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Thought, written (sometimes badly), drawn (often worse), and photographed by Ilayda Tank Sundt.
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In a letter to a dear friend, Maurice Blanchot once wrote or tiredness as possessing “a broad heart”. Lacking sufficient defense, we are receptive creatures. A tired society, on the other hand, carries even broader implications. On the political scale, tiredness fosters a restless mind, often described as political fatigue. Differing from the broad heart’s receptiveness, political…
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The Architecture of Anorexia The oscillation between starvation and gorging exists as a gravitational pull within us , manifesting as eating disorders . Our bodies have become buildings meant to be torn down once inhabitable, or undeserving of its residents. The architecture of anorexia is constructed on this one tenet of our economy, deservance. Another…
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Norge – Det finnes en vond taushet i hjertet, i innlandet, i hjemlandet. Menn føler seg forkastet, men i det stille hvisker Ivaar Aasen og Simen Velle i øret: “Om du skriv og fortel litt om deg sjølv, så skal eg skaffe deg ei skrivebok og ein god penn” (Tiller, 270). Frode – for et…
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Contemporary Romance Literature and its Derogatory Depictions of Sex: Paulo Freire on Colleen Hoover. “Designed to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind” is what George Orwell made of the English language. Any attempt to translate lived experience to written form is, to some sense, a dishonest act; the written word will never fully…
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