Sublime

powers of public surveillance and censorship while government powers are increasingly soliciting private data.

implicated

ideology, ignorance, and inertia—the

It revealed the bait and switch at the heart of standardized tests—the exact thing that made them unfair: She was teaching test-taking form for standardized exams that purportedly measured intellectual strength. My classmates and I would get higher scores—two hundred points, as promised—than poorer students, who might be equivalent in intellectual

is it an expression of queer anti-sociality, more evidence that “communities” are not communitarian?

As the philosopher Wendy Brown puts it, from the perspective of the modern imperial hub, “we have culture while they are a culture.”

in school and work, human beings are judged by categories that did not exist before:

disregard for “premodern” peoples and their inventions is precisely why we face a planetary crisis,