There’s A Reason Why God Brings You Closer To Certain People And Then Lets Them Go
- Rania Naim
- Pablo Heimplatz
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The Meanings and Messages of Las Vegas
cairn.info What makes Las Vegas hyperreal is that its hype and the simulations it presents are increasingly becoming represented in the rest of our cities, thus becoming part of our everyday reality.
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in one case there is greater control of a singular organizational authority
cairn.info It is interesting, for example, that in modernist discourse—within the social science disciplines as well as in popular culture—our urban areas, such as New York and Los Angeles, are considered as part of human reality, when Disneyland or Universal Studios grounds are considered as “fantasy” lands. A closer look at the construction of these two types of spaces, however, simply discloses that, in fact, both are humanly constructed, despite the fact that in one case there is greater control of a singular organizational authority (e.g., Disney), and in the other the authority is somewhat more diffuse, having to legitimize itself through dominant political processes (e.g., Los Angeles).
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Baudrillard on Tour
newyorker.com The privilege of art in itself as art in itself has disappeared, so art is not what it thinks it is.
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I learned that this…
biblehub.com Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
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LANY
pitchfork.com LANY is less of a band, more of a Shutterstock image of what a band nowadays might be.
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A Brief History of Musicians Being Sued by Their Album Cover Subjects
pitchfork.com Placebo, a UK band once known as the “glam-rock Nirvana,” threatened a lawsuit in 2012, claiming that the group ruined his life. The sad-faced man in a flying helmet on the cover of a different 1996 album, Matchbox 20’s Yourself or Someone Like You, reportedly sued in 2005, citing emotional distress.
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Leave Society
amazon.com Li disliked trying to change others. Since college, he’d derived inspiration from a passage in The Book of Disquiet on how people who are concerned about evil and injustice in the world should begin the campaign against those things at their nearest source—themselves—in a task that would take a lifetime.
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not just the people who have the same cross-interacting identities that I do
thecreativeindependent.com You’ll be affecting people who you wouldn’t expect, not just the people who have the same cross-interacting identities that I do. I didn’t think I’d be affecting the people who were giving me wedgies when I was younger.
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you should be able to move here and focus on that
thecreativeindependent.com If you’re a young person moving to New York from Alabama and you do this very weird, niche thing, you should be able to move here and focus on that. And with the way the area’s working right now, you can’t do that. And it’s not fair.
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You’re still on that???
thecreativeindependent.com When people request songs for me to play it’s usually shit I made when I was 20, and I’m like, “You’re still on that? I’ve come out with like 13 records since then.” Like I was saying earlier, all my records are about me at that time, so it’s really hard for me to look back.
Thought Catalog Classics
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19 Things That Only People Who Were ‘Band Kids’ In School Will Understand
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Why You Should Not Go to Law School
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The Miracle Of A Very Good Ending
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I Am Not A ‘Netflix And Chill’ Kind Of Girl
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Here Is The Top ‘Love Language’ For Each Myers-Briggs Personality Type
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What I Wish Everyone Knew About Sylvia Plath
by Anne Thériault
