Popular Modernism

luka

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• Mar 30, 2020

• #21

version said:

This reminds me of what one of my mates said about a bunch of the most aggressively political students he went to uni with being white and wealthy and constantly taking it upon themselves to speak on behalf of everyone else.

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But also the spectacle, if I can get away with using that term, has specific vacancies available for a small number of people to speak on behalf of huge and disparate 'communities.' So it can 'listen to their concerns' and enter into 'dialogue' with these huge and disparate 'communities.'

 

version

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• Mar 30, 2020

• #22

Yeah, without ever actually doing it.

 

version

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• Mar 30, 2020

• #23

Like asking your butler who was at the door and what did they want.

 

luka

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• Mar 30, 2020

• #24

Version, community spokesman for Macclesfield.

 

version

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• Mar 30, 2020

• #25

luka said:

community spokesman for Macclesfield.

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shiels

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• Mar 30, 2020

• #26

version said:

Is that from Normal People? I keep hearing about that book.

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yeah i loved it. Bit like david nicholls one day, addictive romance, finished in a day. But i raise it because she threads marxist ideas through something very mass appeal

 

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sadmanbarty

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• Mar 31, 2020

• #27