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- That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to…
- AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all…
- American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most…
- A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to…
- Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict.…
- A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
- Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are…
- A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the…
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