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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.

clothing is a language

Fashions fade away like epidemics once they have ravaged the imagination.  – Jean Baudrillard  day after day we change  into clothes  we change...

By Pascalle Burton

LIFE

And Hyperion’s edict went forth thus: take the ground pig, sleeve it in its guts, build a blaze on the beach...

By Liam Ferney

You will be seen now

I saw a fin- ger loosen the zipper,the bag’s tan exterior animated by teeth.  Beneath knuckle-white shades, faces surfaced–witnesses in a waiting room.  Pareidolia...

By Isabella G Mead

Bellend

‘Nice little bell, buddy,’ snipes some guy holding  space in the bike lane as I nearly swipe him  on my way...

By Toby Fitch

hearth 

yes, one day, finally, it will all fall away  like all dead things  we will sit again by the campfire  story illuminating...

By Cheryl Leavy

Pyjama Man

Though he lives in a rundown unit above a busy intersection, the pyjama man imagines that the sounds of the traffic are the...

By Damian Balassone

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