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Dark Angel: The Dystopian 2010’s, When You And I Were Young

April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1999 wto protests, 1999 wto protests in seattle, anachronox, antiglobalization, battle for seattle, blade runner, culture, cyberpunk, dark angel, deus ex, drones, dystopian, dystopian fiction, dystopian future, emergence, flying drones, ford taurus, genetic engineering, globalization, google glass, hanna, havana, james cameron, jenny durkan, jessica alba, johnny mnemonic, max guevara, minority report, neo-noir, nikita, noir, old cars in havana, omikron, police drone, police drones, police state, pop culture, seattle, smart car, space needle, stranger things, television, television media, the matrix, titanic, tv, world trade organization, WTO, wto protests, wto protests in seattle

Jessica Alba’s breakout role in Dark Angel, which has largely been forgotten amid our current golden age of high-quality TV series, surrounded some prophetic visions of a dystopian near-future.

Adaptation & Resilience Public Health Culture & Language

Handbuilt: Gratitude and Resilience In The Strangest Year On Record

November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments american history, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, covid19 diaries, culture, Detroit, historiography, history, hubbard farms, mexicantown, native and indigenous peoples, southwest detroit, thanksgiving, thanksgiving dinner, windsor

LAST NIGHT, MY PARTNER AND I SAT AT THE DINING TABLE THAT CAME INCLUDED WITH OUR 1895 HOUSE in Southwest

Historic preservation Culture & Language Travel

Postcards from Dubuque: Then and Now

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments american history, anamosa, culture, dubuque, fox, gujarati hotel mafia, historic preservation, iowa, language, meskwaki, mississippi, native and indigenous peoples, quebec, quebecois, sac, sauk, upper mississippi, us history

A parable of delicious mini-donuts and– stories about those who came before the mini-donuts.

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Handbuilt Summer Reading List

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments accounting, banking, black capitalism, books, capitalism, corporations, culture, economic justice, fractional reserve banking, free market, markets, neoliberalism, policy, private equity, racial justice, reading, reading list, reading lists

Okay. You’re locked down, quarantined, or unemployed. Stop scrolling mindlessly through the feed and read! It’s a great opportunity to

Canada Trip II – Montréal and Language

September 17, 2019September 27, 2019 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments culture, french, language, montreal, quebec, quebecois, rene levesque

I arrived punctually in Montreal, relatively un-traumatized from a twelve hour train trip. I fell asleep for a power nap