Dear Felix,
With this refreshed invitation, I’ll take a stab at keeping the conversation
going.
As for breaks, ruptures, and discontinuities, I wonder about Nixon’s Silent
Majority, about whether it exists anymore. When Trump finally emerged from his
bunker, his retreat from White House prote
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Someone save us from the banality of the Italian media on the racial issue
in the USA, always presented as a problem " them." As if in Italy
institutional racism does not exist and as if the United States was not
founded on European colonization and the deportatio
On 3/06/20 5:48 am, tbyfield wrote:
> everything as *broken* is a world in the past tense; all you can do is
> *rebuild* — another word that tracks "is broken" with almost hilarious
> precision...
>
>
> https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=rebuild%2Crebuilding%2C+is+broken&year_start=19
This is fascinating response. It’s getting harder here to be a journalist
or to take pictures, but we still believe we can. Sometimes I think the
sheer number of images, for instance, just yesterday on Twitter, of NYPD
beating bicyclists and medical workers out after curfew - because the order
was
> that
> are broken (and hence in need of fixing)
Thank you
but about historical discontinuities, about possible breaks with
> established patterns that open up space for new dynamics, for the better or
> worse.
We are feeling the answer to this with every protest, and all the looting
and ev
As an observer of the last 45 years in U.S. and local politics (NYC)
I'd propose that "what's breaking" is the denial by the average white
privileged person that the status quo is fair, equitable, and just for
all citizens not just them.
McCorkle Terence Diamond
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