“Moun fèt pou mouri,” as the Haitian saying goes, People are born to die. But for generation upon generation the Oloffson died to be reborn.
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After the Dance • EQUATOR
When the Hotel Oloffson burned to the ground, a dream of another Haiti died
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From the Editors
The most influential journals are rarely the products of tranquil times. Their significance is often measured by their ability to confront historical rupture, rather than the length of their run. In 1944, as the violence of world wor scaled toward atomic annihilation, Dwight Macdonald founded his radical journal, Politics, to survey the wreck age. A year later, Les Temps Modernes rose from the ruins of occupied France to forge the twin languages of existentialism and anticolonialism.
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Equator was not founded to issue political blue-prints, but to be a home for this reclamation of the future to begin. In these early days of an era whose outcome no one can predict, we want to capsize dogmes and tell new stories. Our aim is to cultivate a fresh canon of think-ers who can reveal the world in unfamiliar ways, yield-ing vocabularies capable of comprehending new political horizons and to advocate a renewed cosmopolitanism. In a globalised world, cosmopolitanism has been degraded by association with Davos elites and obscene wealth. The cosmopolitanism we pursue is different. We do not want, in Aimé Césaire's phrase, to become lost in a disembodied universalism, but to embrace instead what he called "a universal rich with all that is particular". Our ambition is to make Equator a living experiment in this philosophy: one that does not flatten differences into a bland global citizenship, but seeks instead the shock of recognition that comes when people separated by geography encounter one another's entangled histories and experiences and find, unexpectedly, that they recog-nise themselves.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dznocaybitnm7bcttrw4z3kv/bafkreiaa3w676u4fsy4qscwrsp7trpdcas4vjpmmqwgytdycvkfzxf3f4e)
