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Margaret Atwood sat down for a great interview with Literary Hub’s Grant Munroe. They talked about the Hulu series based on The Handmaid’s Tale, Donald Trump, Salem witch trials, paper books and vinyl coming back, birds and housecats, and her numerous projects, including an upcoming novel based on Shakespear’s The Tempest. Here is just one of …
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He showed the words ‘chocolate cake’ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: ‘celebration.’ UC Berkeley’s Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (via darkryemag)
Degrees are just as much a part of magic as are amulets. Pierre Bourdieu “Rites of Institution” Language and Symbolic Power. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. p. 119
slaughterhouse90210: “A society manufactures the heroes it requires.” ― Colson Whitehead, Zone One
[Tweet by @shakiraevanss: The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It’s like people are so constantly begging to see it, but once they do someone’s a hoe.] (via so14below)
I think the average guy thinks they’re pro-woman, just because they think they’re a nice guy and someone has told them that they’re awesome. But the truth is far from it. Unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Junot …
Make your coffee matter.The common ground between coffee geeks and growers | Kathryn Hughes | Comment | The Guardian
Intellectual life, like all other social spaces, is a home to nationalism and imperialism, and intellectuals, like everyone else, constantly peddle prejudices, stereotypes, received ideas, and hastily simplistic representations which are fueled by the chance happenings of everyday life, like misunderstandings, general incomprehension, and wounded pride. Pierre Bourdieu. “The Social Conditions of the International Circulation …
A few early morning thoughts on this tragedy: Another case in the endless stream of questionable self-defense. Self-defense lethal through the omnipresence of guns. Second case I read today where the justice system seems to swing in favor of someone with a higher standing within the established power structure. After all, self-defense isn’t always applied …
Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption. Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
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