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I’ve Come Not to Praise “Cinema”
Some thoughts on criticism in the age of IP
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j.r. leonard
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May 2023

Quiet Quitting and the Future of Labor Power
Thoughts on our inability to make consistent, ordered choices.
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j.r. leonard
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April 2023

Dispatches: Old Dubai
What does it mean for somewhere to be a “real” place?
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j.r. leonard

March 2023

Artefacts: 3 Feet High and Rising
Happy belated #DeLaDay!
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j.r. leonard
The Wrong Way to Think about Wealth
“It costs a lot of money to keep this man in poverty.”
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February 2023

Dispatches: Athens
1. There is an irony to Greece’s location. We have this word balkanization, a term that came into being in the 19th century in reference to the history…
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j.r. leonard
Nervous Conditions
Thoughts on de-colonizing your post-colonialism.
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Things that Work are Just Things that Have yet to Break
Why I am and am not a brokenist.
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j.r. leonard
Dispatches: Hydra Island, Greece
It's pronounced 'EE-thra'
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j.r. leonard

October 2022

We Can’t Change Us, until Us Changes We
Some thoughts on learning lessons and broken feedback loops
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Dispatches: Spetses, Greece
1. The taxi was approaching the port of Piraeus before I felt myself relax. I’d made a rookie travel mistake, not a huge one, but it threatened to cost…
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j.r. leonard
Why Not Nepotism?
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded. Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.”
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j.r. leonard
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