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His work is one of the great literary accounts of the psychic costs of reification, of what he calls “a peculiar malign abstractness” within the culture of mid-twentieth-century capitalism.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
I wondered aloud if Margaret might be experiencing a similar resurgence of grief for Paul as she faced her own mortality.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Stutz
netflix.comHe also enlisted Dr. Daniel Muñoz, an acclaimed forensic anthropologist who, in 1985, had helped to identify the remains of Josef Mengele, the Nazi fugitive, and who could help confirm the origins of any object they might find from Fawcett’s party: a belt buckle, a bone fragment, a bullet.
David Grann • The Lost City of Z
anarchy.
Matt Haig • The Humans
juxtaposition of images to convey a mental state.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The forms of control accompanying the rise of neoliberalism in the 1990s were more invasive in their subjective effects and in their devastation of shared and collectively supported relations.