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Are Data-Mining and Advertising Stripping Language of its Meaning?

Posted on Apr 22, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com

I can understand why words construed as product placement serve the interest of the corporation or the state, but they don’t “enhance” or “empower” people.

Why Do We Need Celebrity "Gods" to Rescue Us?

Posted on Dec 12, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com

Transposed into the realm of politics, the greater images of celebrity bestow an aura of stability and calm upon a world disfigured by the frown lines of death and time.

Is the Myth of City Life More Significant Than the Real City Itself?

Posted on Sep 8, 2010, Source: Lapham's Quarterly

The city, as we imagine it -- myth, aspiration, nightmare -- is maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps and statistics.

We Expect Immortality From Medicine -- and It's Destroying Our Health

Posted on Sep 24, 2009, Source: Lapham's Quarterly

Our quest for eternal youth enables the country's dependence on a broken medical industrial complex.
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