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“Do Not Mention David Foster Wallace”: On Jonathan Franzen’s Farther Away
By Noah Stayton posted at 12:00 pm on May 8, 2012 0 I had set out to review Jonathan Franzen’s newest release (Farther Away: Essays) with only one goal in mind — “Do Not Mention…
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Amelia goes to Amelia: Art crush: Cassandra Laing
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2 hours ago
Sacha Cohen’s War
The defining moment in The Dictatorcomes when Sacha Baron Cohen sings ‘Ebony and Ivory’ with the decapitated head of a black man. Cohen’s character, the fictional North African…
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yesterday
Women in armed struggle
[From an earlier time] The second in what will be a series of translations of texts from communist and anarchist struggles in the Italian Long 1970s. (The text is below the break for those who want…
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2 days ago
Alterity and Life in the Thought of Lingis
This paper pays homage to Al Lingis’s mastery of key figures in the transcendental, existential, and phenomenological traditions of philosophy. In the works of the 1980s, Phenomenological…
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4 days ago
Dorothea Olkowski
The Vortices Each morning we wake up to an ongoing miracle. Light is there for us and it forms a level. Along this level I see the color-contrasts of the Western mountain range’s phosphoresce.…
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4 days ago
Simon Reynolds interviews Greil Marcus
Image: Thierry Arditti, Paris Earlier this year I visited Greil Marcus, widely considered the greatest living rock writer, at his home on the border between Berkeley and Oakland to profile him for…
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5 days ago
Simon Reynolds interviews Greil Marcus
Image: Thierry Arditti, Paris Earlier this year I visited Greil Marcus, widely considered the greatest living rock writer, at his home on the border between Berkeley and Oakland to profile him for…
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5 days ago
Simon Reynolds interviews Greil Marcus
Earlier this year I visited Greil Marcus, widely considered the greatest living rock writer, at his home on the border between Berkeley and Oakland to profile him for the British newspaper The…
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5 days ago
Islam is the new black: a conversation with Sarah Maple
Since winning London’s 4 New Sensations competition in 2007, 23 year old painter/photographer Sarah Maple has been making headlines. The competition, sponsored by Charles Saatchi and…
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5 days ago
Circle of Presence
Altered photograph of Murray Kempton, via On a recent Sunday, I opened up my Twitter feed to find Sherry Turkle getting pummeled for an opinion piece in the  New York Times, “The Flight…
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6 days ago
Simon Reynolds interviews Greil Marcus
Image: Thierry Arditti, Paris This is part four of a four-part interview. Click here to read parts one, two, and three. Earlier this year I visited Greil Marcus, widely considered the…
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6 days ago
Let's talk about sex, baby
To promote his new book How to think more about sex Alain de Botton took part in a live Q&A on the Guardian website. I’m no porn evangelist. I’m well aware of the darker side both…
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6 days ago
Articles | Towards a New Hegemony (Part 1)
Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? talked to Ed Lewis and Samuel Grove about the status of capitalist realism, social media and the challenges for the…
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6 days ago
This 'Thank You, Facebook' Video Is the Best Thing to Come Out of the IPO
I do not think that I can add anything to this video, but I would like to thank its creators, who have brought so much joy to me on this day. "Most of the people in this video have never met face to…
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6 days ago
Jubilee for Republicans and the Queen
London, United Kingdom - This year Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her Diamond Jubilee. Is it time for Britain's republicans to stop worrying and learn to love the Crown?One of the more reactionary…
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6 days ago
How Donna Summer's I Feel Love changed pop
A cinematic drone comes in fast from silence, quickly overtaken by two synthesised rhythm tracks that will go in and out of phase for the next lifetime. On top, Donna Summer soars and swoops as she…
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6 days ago
Lucas Christ Presents Gungan Poodoo
One of the pleasures of doing acid is the effect of all things seeming to be simultaneously possible and true. The perceptible world is not just made hallucinogenic but becomes a place where…
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8 days ago
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
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8 days ago
Like John Scalzi Says, White Straight Male Is Life’s Easiest Difficulty Setting. So Why Do White Guys Think They’re Oppressed?
