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In defence of snobbery
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Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, leading philosophers of the group of
researchers known as the Frankfurt school, defined their idea of the culture industry in their
landmark 1947 book Dialectic of Enlightenment. The gist of...
The link between music and our memories
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When I was visiting my cousins this summer in Tours, France, my favourite overplayed
song was “Please Do Not Lean” by Daniel Caesar featuring BADBADNOTGOOD.
When this song comes up on my playlist now, it brings...
Come, let’s talk
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Throughout the past several years, UMSU has been criticized for not listening to students.
When I ran to become UMSU president, I heard these concerns and wanted to do better,
but I knew finding a solution...
The joy of Chrismukkah
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Chrismukkah. The intersection of Christmas and Hanukkah. Few people get more than
one aspect of the holiday season. I am one of them.
As a Jew, my family celebrates Hanukkah every year. The celebration of lights!
Commemorating...
‘Going woke’? Or just not straight and white?
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I recently saw Disney’s Strange World in theatres. After watching the movie, I went to
Twitter to see what others were saying, and whether my opinions on the movie made me
some kind of social outcast....
This is the virtual bad place
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When Elon Musk purchased Twitter this year for US$44 billion, the ship-jumping began,
with many Twitter users urging others to switch platforms.
What is perhaps being reached for, yet overlooked, in Musk’s disastrous takeover of the
social...
Colonizing outer space ignores problems on Earth
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The promotional video for NASA’s Artemis I mission depicts a return to the moon as being
about learning how to live on other planets, in order to venture further out into space. To me,
it sounds...
