Alex Cocotas
Writer at Freelance
I write and edit. My work has appeared in @awl, @newinquiry, @jacobinmag, @parisreview, @lareviewofbooks, and @qz, among others. acocotas [at] gmail [dot] com
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Jan 6, 2025 |
thebaffler.com | Alex Cocotas |Quinn Slobodian |Zachariah Webb
Have you heard that Berlin is dead? I hear it often. I’ve even heard myself say it. “Berlin’s dead!” I announce to my sub as we both sadly snort lines of ketamine off my sub’s sub, who we occasionally use as a piece of furniture—an armoire, a Biedermeier settee—because this is Berlin. Our pupils are like convex pennies. It is a Tuesday afternoon. It is a phrase, alas, that I am wont to use. At Berghain for the twenty-fourth weekend in a row: this is Berlin.
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A play I co-wrote, Die Hölle ist leer (Hell is empty), is having its premiere in Berlin this weekend. A surreal, outrageous critique of German memory culture, you won’t want to miss it. March 22-25, in German with English translation. Tickets here: https://t.co/5MLm5uPVV7
RT @thebafflermag: Berlin’s future as a freak-flag-waving cultural powerhouse is under threat. For that, you can thank rising rents, budge…
For the excellent new issue of @thebafflermag I wrote about hackneyed depictions of Berlin in recent literature, the contemporary suppression of speech around Palestine, and how both are situated in Berlin’s lengthy normalization as a German city https://t.co/9iU3yALL1l