John Scalzi put up a hell of a blogpost yesterday. Titled “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is,” it uses a videogame analogy to explain the concept of white…
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8 days ago
Toward a Poetics of Cinematic Disgust
From Trainspotting, Miramax, 1996 by Julian Hanich In this essay [1] I try to categorize the range of artistic options that filmmakers currently have at hand to evoke bodily disgust. [2] Or, to…
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10 days ago
China Miéville Unleashes Linguistic Apocalypse in Episode 43 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
China Mi ville, author of Perdido Street Station and The City The City , joins us to discuss Dungeons Dragons , international relations, and his recent science fiction novel Embassytown . Art by…
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10 days ago
The Greek inferno: First the unravelling, then the rupture
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras at a pre-election rally in Athens Read mainstream accounts of the massive electoral re
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11 days ago
‘We found love in a hopeless place’
The central point of this song and music video by violinist Lindsey Stirling (the singer is one Alisha Popat) begins with an invocation of a familiar trope: Africa is a hopeless place. But…
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11 days ago
Articles | Is Porn Hijacking Our Sexuality? A Response
New Left Project recently hosted a vigorous debate on pornography between two feminist writers – the journalist Sarah Ditum who took a pro-porn stance, and the academic and activist Gail Dines…
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12 days ago
LRB · Iain Sinclair · The Olympics Scam: The Razing of East London
In the mornings, there is a clinging, overripe smell that some people say drifts in from the countryside, a folk memory of what these clipped green acres used, so recently, to be. Mulch of market…
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19 days ago
Le racisme des intellectuels
L'importance du vote pour Marine Le Pen accable et surprend. On cherche des explications. Le personnel politique y va de sa sociologie portative : la France des gens d'en bas, des provinciaux…
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19 days ago
The Scream's price tag should make us all despair
I used to like The Scream. Its sky of blood and zombie despair seemed to say so much, so honestly. Munch is a poet in colours. His pictures portray moods, most of which are dark. But sometimes on a…
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19 days ago
insularities/cosmopolitanisms
The topos of the island explores and creates bridges between the real and the imaginary as well as crossings between genres and disciplines. Islands are articulated as utopias/dystopias, loci amoeni,…
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19 days ago
The Resentment Machine
(Geoff McFetridge, via) The immiseration of the digital creative class  by Freddie deBoer The popular adoption of the internet has brought with it great changes. One of the peculiar aspects…
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19 days ago
Viewpoint: Why Africa's international image is unfair
Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author and a past winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, argues that the world has got its image of Africa very badly wrong. Let us imagine that Africa was really…
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21 days ago
Nonhuman Turn Day 1: Massumi
This is the first of my blog posts from the Nonhuman Turn conference. These will be uploaded as they come over the next two and a half days. Special thanks to the University of Wisc
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21 days ago
In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game
Jean Gaumy/Magnum Photos Pripyat, the abandoned city in the "zone of alienation" near Chernobyl, Ukraine, May-June 2008. Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker,…
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21 days ago
Janel Monae vs. Shephard Fairey
As promised, here is an excerpt from a work in progress where I read Monae as critiquing Shephard Fairey's appropriation/use of images of radicalized non-Western women of color.First, let's put some…
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22 days ago
The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations.
