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“My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.”

Book:The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us

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The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us

This book delves into the dynamics of sibling relationships, examining how brothers and sisters influence each other's lives and personalities. It investigates the unique bond between siblings and its impact on personal development and societal norms. more

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Jeffrey Kluger

Jeffrey Kluger is an American writer born in 1954. He is known for his in-depth reporting on science, technology, and cultural phenomena, and has won numerous awards for his work. Kluger has served as an editor and columnist for several prominent media outlets, including Time magazine and Scientific American. His writing style is characterized by clarity, wit, and insight. more

“The university is one of various funding structures by which people who want to do theoretical work stay alive, the same way that people go to grad school, not because they think it's going to change the world but because there's no patron system anymore, and they need some scaffolding of support while they're trying to figure out how they can proceed in their lives. I think that's utterly legit. A lot of our better theorists and thinkers, that's what the university is for them.”

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Author:Joshua Clover

“Even as I've become more reticent about the political possibilities of the academic space, I want to note that students have played significant roles in insurrectionary activity across the globe for decades and centuries, and I don't think that we've crossed some threshold where that's never going to happen again. We still need to take the university space quite seriously.”

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Author:Joshua Clover

“There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not require the university for sustenance. And there are still places in the world where there is lively poetry communities largely divorced from academia. That's been destroyed in the US. In the US, famously, there were a lot of counter-spaces that lasted into the 60s and 70s, like the Black Arts Movement. They were systematically broken, often by the government, and the workshop arose in their place.”

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Author:Joshua Clover

“My point is that the alienation of theory and practice, intellectual and manual labor, is a real issue, but it's the outcome of social domination; it's sort of a mistake to blame it on the subjects of that domination.”

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Author:Joshua Clover