Chris Nealon
Chris Nealon is Chair of the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of two books of criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (Duke, 2001) and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century (Harvard, 2011), and three books of poetry: The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions, 2004),Plummet (Edge Books, 2009) and Heteronomy (Edge, 2014). He lives in Washington, DC.
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In Germany, political figures were impersonated on #TikTok.
In Colombia, a woman was able to masquerade as another candidate’s daughter.
In the Philippines, misinformation helped the son of the country’s former dictator prevail in the presidential race.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/business/media/on-tiktok-election-misinformation.html
"We don’t know what it is possible for us to feel until we are shown what it is possible for us to imagine"--@adamgopnik in The @NewYorker
@SalmanRushdie and the Power of Words https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/salman-rushdie-and-the-power-of-words #SalmanRushdie
A powerful call from @PENamerica’s @SuzanneNossel urging us to understand that the brutal attempt on #SalmanRushdie’s life is an attack against the freedom to write, read, and think. #wordsmorepowerfulthanknives https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/13/salman-rushdies-entire-life-has-been-an-act-of-defiance
