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“Before the law sits a gatekeeper. To this gatekeeper comes a man from the...”

– Franz Kafka, Parable of the Law, from The Trial (1925)

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“Sales clerks: “There are at least 20,000 in Paris….A great number of...”

– Walter Benjamin, Arcades Project p.53

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“At this moment Murphy would willingly have waived his expectation of...”

– Samuel Beckett, Murphy

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Why do Americans claim to be more religious than... →

Brenner found that the United States and Canada were outliers—not in religious attendance, but in overreporting religious attendance. Americans attended services about as often as Italians and Slovenians and slightly more than Brits and Germans. The significant difference between the two North American countries and other industrialized nations was the enormous gap between poll responses...

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Metropolitics | The Geography of Financial Crisis: An interview with David Harvey Question 1: Could you summarize the effect of the financial crisis on cities and their population, beyond the evictions linked to subprime mortgages? Question 2: You defend the idea that each new crisis is worse than the previous one. However, financial organizations seem to show an extraordinary resilience to...

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