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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Certain images underscore an unbridgeable gap and a never-to-be-toppled hierarchy. When a group of people is judged to be “foreign,” it becomes far more likely that news organizations will run, for the consumption of their audiences, explicit, disturbing photographs of members of that group: starving children or bullet-riddled bodies. Meanwhile, th
... See moreTeju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
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Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. T
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Orwell's Roses
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
certain d’emprunter, enfin, les sentes obscures d’une existence poétique, et il redescendait l’avenue, mélancolique, rattrapé par l’air du temps. On désirait le changer d’histoire, le remettre dans le sens de l’efficacité et de la réussite, à l’instant même où, grâce à Jean Trézenik, il prenait des chemins de traverse, à l’heure où il s’écartait de
... See morePatrice Jean • La poursuite de l'idéal (French Edition)
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Man of the Crowd.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
But on actually going out there, I lost myself in abstract contemplations, seeing but not seeing the riverscapes I’d looked forward to seeing, while on the way back I lost myself in mentally nailing down those sensations.