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A Beach at the End of the World
A Beach at the End of the World
The Unabashed Emotion of “Sun & Sea (Marina)”
Reading / culture
This year’s Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner came from the Lithuanian pavilion. The piece in question – an opera-performance on an artificial beach – encapsulates all the empathy and emotion that each of us might feel towards a world on its way to disaster.
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Baltic Grey Seal, Lithuania, 2016
Reading / literature
A poem by Scottish poet Gordon Meade from his Zoospeak series, which attempts to give voice to animals living in captivity.
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Wojciech
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Mann
Meditations of a Lazybones
Reading / feuilleton
A lazybones presents his political manifesto for... laziness.
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A Cold
A Cold
On Lem, Philip K. Dick and the FBI
Reading / literature
In an extract from his book “Out of this World: The Life of Stanisław Lem”, Wojciech Orliński describes a sensational yet often misunderstood encounter between Stanisław Lem and Philip K. Dick, in which the latter denounced the former as a thief.
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The Mechanical Drummer
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“And there she stands again, petite, at the blackboard.” A poem by a contemporary Polish poet.
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The Internets
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The internet, despite being widely available, as a virtual entity remains elusive. Its visualisation (what we know as the internet) is a collection of blue images, implicating digital modernity. Underneath those notions, however, hide addresses of companies that provide services and management of the internet.
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glove
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“a woman in a red jacket / picked up a glove from the snow…” A poem by a contemporary Polish writer.
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always
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“twenty-five years later, I spit blood into the tub...” Marcin Orliński presents a piece by a Polish poet.
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In Praise of Nudity
In Praise of Nudity
The Nudist Beaches of Central and Eastern Europe
Reading / society
Poland may be a Catholic country, but it has its fair share of nudists. You might find them at the infamous beach at Chałupy, or even further afield in Bulgaria, whose Black Sea resorts have long attracted regional naturists.
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Jellyfish
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An anecdote about rescuing washed-up jellyfish can teach us a broader lesson about how we might treat the environment we live in.
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Eternal Summer
Media / Photo
Fokas boldly strips his model-friends down in front of the lens; yet, their poses are far from sexualized. A physical and spatial tension unfolds, as playful and surreal corporeal formations engage in a choreographic interplay of attraction, seduction, detachment, and resistance. Flirting with autonomy and vulnerability, his subjects are often witnessed as being in distress.
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Mr Barker, Oedipuss and Us (audio)
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We have more in common with cats and dogs than some people think – especially when it comes to cheekily deceiving each other. Original text by Ludwika Włodek. Read by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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The Oak Chronicles (audio)
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An encounter with an ancient oak tree named Bartek, as experienced and retold by a biologist and poet. Original text by Urszula Zajączkowska. Read by Sean Palmer.
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Life in a Sealed Jar. A Brief History of Terrariums (audio)
Media / Audio
Closed terrariums are currently in vogue for urban gardeners, but their history runs all the way back to 19th-century botany. Original text by Joanna Dobkowska. Read by Konstancja Dangel.
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An Introduction to Anna Świrszczyńska’s Warsaw Uprising Poems
Reading / culture
Anna Świrszczyńska’s poetry undertakes a feminine revision of one of the most tragic events in Polish history, remaining timeless to this day.
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Three Poems on the Warsaw Uprising
Reading / literature
“I’ll hide in the wall, I’ll go into the wall / like a centipede. / Everyone will die, and I / will survive.” Three poems by Anna Świrszczyńska (Anna Swir) from her 1974 collection “Building the Barricade”.
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August in History
August in History
Diary of an Eternal Pessimist
Reading / society
Our eternally pessimistic correspondent gives his historical highlights for the month of August.
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How Do We Know Whether We Are Progressing Spiritually? (audio)
Media / Audio
“The power of egoism is so strong, that we constantly forget who we truly are: pure being and consciousness.” Original text by Marshall Govindan Satchidananda. Read by Konstancja Dangel.
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Too Much Love (audio)
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A young man’s corpse is found at an eighteenth birthday party. Is it a drug-related death, a suicide, or perhaps even a murder? A short story set in Warsaw. Read by Daniel Sax.
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The Art of Heedless Travel