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Contar la guerra sin glorificarla: la apuesta de «La Odisea» de Christopher Nolan

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By Nicholas Powers
| esferacomunicacional.ar
Nicholas Powers Profesor de Literatura Inglesa. Escribe regularmente desde 2011 para medios de comunicación independientes como Truthout y The Independent. La Odisea de Christopher Nolan comienza con una toma del bardo Demódoco —interpretado por el rapero Travis Scott— golpeando un bastón contra una mesa para marcar el ritmo. La película luego muestra a Sinón, un soldado aqueo frente al Caballo de Troya, interpretado por el actor transgénero Elliot Page.
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Is There a Future Without Incarceration? Abolitionist Art Shows Us One.

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By Nicholas Powers
| The Appeal Verified
This story was co-published with Truthout. I banged my head on the bars. It was 2:00 am. I was in a Brooklyn jail. Under the fluorescent light, other men slept on the bench. Each one of us was arrested for so-called quality-of-life crimes like drinking a beer on a stoop, blasting a radio, or being unhoused. I shook the bars again. The walls closed in on me. I had a hard time breathing. When I got out the next day, neighbors told me their lockdown stories.
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From MLK to the Rise of Bernie and AOC, Jesse Was The Bridge

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By Nicholas Powers
| The Indypendent Verified
Mom was broke, and we hadn’t eaten for days. At night, I opened the fridge, nothing. A few minutes later, I opened it. Still, nothing. She boiled water, added sugar and we drank to ease the hunger. We got in the car and she drove, anywhere, fast. The street lights throbbed in our eyes like the pulse in our necks. We struggled in the 80’s. We were hungry. Mom sat at the table, holding utility bills like a bad poker hand. We ran out of gas money. We walked a lot. She could not ask for help. She was too proud.
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