Welcome to the first of openDemocracy's new weekly poDcasts. Hear our writers and contributors expand on their articles with topical debate on current affairs, science, technology, arts and
Panku Kaitian Pidi (Panku Creating the World), from the manuscript Tui Bei Quan Tu, 1820, copied by Wu-Yi Chao Xie, c. 1900. Panku Creates the World According to Chinese mythology,
Lost cloud, André Kertész, 1937
Sonja, Christian Schad, 1928
Self-Portrait before an Advertisement Pillar, Georg Scholz, 1926
Gray Day, George Grosz, 1921 All images from the exhibition Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s
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"Three Generations"
by Yom Sang-seop (translated by Yu Young-nan)
Archipelago Books | December 2006 | ISBN 097785762X
Extract from Three Generations
Standing on the stone
Please don't squeeze the bread. Image from Niki Akhavan's photo-essay of signs from Iran. For more images, go to "Sign of the odd times"
Parosh's fifth birthday. Still from Ed Kashi's flip book style photo and music project on Iraqi Kurdistan.
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"Cuba: A New History"
by Richard Gott
Yale | October 2005 | ISBN 0300111142
Prologue
I first travelled to Cuba in October 1963, at a
Storyboard by Goran Ruinović of the film Border Post (Karaula) directed by Rajko Grlić, 2005. Based on Ante Tomic's novel "Nothing Can Suprise Us", Border
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It was the morning after election-day, and New Yorkers awoke to a sun-filled sky. Lilacs bloomed on Broadway, children, freshly-scrubbed, arrived at school on time, fear was banished from the
Peralta Stone Maps artist and date unknownTreasure maps discovered in Arizona near the Superstition Mountains, from Katharine Harmon's book "You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps
