Tag: environment
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Holiday Iconoclasm
Winter holiday season is something I really enjoyed for most of my childhood. Holidays or any school-free days were great, but Christmas season in particular was cool; I got to be away from my shitty teacher for a longer period of time, visited relatives, was taken to not-too-shabby restaurants, got bombarded with gifts, and so…
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Roadkill; Roads Kill
A puddle of blood covered the road and its metallic smell wafted up and down the underpass. Cars whizzed by, and the short fuzzy fur billowed in the gusts of wind. The fox’s corpse lay motionless, still warm as I touched it. I noticed a car was coming towards me, so I immediately grabbed and…
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Noam Chomsky is Wrong About Anarcho-Primitivism
Being one of the most known American anarchists, Noam Chomsky has for years been at the centre of attention. A household name, he’s become one of the most cited living authors (mostly in the linguistic field), though far too many know him only for his political activism. This is where we run into problems, because…
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Breathing in the Vapor
During my mid-teens (early 2010s) a new aesthetic/music genre gained a fair amount of traction, mostly online. While it is commonly viewed as a satirical bent on modern consumerism, I can’t help but notice vaporwave is in a way critical of more than just consumerism — vaporwave to me seems to reach far into the…