You’ll have to forgive the lateness but I just got around to reading The Chronicle’s recent piece on the young guns of black studies. If ever there were a case for eliminating the…
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22 days ago
Hipster Racism
After Jezebel's recent post on Hipster Racism, the topic is newly hot in the feminist/race blogosphere. And that's great! We really need to be talking about the ways racism and white supremacy inform…
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22 days ago
Shut up, Johnny Depp
From EW: “Johnny Depp reveals origins of Tonto makeup from ‘The Lone Ranger’ — EXCLUSIVE“ It was clear from this first photo of Depp and Armie Hammer, released…
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24 days ago
How free is the will? Sam Harris misses his mark
For millenia, myth-makers, poets, philosophers, theologians, novelists and others have wrestled with a daunting question: whether, or to what extent, our lives are in our own hands (or minds). To…
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24 days ago
Murdoch’s Little Helper | Hacking inquiry - Hacked off
by Brian Cathcart (Picture: Howard Lake) So now we know the character of the relationship between the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and News International, and it could hardly look…
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4 weeks ago
Unsolving the City: An Interview with China Miéville
The work of novelist China Miéville is well-known—and increasingly celebrated—for its urban and architectural imagery. In his 2000 novel Perdido Street Station, for instance, an…
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4 weeks ago
Anonymity as Culture
BEFORE FACEBOOK AND TWITTER BECAME avenues for advertising ourselves and our careers, before Internet dating became not only acceptable but preferable to the alternatives, before so much of our…
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4 weeks ago
The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future
After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups. Finnish teenagers performing digital ennui in 1996 2006. Reuters. We're there. The future…
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4 weeks ago
The disappearing virtual library
Los Angeles, CA - Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it…
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4 weeks ago
Future Cities: Combined Advanced Technologies and Flexible Urban Infrastructures
Mapping the landscape for agile design The 20th century convinced us that the future has a linear trajectory that progresses incrementally - so that tomorrow is exactly like today – only a…
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4 weeks ago
Excerpt: 'The Imposter: BHL in Wonderland' by Jade Lindgaard and Xavier de la Porte
From Preface: Who’s Afraid of BHL? Any British or American reader who picks up this book is more than likely to have come across a sort of joke French intellectual called Bernard-Henri…
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5 weeks ago
Minor Politics, Territory and Occupy
In a talk given by Nick Thoburn at the School of Ideas this February, some of the Occupy movement’s most hopeful qualities were magnified through the lens of Deleuze and Guattari’s…
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5 weeks ago
First Thoughts on Nick Land's Work
I’ve been reading the essays collected in Nick Land’s Fanged Noumena on-and-off over the last year, and I’m now running out of unread pages, so I thought it’d be a good…
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5 weeks ago
NLP – training’s shameful, fraudulent cult
Know this guy? He was arrested for First Degree murder in 1988 and charged with the murder of his bookkeeper, who was also running a call-girl operation on the side. He had plunged headlong into…
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5 weeks ago
The New Atlantis » The Population Control Holocaust
Robert Zubrin There is a single ideological current running through a seemingly disparate collection of noxious modern political and scientific movements, ranging from militarism, imperialism,…
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5 weeks ago
You Can't "Grow the Movement" by Dissing the Kids: On Chris Hedges and Occupy | MyFDL
Chris Hedges is on a mission.  That mission is to save the Occupy movement from anarchists who employ any tactic of which Hedges does not approve.  Apparently he never read, or gave…
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5 weeks ago
Picture Pluperfect
“Picture Pluperfect” appears in The New Inquiry Magazine, No. 3: Arguing the Web. Images by imp kerrIt is easy to mistake what we do online as centrally about exposure and transparent…
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5 weeks ago
The Hoodie and the Hijab Are Not Equals
Last month, an American-born Iraqi woman, Shaima Alawadi, was viciously murdered in the United States.  According to reports, her daughter stated that a racist note was left outside the family…
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5 weeks ago
A Short History Of Neoliberalism
The richest 358 people on earth possess as much wealth as the poorest 45% (2.3 billion people). Super, left-leaning, essay looks at how this happened, the flaws of neoliberal economics, and how we…
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5 weeks ago
Film Studies For Free: Studies of Long-Form Television, Part 1: THE WIRE
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6 weeks ago
an unabashedly—but deservedly—fawning review of Belen Fernandez’s The Imperial Messenger
More sophisticated readers of the New York Times’ editorial pages have, for years, fumed at Thomas Friedman’s inane musings. Even less sophisticated readers, some of which write book…
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6 weeks ago
What Sorts of People
Last week, on March 23, 2012, Joshua St. Pierre, one of the summer interns from the Living Archives Project who is currently working on his MA in Philosophy at the University of Alberta, gave a…
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6 weeks ago
Game of Thrones as History
Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) in the HBO Series Game of Thrones (Courtesy HBO). For half a century, fantasy has essentially been a series of footnotes to Tolkien. Until George R.R. Martin, that…
