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Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who the...

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David EaglemanSum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum ...

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The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force t...

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If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give ...

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[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class ...

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the opp...

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The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by...

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Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on...

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We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as frie...

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Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, p...

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Bell hooksBlack Looks: Race and Representation

The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that ...

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Bell hooksBlack Looks: Race and Representation