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Kids scrambling for candy in Baghdad
Gregory Warner

Operation Infinite Communication

30 September 2005

Never have soldiers in a war been equipped with so much personal technology. It’s not just backpack missiles. “You literally can’t go 30 seconds without hearing a Kylie Minogue tune or Beethoven’s Symphony in C Minor emanating from someone’s pocket,” grumbled journalist Kevin Sites in his blog. More…

Marco Roth

On Torture and Parenting

5 April 2005

If parenting, even responsible parenting, made me feel like a torturer, it wasn’t exactly because I’m melodramatic or overwrought, but because the official torturers now conceive of themselves in the same terms as the parenting manuals. They, too, are technicians of the naked human personality. More…

Originally published in Issue 3: Reality Principle

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