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Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.

The lords of time

THOMAS MORE'S UTOPIA 1516 was recently claimed as the most influential fiction in history, that it had worked its...

By David Sornig

Bogans run

I AM FINDING a way to share an offhand observation made in a chat where I saw shared recognition...

By Janine Little

Two quarrels

PLATO TELLS THIS story.[i] Set in 433 BCE, it has as its backdrop an Athenian city-state at the peak...

By Mark Chou

The forced estate

But you must agree that you could confuse even God himself with such questions: where I stepped, how I stepped,...

By Nick Marland

Places for feeling

HOW IS IT that sensory experiences hold a unique power to plunge us so immediately into the reservoirs of...

By Ella Mudie

Global migration

WHEN CONSIDERING INTERNATIONAL immigration, most governments are predominately preoccupied by one overriding issue: 'illegal' migrants. The rule of law...

By Sergio Marchi

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