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T | TECHNOCRACY
It is undeniable that technology has disrupted democracy, that algorithms have begun to threaten human agency and deform identity, and that artificial intelligence, deeply...
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T | TRUTH
When we began Mutant, we set ourselves the task of entering ordinary language. Not the magisterial or prophetic, but words, ideas and concepts so...
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Q | QUESTION
Has America given up its “pursuit of happiness”? Why do we ask so many questions? "How does it feel to be a problem?" Du...
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G | GOVERNMENT
Watching the scale, speed, and lawless ease with which some of the most storied postwar American institutions have been attacked and dismantled in the...
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S | SACRIFICE
Few words in our democratic language invoke visions as paradoxical and as powerful as sacrifice. On the one hand, sacrifice recalls an archaic, ritualistic,...
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E | EQUALITY
We have so far traversed almost two dozen concepts at Mutant. And yet every word thought and spoken in these dialogues, it might be...