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Half Awake in a Fake Empire

Freedom, Natality, and the Loss of the World in Hannah Arendt’s America The United States of America is not merely a sovereign state, but a political and affective project bound to a specific promise of freedom, action, and the immutable experience of wonder. In the final lines of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald glimpsesContinue reading “Half Awake in a Fake Empire”

One of these days.

I love New Order. Perhaps it’s because I grew up with them – they’re my dad’s favourite band. I’ve got these fond memories of hearing those glimmering synths, those droning basslines. Theirs might’ve been one of the first pieces of music I ever heard. And yet, despite knowing them all my life, it’s only todayContinue reading “One of these days.”