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O | OCCUPATION
“We lost our home, which means the familiarity of daily life. We lost our occupation, which means the confidence that we are of some...
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R | RIGHT & RESENTMENT
Mutant’s first episode was an archaeology of democratic anger, and as we publish our 13th, almost midway through the Roman alphabet, we return to...
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H | HOPE
Few words in our political lexicon are as fragile and as paradoxical as hope. Is hope a privilege of the smug? Or is it...
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H | HUMAN
What does it mean to be human? This is a question at once timeless, yet often posited as an abstraction: as though being human...
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P | PURITY & PUNISHMENT
Nothing frames our thinking at Mutant — the very name we have given this dictionary of concepts — more fundamentally than the human drive...
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B | BABRI & BODY
“There is nothing mere about symbols”, says the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. And “there is nothing mere about the struggle for architecture, about the strife...