‘Your defence is terrified!’: how Freed from Desire became a football, darts and protest anthem
Phil Harrisontheguardian.com
‘Your defence is terrified!’: how Freed from Desire became a football, darts and protest anthem
she crystallized a cultural mood
“A Spaniard’s social agility is superior to their fierce feelings of personal independence.” Giles Tremlett, Ghosts of Spain.
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In Britain there’s a law that says that in an emergency, you can break some rules—you don’t get charged with trespassing, for example, if you break into a burning building to save people. Ben and his legal team argued that this was an emergency: they were trying to prevent the planet from being set on fire. Twelve ordinary British jurors considered
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Techno became the soundtrack of reunification-era Berlin for three main reasons: the pure kinetic energy of the new sounds, the magic of the places it was played and the promise of freedom it contained.
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“The antidote to the alienating spiral of self-optimisation is collective joy, like dancing badly in the dance class,” and later, “I guess, in the end, it all circles back to the same thing as always – commodification. Is there any way to escape this loop?”
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It celebrated human agency and personal autonomy to a rare degree, but also channeled the creative expression of an ostracized underclass.