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On March 8 it was reported that at least five residents of Gaza were killed by the airdrops of humanitarian aid at the Al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City. Less than two weeks ago, Zein Oroq, a thirteen-year-old boy who survived an airstrike on his family...

‘The threat of one catastrophe is deferred by that of others’ (T. Adorno)
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We should never lose sight of the bigger picture. The string of geopolitical conflicts we are experiencing (as a rule, anticipated by corporate media and escalated when financial markets are closed) are neither accidental nor arbitrary. They are symptoms...

No memory exists in a vacuum. To remember is always to remember something else, and be reminded of yet another something, and another thing. These cascades of associations and remembering scaffold the depths of our psyche, out of which our minds grow...

In the last month, three people have “ghosted” me—ceased to communicate sans warning or explanation in what is a disquietingly common phenomenon in modern dating. I’d had a single date with one of them, A—. Then, we’d shifted to building what seemed...