Desire and Fate

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Desire and Fate

Desire and Fate

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Jan 31, 2023
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The usual critique of the identitarian and communitarian literature and art of today is that it is conformist. “Everyone in the United States speaks about diversity, but everyone says the same thing,” was the way Baudrillard put it one of his interviews after the publication of his book America, that strange mashup of Nathanael West, Guy Debord, Roland …

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