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Again: as my wife’s set began, my skin contracted, I became a rock, tingling underneath, and my head started to race. Was this because of that amygdala, which was triggering all sorts of common sensations that can only be caught in clichés? No. I heard VanWyck’s fingers on the guitar opening up the…

“He’s been a Mason ever since he was a young man. It’s very important to him.”

“How does the barometer work?” he asked, since they were standing next to it.

“It measures the air pressure, doesn’t it? If it’s high, that’s a nice day.”

“But it says ‘Change.’ How does it know there’s going to…

[...] Vance is committed psychically to not seeing the third possible position in relation to the cruel power of capital: the inner logic of capital is implacable and punishing, but it can be made sense of and resisted if its agents are specified and comprehended as bearers of larger structures rat…

It is easy to tell a story about deindustrialization — as most of our politicians of both parties have for the past generation — that presents it as another episode in a perennial sequence of economic development. The old is traded out for the new once again. Those who can’t keep pace by acquiring …