‘A Jerusalem for everyone’: was the 2012 Olympics the last gasp of liberal Britain?
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‘A Jerusalem for everyone’: was the 2012 Olympics the last gasp of liberal Britain?
A story about the dawn of democracy, the legal suppression of grief, and why politics without art is death
Eleanor Robinseleanorrobins.substack.com
for art to serve social imagination, it has to be organised in ways that allow time for it to be absorbed and adapted, so that it becomes an act of co-creation rather than just an act of consumption or an enjoyable way to pass the evening.15 If it is only an object for the passing gaze, then it is, perhaps, bound to fail. Experiences that are
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