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Book cover for How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
The chief argument of this book is that we should think of the United States differently. Rather than conceiving of it as a contiguous blob, we should take seriously its overseas holdings, from large colonies to tiny islands. For that ...more
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Jonathan Crary
“One of the many reasons human cultures have long associated sleep with death is that they each demonstrate the continuity of the world in our absence.”
Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
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Stephen  King
“You don’t leave a can of gasoline where a boy with firebug tendencies can lay hands on it.”
Stephen King, Guns
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“Real-life activities that do not have an online correlate begin to atrophy, or cease to be relevant. There is an insurmountable asymmetry that degrades any local event or exchange. Because of the infinity of content accessible 24/7, there will always be something online more informative, surprising, funny, diverting, impressive than anything in one's immediate actual circumstances. It is now a given that a limitless availability of information or images can trump or override any human scale communication or exploration of ideas.”
Jonathon Crary

“these people of millennia past were not like us but with more dirt. Their beliefs were different, their prayers were different, their faith was different, their very thoughts were different, and yet we still live within their long shadows.”
Ed Simon, Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain

“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by issuing an emancipation proclamation he could kill Confederate chances of recognition in Europe.”
David Herbert Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man

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