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I’ve long had reservations about the emancipatory rhetoric of past eras, especially the kind that treats liberation as a one-time event or event horizon. Nostalgia for prior notions of liberation—many of which depend heavily upon mythologies of revelation, violent upheaval, revolutionary machismo, and teleological progress—often strikes me as not useful or worse in the face of certain present challenges, such as global warming.
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― On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
― On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
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France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.
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