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Tag: panic

  • the project of human mastery must always remain incomplete

    Procrastinating this morning by catching up on a stack of as-yet-unread newsletter emails from L M Sacasas. This bit in particular, from 11th March, chimed with a lot of my recent early-morning thinkings-through of The Ongoing Situation: … it is curious to note again the recent proliferation of conspiracy theorizing, something I’ve previously attributed to…

  • geography of fear / fear of geography

    Back when I used to live in Velcro City’s original namesake, I remember being told many times over, by many different sources, that difficult cases of social exclusion or dysfunction were often tagged by overburdened social workers in the area with the acronym NFP—“normal for Portsmouth”. Quite how normal (or not) those cases actually were—and…