HeyJaredThe Berlin Dead Letter Drop
David Turnbull posts essays related to Berlin, Europe, books, art, philosophy, or whatever else, every month. He lives and works in Berlin and is a regular contributor to Emergency Horse Magazine.
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A Real Dive (opens the original)
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Originally published in EH 2, November 1991At first sight it doesn’t look like much. “Tacheles,” a cultural house, or Kunsthaus, is an enormous, decaying structure; an inattentive passerby might easily take it for one of East Berlin’s many crumbling ruins. The building’s facade has almost entirely fallen away, and large sections of the exterior wall have disappeared, exposing vast floors to wind and rain. On the ground floor there is a flurry of sound and activity. Men and women spill out onto t
You Have Entered the Republic of Užupis (opens the original)
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Hard Delete: UnZuck Yourself (opens the original)
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Originally published in Emergency Horse Magazine #8, Fall 2025<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="516" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KHBq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-pos
Hard Delete: Killing Amazon (opens the original)
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Published in Emergency Horse Magazine #9, April 2026<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="516" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8NdQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.co
Strange frequencies from Albania (opens the original)
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In the 1970s, the curious American child had decent options. Well-funded local libraries, dusty used bookstores, and public television offered glimpses into a wider world. But there was another, more technical option for the intrepid—the shortwave radio. I had one and often scanned the frequencies in the hours before bedtime. The content was highly ephemeral. Signals came and went and were often hard to understand, and there was nothing like regularly scheduled programming. Shortwave was a world
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