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← Back to all issuesGranta 146: The Politics of Feeling
Winter 2019
‘If extreme feelings are a contagion within the political cultures of today, so too is the spread of a kind of affectlessness, as if we’re starting to resemble the very technologies that threaten to replace us.’
Guest-edited by Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi
Cover design by Daniela Silva
From this Issue
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Lazy Boy
Josh Cohen
‘I don’t see him staring back at me from the La-Z-Boy, I see me, I see a crystalline image of my own burned-out soul’
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The Politics of Feeling
Nick Laird
‘Everything already is fraying at the edges if not completely gone.’
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The Guests
Hisham Matar
‘Strangely, it was Joseph Conrad who introduced me to Edward Said and not the other way around.’
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Picking Up Nathan from the Airport
Benjamin Markovits
‘When shit like this happens, people don’t walk out on fifteen-year marriages.’
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#TeamBaddiel vs #TeamBabel
David Baddiel
‘Social media has allowed everyone in the world to raise their own little flag of self’
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The Tension of Transience
Chloe Aridjis
‘How unusual that April night had been, yet how normal it had seemed at the time’
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How I Became an SJW
Anouchka Grose
‘I had become a pacifist in the time it took to run between the bedroom and the bathroom of a London flat.’
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American Orchard
Diana Matar & Max Houghton
‘This unsettling imagery points to a dereliction of civic duty.’ Max Houghton introduces photographs by Diana Matar.
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Populism and Humour
William Davies
‘As reality has grown more absurd, the job of satirists has grown harder.’
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Harmflesh
Margie Orford
‘This burning girl that I am with skin stretched white hot across unfair flesh. Harmflesh.’
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Normalnost
Peter Pomerantsev
‘Is there another way to look at the Russianisation of reality?’