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7 weeks ago
Rigorous self-critique
I found this written on a post-it note on my desk under a pile of papers, and I can’t remember what it was supposed to be for. I think it might be the conclusion to an essay I may never have…
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7 weeks ago
Variazioni foucaultiane: Foucault replies to questions from the audience @ Berkeley's History Department in 1983 (transcribed by Arianna Bove @ Generation-online.org)
michelfoucault  archaeology  genealogy 
7 weeks ago
Step into my film school! The importance of casting in breaking open movie stereotypes
Did any of you catch Matt Zoller Seitz’s pieces on underrated actors and actresses? Given that the purpose of “top ten” lists is to make people argue about who should really be on…
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7 weeks ago
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7 weeks ago
Flavorwire » What Comes After the Hipster? We Ask the Experts
With Lana Del Rey’s meteoric, blog hype-fueled rise and rapid, SNL-catalyzed descent, the mere existence of MTV’s I Just Want My Pants Back and the trendy intellectual publication n+1…
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7 weeks ago
What the Cultural Value of Disability and Star Trek Have in Common
In the story, a Hmong refugee child living with her family in Central California has epilepsy, complete with grand mal seizures. Epilepsy, viewed within the Hmong culture, is a blessing, a gift from…
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7 weeks ago
Friday Music Geek-Out #1
So, I haven’t been able to teach music-focused courses for a few years (budget cuts). This means that I haven’t been forced to set time aside to listen to and think about music as music,…
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7 weeks ago
Minor Cords
Nothing inspires rage more than the cage of Child Protective Services, which operates without explanation or instruction. I still have a vivid memory of being hauled through corridors by the…
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8 weeks ago
The embalmer’s art
In New Inquiry recently Anton Steinpilz drew attention to Walter Benn Michaels’ concept of the neoliberal novel. It’s a neat term to describe the fiction of the past fifty years or…
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8 weeks ago
Character and Its Discontents
Yes, that’s what I like about me, at least one of the things, that I can say, Up the Republic!, for example, or, Sweetheart!, for example, without having to wonder whether I should not rather…
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8 weeks ago
the piracy and the misogyny by linnea hincks
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8 weeks ago
New Voices: Runs Girl
New Voices highlights six emerging talents each year on granta.com. The latest in series is Chinelo Okparanta, who also features in the latest issue of the magazine, Exit Strategies, with…
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8 weeks ago
Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
I'm on record as favoring a sociological perspective on the question of the relation of analytic and continental philosophy. In other words, I think it's much more useful to focus on hiring and…
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8 weeks ago
When Poverty Was White
Carrie Buck with her mother, Emma, perhaps for the first time since her childhood, on the day before the trial that led to her sterilization. CARRIE BUCK, or rather her last name, appears just…
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8 weeks ago
Mind & Brain
3-D reconstruction of part of there neurons, generated from a stack of images of the mouse cortex.  Each branch of each neuron is studded with hundreds of little spines. R. Schalek, B.…
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8 weeks ago
On HBO’s “Game Change,” and Hating Ladies for the Right Reasons
I have a bad habit, with movies. I don’t get to see them as often as I used to — I don’t really cover them much for work these days, and they’re expensive to see…
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8 weeks ago
The Brain: The Connections May Be The Key
Writing Worth Reading The brain contains 100 billion neurons, which are joined together by a quadrillion connections. It’s these links that allow for learning and memory. But no scientist has…
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8 weeks ago
Jon Cogburn's Blog
[Update: Newapps thread on this HERE. I said my piece in the comment section and fully expect the Chomskyans to come out in force. So it should be interesting reading. My policy now with respect to…
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8 weeks ago
The White Savior Industrial Complex
If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.Left, Invisible Children's Jason Russell. Right, a protest leader in Lagos, Nigeria / Facebook,…
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9 weeks ago
Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France
View full graphic There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher.That may sound obvious. But it is, in fact, key to…
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9 weeks ago
The White Savior Industrial Complex
If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.Left, Invisible Children's Jason Russell. Right, a protest leader in Lagos, Nigeria / Facebook,…
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9 weeks ago
The last time we redefined what it means to be human
Over the past decade, you may have noticed more and more articles referring to "hominins" rather than "hominids." Just why are Homo sapiens and her ancestors now called hominins? The answer isn't…
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9 weeks ago
Gay marriage and the future of human sexuality
The controversy surrounding gay marriage has now reached a fever pitch in countries like Australia and the UK, as governments have begun to move past debate and towards legislative change. While…
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9 weeks ago
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