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The More Fashionable Berlin Conference

In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day- Angelina Jolie I used to assume after watching the movie Blood Diamonds [sic] that diamonds … Continue reading

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The Enlightened People.

The intellectual spoke the truth to those who had yet to see it, in the name of those who were forbidden to speak the truth: he was conscience, consciousness and eloquence. -M. Foucault (http://libcom.org/library/intellectuals-power-a-conversation-between-michel-foucault-and-gilles-deleuze) It would be unfair for me … Continue reading

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