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When We Cease to Understand the World
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When We Cease to Understand the World

Thoughts on Benjamin Labatut's Metamodern History

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Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Jun 11, 2024
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We shall not cease from exploration,

and the end of all our exploring

will be to arrive where we started

and know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

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The other week, I was sitting in the emergency room for multiple hours—not to fear, everyone’s okay—trying to read through Benjamin Labatut’s experimental novel about genius scientists and mathematicia…

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