Meditations in an Emergency

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May 14, 2022
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“Portrait of Soviet actor Nikolay Monakhov” (1926), Boris Kustodiev

This essay is not about heroin, but I need to talk about heroin first.

The only time I did heroin was by accident. (I’ve told this story, forgive me if you’ve heard it.) In college, I studied contemporary art and politics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, through the School fo…

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