Mary Gaitskill’s novel, Veronica, is a meditation on truth and beauty told by its self-proclaimed peripheral protagonist, Alison. The novel loosely tracks her life as she is sucked into into the sleazy world of modelling, through drug-filled highs and lows, pooling around her relationships with her friend Veronica, and her own family, to which she […]
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The book I would like to share is by the recently deceased philosopher Bruno Latour, titled “Down to Earth: Politics in the new climatic regime”, which he wrote, in French, in 2018. I particularly like how Latour unpacks two of the major discourses of our age, to paraphrase badly, one is ‘localism’ and the ‘globalism’.
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