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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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It was announced today that the 2025 Holberg Prize is awarded to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Daniela Alaattinoğlu will receive the Nils Klim Prize. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak named 2025 Holberg Laurate Today, the Holberg Prize—one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology—named Indian scholar Gayatri…
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Class Actor in British Politics Critical Perspectives Mar 29, 2025 Background and Early Influences Kemi Badenoch’s life experiences span multiple socioeconomic contexts, which no doubt shape her political outlook. Born in Wimbledon to Nigerian parents who were part of the Nigerian professional elite, her father a medical doctor who owned a clinic and later founded…
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What I observed in North Dakota was shocking. Greenpeace lost the trial not because it did something wrong, but because it was denied a fair trial. Steven Donziger Mar 26, 2025 (Please consider upgrading to a paid subscription. This is one of the few ways I can generate income after Chevron took my law license…
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How capital separated workers from control over the potentials of science Kevin Thomas Mar 29, 2025 [Drawing by April Burke ] The knowledge, judgement and will which, even though to a small extent, are exercised by the independent peasant or handicraftsman […] are faculties now required only for the [manufacturing] workshop as a whole. The…
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The birth of Modernity’s Meaning Crisis and two responses to it The Living Philosophy Dec 09, 2021 In the 19th and 20th centuries, modernity came into its fullness and with this maturation, the vestiges of the religious worldview began to fall away revealing a crisis of meaning that we’ve come to call Nihilism. This emergence of…
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