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Hobbs puts three issues on the agenda: photography, the western genre, and the absurd. Only her flushed face reveals evidence of nerves. She discusses the camera as a “violent tool” in the context of “visual pleasure and narrative cinema.” Then she delivers the heartfelt confession, “Thomas Mann said that all women are misogynists. I can identify
... See moreSarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
As a political theorist, hooks believed fiercely in the power of naming systems—her recurring phrase, in defining what we are up against, was “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.”5 But she was far more ambivalent about the impulse to attach identity signifiers to our beings, to brand ourselves as a this, or a that. In her landmark 1984 book,
... See moreNaomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Will Tavlin • Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
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Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
The issue now and during the next decade is access to the center of gravity of the technocracy, the leading universities that not only teach subjects but train you in the social rituals that allow you to belong to the technocracy. Those universities are increasingly closed to those who didn’t descend from this group.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
As the naturalist Edward O. Wilson put it, we’ve got ‘Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology’.
Carolyn Steel • Sitopia
Hannah Arendt, Agency, and the Public Space
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