data theft, hackers who take pleasure in destroying and corrupting media... This is how many of the works written with toil and honesty for the coherence of their message have been irreversibly lost.
I don't deeply regret it; above all, I am reassured by the fate of many forgotten masterpieces gathering dust in the basement of some museum or institution. During my first years in Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Caesarea-a former Roman port, citadel, and major commercial city. It is filled with relics from the years 20-10 BC, when the city was built by Herod upon the ruins of a Phoenician fishing village. As chance would have it, while rummaging through the ruins, I found a fragment of an amphora-about 10x7 cm. marked with a letter that resembled a roman "X." Excited, I called the archaeology department of the Eretz Israel Museum, where I knew a worker in the antiquities section.
The answer came immediately: "We don't need your shard; we have boxes here with thousands of such fragments. It's of no interest."
Cultures come and go. What matters is the present, and especially what we do with it-how we use it.
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I had no intention of creating an archive, but the breakdown of a laptop coincided with the disappearance of the Rețeaua Literară (Literary Network)-a website with thousands of members where I used to post almost all the materials I deemed of some interest. Naively, I believed that a text published on the internet would remain accessible indefinitely, defying physical libraries that sometimes burn or flood, destroying books. Since the web is indestructible, my aim was to leave these articles on art and culture in the basements of the information age.
However, information is eroded by a lack of maintenance and by entropy. My photographs, once clear and bright, darken over time-the information degrades. The need for storage space, data compression, copying, recopying, cyberattacks, data theft, hackers who take pleasure in destroying and corrupting media... This is how many of the works written with toil and honesty for the coherence of their message have been irreversibly lost.
I don't deeply regret it; above all, I am reassured by the fate of many forgotten masterpieces gathering dust in the basement of some museum or institution. During my first years in Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Caesarea-a former Roman port, citadel, and major commercial city. It is filled with relics from the years 20-10 BC, when the city was built by Herod upon the ruins of a Phoenician fishing village. As chance would have it, while rummaging through the ruins, I found a fragment of an amphora-about 10x7 cm. marked with a letter that resembled a roman "X." Excited, I called the archaeology department of the Eretz Israel Museum, where I knew a worker in the antiquities section.
The answer came immediately: "We don't need your shard; we have boxes here with thousands of such fragments. It's of no interest."
Cultures come and go. What matters is the present, and especially what we do with it-how we use it.
Enjoy your reading
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B0HFFP9Q1M
ISBN13:9798192641163
Release Date:August 2026
Publisher:Independently published
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.63 lbs.
Dimensions:9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"
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