Captive of the Caucasus: The Long War Over Nagorno-Karabakh: “In his 1973 essay, “Approaches to What?,” the French novelist Georges Perec made reference to the “infra-ordinary,” by which he meant the banal routines of the everyday. He suggested we reorient our gaze from the exotic to what he called the “endotic”; turn away from headlines and embrace the granular beauty of the ordinary. “Question your teaspoons,” he urged. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/armenia-war-nagorno-karabakh/

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