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I found myself shaking his hand warmly. Minutes later I was out on the street. A boy walked splay-footed across a public lawn, nudging a soccer ball before him. A second kid sat on the grass, taking off his socks by grabbing the heels and yanking. How literary, I thought peevishly. Streets thick with the details of impulsive life as the hero ponder
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L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
“He was coming in hard and low: a squat missile. I got to my feet and watched him come. I didn't try to run. I was transfixed.
It had been thirty-three and a half years since the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's notorious death order against me and all those involved in the publication of The Satanic Verses, and during those years, I confess, I had som
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reports. That was what I considered
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
society’s ability to meet people’s psychological and psycho-social needs appears to have declined. There has been a rise of individualism.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
While the most insignificant animal species take thousands, sometimes millions of years to disappear, manufactured products are wiped off the surface of the globe in a few days; they’re never given a second chance, they can only suffer, powerless, the irresponsible and fascistic diktat of product-line managers who of course know better than anyone
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