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“My impulse, over the past few years, had been to remove myself from my own life, to watch from the periphery and try to see the vectors, the scaffolding, the systems at play. Psychologists might refer to this as dissociation; I considered it the sociological approach. It was, for me, a way out of unhappiness.”
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― Uncanny Valley
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― A Far Cry from Kensington
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― Loitering With Intent
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― Uncanny Valley
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