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Slow Violence and Waiting
Lisa Baraitser, Enduring Time (2017)
Contradictory temporal experiences in the 21st century:
Acceleration: Social life feels increasingly immediate, fast, urgent.
Slow violence: Long-term, nearly invisible harms of contemporary capitalism.
Examples of slow violence:
Permanent and irreversible loss of biodiversity.
Prolonged and
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