Byung-Chul Han is a Korean German philosopher who writes short, angry books about why modern life feels like a nightmare. He is popular in certain internet circles right now, and for good reason. He put words to a fee...
Continue readingWe have already established that CBE is a nightmare (the queues, the broken ATMs, the teller who clicks keys like he is defusing a bomb, the inexplicable page-ripping they do to poor notebooks). But here is the thing:...
Continue readingno editing. no revision. no coming back tomorrow and fixing the awkward parts. this is exactly what came out at exactly this time with exactly this level of coherence (low) and honesty (uncomfortably high).
Continue readingThe take: “Colonialism brought civilization, infrastructure, and Christianity to Africa. Africa would be nothing without it.”Who said it: Cecil Rhodes, various European historians, and the occasional modern politician...
Continue readingAngela Davis was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in 1970. She was acquitted of all charges. She became a professor. She wrote books that changed how America thinks about prisons. She is still alive, still fighting, ...
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