Time as Narcotic, History as Dank Meme

A Review Essay on the Exhibit Devade: Prague’s Architecture Amidst Austerity and Disco Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning, Prague29 January – 17 May 2026 For all its contributions and provocations, the exhibit Devade: Prague’s Architecture Amidst Austerity and Disco might appear most interesting at the moment when the visitor leaves it. Not, of course,…

Queer Boulevards, Inflatable Unicorns: A Report from Budapest Pride 2025 – Part 2

The Danube Ever larger, the crowd continues toward the next intersection: Astoria, from the 1914-vintage hotel at the corner, evoking its atmosphere of luxury through the name of the then-legendary American oligarch and beaver-slaughterer. Here is the first change: the next section of the Inner Boulevard is blocked; we will now be turning right to…

Queer Boulevards, Inflatable Unicorns: A Report from Budapest Pride 2025

The Start. 14:00, in the tunnels of the Budapest metro system at Deák Ferenc tér, the central intersection of three lines. A few first sightings of rainbow garb or décor among the crowd, passing around the ticket inspectors with their rather disturbingly fascistic-looking armbands.   Up at street level. The square has far less of…