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Chernobyl as an Event: Thirty Years After

Chernobyl as an Event: Thirty Years After
8 years ago

Chernobyl as an Event: Thirty Years After

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THERE ARE THOSE EXCEPTIONAL INSTANCES, in which a date or a place stands for a particular event that happened then and there. “9/11” and “Chernobyl” symbolize in a recognizable shorthand …
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Social Media and the Lack of Consent
8 years ago

Social Media and the Lack of Consent

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SOCIAL MEDIA SUCH AS FACEBOOK, Snapchat, and Tinder were invented as part of a culture that objectifies and denigrates girls and women. It is well known that the Facebook founder …
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In Praise of Suicide
8 years ago

In Praise of Suicide

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WE SEEK FREEDOM. Is this not the rallying cry of American democracy, endlessly repeated, endlessly intoned as its most durable credo? We seek freedom to do as we want without …
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Inside Out
8 years ago

Inside Out

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THE BODY IS NOTHING but the outside: skin exposed, a network of sentient receivers and transmitters. All outside and nothing like “me” that would be held inside that wrapping. There …
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