From The Archive of Feelings, which was published this month by Other Press. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.

It’s a source of joy every time, to find the right place for an event. A natural disaster, a celebrity divorce, a new public building, a plane crash, the current state of the weather, of anything, there is really nothing that doesn’t have a place in the system, or for which a place couldn’t be found. And when something is fitted into the hierarchy of subjects, it becomes understandable and governable. If everything is equal, the way it is…