The simple and uncomfortable truth of urban life is that it functions as a kind of brightly lit direct-to-consumer clearance warehouse with lifestyle amenities. Marginalisation and exclusion are not side effects; they are throughput. Value is not attached to who you are, how you feel, or what you believe except insofar as these can be […]
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