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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel


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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium


Generally speaking, all the authorities exercising individual control function according to a double mode; that of binary division and branding (mad/sane; dangerous/harmless; normal/abnormal); and that of coercive assignment of differential distribution (who he is; where he must be; how he is to be characterized; how he is to be recognized; how a c
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
He’d be nothing. He wouldn’t even be 571. The real authorities could turn him into anything at all.