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  • September 23, 2021

    Hydra/Hyphae and Vampirism

    “Simplicity is a mode of being in the world available to those enmeshed in white structures of feeling. Simplicity is an affect that motors the cultural imaginary of whiteness, an interpretive strategy."                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ...

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