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  • 9–13 minutes

    This Land is Your Land

    Authoritarian politics begins with the body. The diseased body. The covered body. The reproductive body. The foreign body. The body crossing a border. The body that refuses to remain in its assigned place. In The Mass Psychology of Fascism, published in 1933, Wilhelm Reich rejected the…

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  • 5–8 minutes

    I Love You, Filip Chajzer

    Disclaimer: This is an act of desperation. I do not usually do this, and I hope never to have to again. The problem is that by posting on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram in English, the designated reader will probably not read it. His English appears to…

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  • 5–8 minutes

    Small Boats

    Three women, reportedly aged about twenty, thirty and fifty, were found unresponsive on a boat near Dunkirk. In a separate incident farther south, a man died after a dinghy capsized. Others, including a small child, were rescued. The British government says every death in the…

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  • 8–13 minutes

    Dogs Eat Dogs

    Hot, slightly anxious, almost completely without money. Money borrowed from people who earn theirs through public relations, stock exchanges in Switzerland and London, corporations, investments and defence contracts. Money produced somewhere inside the vast machinery of finance and war, then passed down to me in…

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  • 1–2 minutes

    Do Birds Own Passports?

    Perhaps there are kingdoms in the sky and empires beneath our feet whose borders are drawn in currents of air, scents, magnetic fields or memories beyond our comprehension. We assume that because we cannot decipher the politics of ants they have no history, yet ant…

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  • 15–22 minutes

    Sussex Tales

    WIND The Walker hears the wind before she sees the sea. Somewhere beyond the last hedgerow, beyond the Downs and the sheep on the hillsides, it is already there, carrying salt, seaweed and something else impossible to identify. The same south-westerly winds that sting walkers’…

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