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The carrion-eaters

Sam Kriss · 17 Aug 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Put any person under enough concentrated public scrutiny and you will find something that seems to justify having scrutinised them

    Their wordsPut anyone you like in the machine and turn it on-vicar, imam, sweet old widower tearing up bread for the ducks with his trembling hands-and before long you will discover something that retroactively justifies putting them in the machine.

  2. Our reading

    The first wave of woke was crazy because of the social function of its beliefs, which let people feel good about punishing someone, not because of their content

    Their wordsWhat made woke 1 crazy wasn't the content of the beliefs but their social function, which was to let you feel good about doing the thing they just did to Jason Arday.

  3. Our reading

    The university is a literate institution in a postliterate world, run by people who no longer share the way of being it was built to protect

    Their wordsIt's over; the academy is a literate institution marooned in a postliterate world, governed and staffed by people who no longer have anything to do with whatever way of being these places were once built to protect.

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