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Travels with the Serbian Circus
The circus you read about as a child The one full of laughing, lovable characters, their biggest crime a little ‘untidiness,’ their caravans so colourful, their lives so pleasantly (not threateningly) exciting. The questions you ask yourself Where do they go to the toilet? How does sex work? What if they don’t make any money… Read more
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Rituals and the Performance of Being
A wedding ritual I don’t often get to see the actual ritual of a wedding, in its entirety. One of the rare times that I did, I watched it in a rage, and towards the end I started to feel desperate for escape, almost like I was suffocating. The smoke, the chanting, the oppressive need… Read more
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A Personal and Mutable TimeLine of Ashtanga Yoga’s #Metoo ‘Crisis’
A lot more than a year ago There is a term now for people who practice yoga alone at home. It’s ‘home practitioner.’ Sounds straightforward, if you forget that once upon a time, a large number of people who practiced yoga in India did this, and there wasn’t a term for it at all. It… Read more
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The Hostile State of the Balkans
Rationalizing revisiting The first time you visit a place, you know it by sensory perception – it feels like concrete, smells like grass, tastes like fermented fruit. The second time is like eating the entire fruit, pips and all, the hard skin, the bitter seeds, the juicy bits that disappear so quickly. Then it seems… Read more
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Permission to Work on the Street
Chapter 1: Of Streets, Statues and the Notion of Work What is a human statue? A human statue is an anachronistic presence, an unlawful occupation of time and space. An imitator of a statue or sculpture, a shadow with its own life. The statue is placed before a hat, on a street, and the tinkle… Read more
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