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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    5:59 am Mon, Jan 20, 2020
    Passport and Nobels

    My life-long work of performance art is to somehow maintain my original passport: notwithstanding the life and opportunities of a techno-nomad.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    10:44 am Fri, Sep 6, 2019
    Marina Abramovic in Belgrade

    I have always liked Marina Abramovic, from her earliest works to the latest ones.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    3:29 am Thu, Nov 8, 2018
    Scenes from the Bangalore Literature Festival

    I still have Indian dust on my shoes from the city of Bangalore, where I spent almost a week at the international literary festival. I was mind-boggled at the scale… Read the rest of the article: Scenes from the Bangalore Literature Festival

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    9:46 am Thu, Apr 19, 2018
    Post-internet lament

    The world hasn't yet invented the right word for my deep new disenchantment with the Post-Internet. It has elements of a broken romance, a burn-out, a nervous breakdown, depression and physical anxiety. It's a state of exile from a cyberspace where things became unfriendly, where words harm rather than help. A frontier that defined itself as futurity becomes a dead shopping mall behind rags and barbed-wire.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    11:17 am Thu, Mar 22, 2018
    The Rich and the Normal

    A few weeks ago, the Italian people finally broke the political framework that dates to the end of World War II. The M5S Five Stars Movement, a party without a heritage, won the most popular votes. The M5S has been on a wave of growth since winning mayoral control of some Italian cities.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    4:13 pm Fri, Dec 29, 2017
    #Metoo: from the Balkans to Twitter

    A friend asked me to follow the flow, and write this hashtag #metoo. Cavafi, the Greek poet who lived all his life by the sea and wrote about everything but… Read the rest of the article: #Metoo: from the Balkans to Twitter

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    9:48 am Thu, Nov 23, 2017
    Mladic the genocide: a moment of silence for the Balkans' lost lives, honor and credibility

    Charles Manson, world-famous cult leader and serial killer, died this week in a prison in California, after a life sentence. Ratko Mladic, Balkan war criminal, just received a life sentence in The Hague yesterday.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    11:17 am Wed, Sep 27, 2017
    Less than Human, More than Human

    Mary Shelley had four children and buried three as infants. Her last son Percy survived her and died of old age. But Frankenstein, her ultimate creation, has lived on. Her literary science fictional monster child became a myth, an aspiration, an ambition and even somewhat a reality in the past 200 years.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    11:20 am Wed, Mar 29, 2017
    On "Eastern European Women"

    "A Serb makes a good wife: she can pull the cart out of mud." That old Serbian proverb, its genius author has no name. It's like the earthy quip from… Read the rest of the article: On "Eastern European Women"

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    11:58 am Wed, Feb 22, 2017
    Milosevic, Berlusconi, Trump

    I saw this coming, for the past ten years or more. I saw small Trumps, rising and tramping around, first timidly, then bravely, and finally boldly.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    9:43 am Mon, Oct 17, 2016
    Refugees, Women in Black and the Serbian police

    "You can't tell who is craziest: the refugees, the police or those women," said a local shopkeeper. He made a cross over his chest, to express his sincere Serbian bewilderment.… Read the rest of the article: Refugees, Women in Black and the Serbian police

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    2:01 pm Fri, Jul 1, 2016
    Brexit, by a Serbian "fake Briton"

    I am a fake Briton: in elementary and high school, for twelve years of my education, I attended offshored British schools.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    9:34 am Mon, Feb 8, 2016
    Apple Bye Bye

    I was clumsy, and I spilled some beer on the keyboard of my Mac Air laptop, bought July 9, 2014. I immediately started drying my precious computer, overturning it, and… Read the rest of the article: Apple Bye Bye

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    12:09 pm Wed, Dec 16, 2015
    Ada Lovelace: what would go into an Internet of Women's Things?

    Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, is no longer who she once was, 200 years ago. Time changes all famous people, especially cult personalities. Ada has become a modern icon for the digitizing world of science and literature.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    7:12 am Wed, Sep 9, 2015
    My Stolen Life

    My handbag was stolen two months ago. It happened in seconds in a mall in Turin, Italy. I never saw the thief, and neither did my husband, sitting two meters… Read the rest of the article: My Stolen Life

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    10:39 am Sat, Aug 22, 2015
    We are all refugees: A Serbian on Syria

    Once I was a refugee, too. During the fall of former Yugoslavia, I visited many refugees camps all over the war-torn region. I edited a book of refugee stories.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    5:03 am Wed, May 6, 2015
    May Day in Italy

    The people who hit the streets in Italy's major streets on the first of May wanted to celebrate the day of labor. They also wanted to express their worries about… Read the rest of the article: May Day in Italy

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    6:36 am Sun, Jun 29, 2014
    World War One: on the peculiar geopolitics of passionate, armed teenagers

    On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated in Sarajevo the Austrian Archiduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (heir to the throne) and his wife Sofia. This act allegedly triggered the World… Read the rest of the article: World War One: on the peculiar geopolitics of passionate, armed teenagers

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    11:02 am Thu, Jun 12, 2014
    We visited Ukraine's Palace of Corruption

    Jasmina Tesanovic ventures into the "Palace of Corruption" where deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych partied and gloried in graft while the #Euromaidan raged on his doorstep. Tesanovic was in Serbia when Milosevic was deposed, and she reflects on the careers of post-Soviet dictators.

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  • Jasmina Tesanovic
    8:34 am Mon, May 26, 2014
    Sorrow in the Balkans

    Jasmina Tesanovic on the recent floods drowning the Balkan region, in which, it seems the sorrow never stops.

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