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• Capitalism and Suicide

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 99
  A reminder of an observation by Walter Benjamin from Steve Waters at the Guardian : Walter Benjamin once observed – contentiously, and somewhat problematically – that while suicide has a long history, the modern conception of it as the ultimate solution to personal failure derives from the ascendancy of ...
  1 week ago

• Andrew Gallix on the Death of Literature

  
  A Piece of Monologue: Literature, Philosophy & Critical Theory — Authority: 410
  Is literature a work of disappearance?As part of The Guardian websites In Theory series, Andrew Gallix discusses the role of contemporary literature, and the work of Tom McCarthy, Lee Rourke and Lars Iyer: By this token, the novels of Tom McCarthy, Lee Rourke and Iyer himself are not so much evidence of a nouveau ...
  1 week ago

• Proudly Gay: Composer Mohammed Fairouz

  
  The New Civil Rights Movement — Authority: 643
  Composer Mohammed Fairouz – at 26, already phenomenally accomplished – is a prime exemplar of how a gay human being is able to flourish when raised far away from the corrosive toxin of ignorance-fueled bigotry. Born in Manhattan to a Lebanese mother, who plays the flute, and an Egyptian father, who plays piano, ...
  3 weeks ago

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