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Author Archives: Ken MacLeish

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August 17, 2015

“He didn’t blow us up”—routine violence and non-event as case

By Ken MacLeish

This case is a story that a soldier told me. I call her Kelly, and she said it was “the craziest story I was gonna get” from her. So for her it was an extreme, a worst case, but also a kind of telos of conditions she lived with and feelings she felt every day in occupied Iraq. It was …

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‪Itemizing the technological present: A series of short entries from scholars on the classical and contemporary sites in medicine and science.‬

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