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Notes on Trumpspace: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Fantasy of Home

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Your diamond in the sky. It seems a fantasy. And you are home. ~ Trump Tower advertisement In the wake of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, considerable ink was spilled on the architecture and interior design of ...

paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic (2nd edn.)

paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic is the definitive edition of the grand Klingon epic of Kahless the Unforgettable (qeylIS lIjlaHbogh pagh). The story of Kahless is a tale of legendary proportions comparable to those of ancient ...

Evil Twins and the Ultimate Insight: Ayn Rand, Vladimir Nabokov, and the Polarized Politics of Reading

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With the 2020 election, the political polarization in the U.S. entered a ludicrous end-stage. Partisanship, once a pseudo-rational system of biases, has devolved to a conflict between incompatible realities. In search of some pathway toward ...

Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-Matter

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Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-Matter tells the story of small matter such as bacteria, coral, fungi, lichen, pollen, protozoa, and viruses. With intentionally short entries that are organized like a herbarium or similar specimen ...

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