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·Nov 27, 2020

Neo-China arrives from the future

Within the now infamously memetic ‘CCRU: Writings 1997–2003’, it states, ‘Neo-China arrives from the future.’ The latest Xenomars’ track is titled ‘Renminbi’ in reference to the official name for Chinese currency. The track is described as ‘A sensorial trip into Chinese culture and the visual impact it will have in…

Futurism

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Neo-China arrives from the future
Neo-China arrives from the future

Published in PUBLICPRESSURE

·Nov 10, 2020

The system itself is nihilistic | Public Pressure

Firstly, I no longer see myself as a politically engaged person. This reluctance to engage politically stems from the energy I ultimately end up providing to a system that I don’t care about. …

Baudrillard

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The system itself is nihilistic | Public Pressure
The system itself is nihilistic | Public Pressure

Sep 5, 2020

I am a millennial, leave me alone!

I fucking hate zoom. How did my generation, the millennials, go from refusing to communicate except over text message to being available 24/7 on-call for video chat? …

Millennials

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I am a millennial, leave me alone!
I am a millennial, leave me alone!

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·Sep 5, 2020

If you’re not triggered by white fragility read on

“During this time of division and conflicting opinions, this time of accusations and realisations, I’ve occupied myself in the penning of a book. I’ve given Public Pressure the green light as it were to publish my author’s intro and subsequent first chapter. …

Blm

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If you’re not triggered by white fragility read on
If you’re not triggered by white fragility read on

May 5, 2020

The hyperreality of Animal Crossing: New Horizons

“Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the real country, all of real America, which is Disneyland… Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no…

Phylosophy

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The hyperreality of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
The hyperreality of Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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·Mar 10, 2020

Terorski: in solidarity with Tamansari

It should be noted that the modern conception of Indonesia rose out of an era of colonialism and struggle against the military oppression of both Western colonial powers and Japanese imperialism. …

Indonesia

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Terorski: in solidarity with Tamansari
Terorski: in solidarity with Tamansari

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·Feb 19, 2020

The scariest thing I have ever written

I’m nonbinary. I am writing this not for me, but for all of you because breaking the rules of gender benefits us all — trans, cis, we are all in it together. Making the world more gender-friendly helps everyone, yet people argue that trans people are a minority. That is…

LGBTQ

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The scariest thing I have ever written
The scariest thing I have ever written

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·Dec 14, 2019

Corbyn wasn’t the problem, you were!

A day after the election, The Guardian released, perhaps, its greatest piece of journalism since The Snowden Leaks. A simple, eighteen-minute video titled, ‘How Labour lost, and the hope that endures’. Two journalists, John Harris and John Domokos, trace a journey on the election campaign, interviewing ordinary people from ‘a…

Politics

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Corbyn wasn’t the problem, you were!
Corbyn wasn’t the problem, you were!

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·Nov 27, 2019

Lofi boriswave — what timeline is this?

It’s a cold, Tuesday morning, when I awake from apocalyptic dreams and reaching towards the darkness of the nightstand — now, holding the handset — the candle-light screen of my addiction towards my face, I finally began the daily ritual, starting with the creed of Samsung, the liturgy of Facebook…

Politics

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Lofi boriswave — what timeline is this?
Lofi boriswave — what timeline is this?

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·Apr 29, 2019

Extinction Rebellion and the world we will inherit

“Everything is here, heaven has come down to earth, the heaven of utopia, and what existed in profile as a radiant perspective is now lived as a catastrophe in slow motion.” Jean Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies. On 25th April 2019, Phil Kingston of the Christian Climate Action affinity group was lifted…

Politics

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Extinction Rebellion and the world we will inherit
Extinction Rebellion and the world we will inherit
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