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Phenomenology, the Body, Freedom, and History: Part Two

I post today with serious misgivings. As our editor here at USIH has eloquently written, “death stalks the land.” And as Anne Lamott has written here, “we are being changed.” Our shared world is, I hope, changing as people in the streets fight for freedom. We see, in our midst, the devaluation of black bodies by white ones, the callous removal from the world of so many human beings with unique worlds or styles of their own by people who believe they have some ownership, power, or ultimate fiat over others’ bodies. We have powerful institutions of control–the prison-industrial complex Read more