Category: General
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a summer job bagging cadavers
It’s hard not to feel an opportunity was missed by not making Frankie Boyle the new leader of the Labour party instead of the equivocal sub-Blair suit who just got the gig. … you have to wonder if the virus is so very different from extractive capitalism. It commandeers the manufacturing elements of its hosts,…
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navel / abyss
[Content warning: contains vaguely Ballardian solipsism, and privileged angst.] Atemporality has taken on a much more intimate and personal feel under the circumstances. In addition to the already well-established (but still accelerating) contextual time-soup, I’m finding that my own sense of time at the level of days and hours is starting to slip and slide.…
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relocation milestones
The arrival of one’s first mail-order second-hand book in a new place is a milestone, right? Feels like one to me… so perhaps I’m not adjusting to this whole voluntary quarantine thing as well as I thought.
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bring your own metaphor
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freightlands
Doesn’t take me long to seek out the local postindustrial… though in fairness, much of Malmö qualifies as such.