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Wendy Brown notes that when people in the present confront the specters of the past, "We inherit not `what really happened' to the dead but what lives on from that happening, what is conjured from it, how past generations and events occupy the force fields of the present, how they claim us, and how they haunt, plague, and inspire our imaginations and visions for the future."
— Oct 01, 2013 12:32PM
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"although a world where the regime of normalcy prevails is inevitable, there is always a segment of the population that is sacrificed to this conventional social order."45 (Quoting Jim Reichert)
— Sep 30, 2013 08:06PM
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Through breakdown of Kaita's art and poetry as it relates to his personal relationships
— Sep 29, 2013 05:29PM
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Through breakdown of Kaita's art and poetry as it relates to his personal relationships
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While symbolism and decadence originally represented two separate strains of European modernism, by the beginning of the twentieth century they had become inextricably tangled together, even within the minds of the European reading public.
--Meanwhile they were absorbed into Japanese culture simultaneously and therefore linked.
— Aug 29, 2013 03:00PM
--Meanwhile they were absorbed into Japanese culture simultaneously and therefore linked.
