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Trent Portigal

Grave Contamination in Second-Empire Paris

Baron Haussmann’s cemetery dilemma.

8 min readJun 16, 2021

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Grave Contamination in Second-Empire Paris

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Advanced Abstention. Democracy, Anarchism and Anti-Vote Candidates

By Trent Portigal

12 min readOct 27, 2020

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Advanced Abstention. Democracy, Anarchism and Anti-Vote Candidates

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Trent Portigal

A City of One’s Own

Poverty, writing and urban connections in 1920s Moscow

10 min readAug 2, 2020

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A City of One’s Own

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Trent Portigal

Penciled in Moscow

One of the most popular pencils versus pens stories is the Space Race tale claiming that, when Americans and Russians realized the lack of…

10 min readJun 22, 2020

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Penciled in Moscow

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Trent Portigal

Slipping Toward Nothingness

While vodka was usually a behind-the-scenes collaborator, it did make an appearance, playing itself, in the story…

13 min readMay 14, 2020

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Slipping Toward Nothingness

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Trent Portigal

The Murder and Mythology of Bruno Schulz

Asked who he was, my response has been: a Polish-Jewish writer and visual artist killed in his hometown’s ghetto during World War II…

8 min readDec 18, 2019

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The Murder and Mythology of Bruno Schulz

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Trent Portigal

The Women Behind The Parrot

“For a mad musician, there is a composer named Alkan. Not mad, but really in the end…author of the symphony for a parrot.”

8 min readJul 13, 2019

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The Women Behind The Parrot

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Trent Portigal

Art, Prophecy and Utopian Dreams

John Berger argues that prophecy in art is “not indulging in idle fancy but responding intuitively to a concrete situation.”

10 min readJun 20, 2019

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Art, Prophecy and Utopian Dreams

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Trent Portigal

Literature of the Solitary Kings

In the 1930s, Raymond Queneau wrote a study on the forgotten works of the Nineteenth Century literary mad…

7 min readMay 21, 2019

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Literature of the Solitary Kings

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Trent Portigal

Rehumanizing Cannibalism

Michel de Montaigne began his essay on cannibalism with an appeal to readers to to approach the subject with reason…

7 min readMay 12, 2019

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Rehumanizing Cannibalism

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Trent Portigal

Trent Portigal

Writer of eclectic curiosities. Novels: Our New Neolithic Age (‘21), Simulated Hysteria (‘20), Death Train of Provincetown (‘19), The Amoeba-Ox Continuum (‘17).

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