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As the foundational crimes of the colonial project were escaping the Shadow Lands and coming to light, one thing was clear to many: The comforting mythologies of official history simply would not do any longer. Coming just one year after the racial reckonings that followed George Floyd’s killing, reckonings that had also shaken Canadian institutions in virtually every sector and profession, these monstrous, long-buried crimes inflicted on young bodies and minds by church and state demanded of Canadians a new story of who we are, how we got here, and who we want to be going forward.

Doppelganger

Naomi Klein

My eyes are shallow sand at the edge of the Tantwa River.

The Book of Malachi

T.C. Farren

Depressive hedonia, Fisher’s term for the downward spiral of closed pleasure-seeking feedback loops in the form of late-night YouTube and Twitter scrolling, would become an essential psychological precondition for 2010s radical right initiation, confirmed by the cliché of “lonely, young, online, white men” being algo- rithmically captured into the alt-right (2009: 21–22).

Acid facism.pdf

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