The Starting Point
Anna BrantenExploring how we live, work and relate in times of transition - where the personal meets the systemic and the visible meets the felt. Writing from the in-between, where the things I’m not supposed to say often become the most honest.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 49 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 17 days ago |
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Field note #1: Silencing
It is all over the news. Millions of books are collected, cut up, scanned and destroyed. It is difficult to imagine a better Bond or Marvel villain than this.
Given the document that has been leaked - can you imagine the conversations taki...
If capitalism were my husband, everyone would tell me to leave
Gordon Gecko i “Wall Street”. Photo by 20th Centrury Fox.
He was impossible to resist. Charismatic, powerful and driven, he came with promises of a better life.. He seemed to have everything under control, knew exactly what he wanted and e...
The In-between
It’s strange what happens once you’ve become aware of something new. How a thought, an experience or a question that had only existed as a vague feeling suddenly takes shape. It stands there in full view, impossible to ignore. You sta...
In loving memory of a father and a world that no longer exists
I lost my words when my father’s heart stopped beating. He was sitting in his favorite armchair, the way he always did after lunch, and in the middle of a sentence, in a novel about the Second World War, he was suddenly gone. Quietly, with...
I Have Never Understood Money
I have never understood money. Not the way others seem to. It stresses me, sometimes even frightens me, and it enters conversations that are really about something else and makes everything else smaller. In the worlds I try to move in - the...
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Writer. Systems. Lust. Birds. Society. Attention. Grief. Trying to understand how humans remember how to live.
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