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The Book Club: Everything, All The Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

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Is That a Fair Description of the Split?

There is the charge which goes through your work that essentially leads them into a sort of quietism. That what the theyare saying, wet mark tis, for generations, thave been saying, right? We want to overthrow the world, straight world, by changing its mater real shape. And personal odenists say, we can't do that. So we're just going to change symbols, ideas, signs, we know, visuals, feelings. I draw this parallel in the book between comingoff the gold standard, you know, nixon coming off the gold standard in 19 72,. and it's still cirly pang for you for personal odeis i think it is

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