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Apocalyptic New Jersey Sites (or the Statue of Liberty's Evil Twin)

Apocalyptic New Jersey Sites (or the Statue of Liberty's Evil Twin)

On the Black Tom explosion of 1916 and the practice of building a psychogeographic map of your state

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May 22, 2023
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My time in New Jersey (c. 2014-present) has been defined by a preoccupation with the apocalypse and civilizational collapse. This is not to blame New Jersey in particular, but that era, the end of the Obama administration, the horrific Trump administration, and the dysfunctional Biden administration, has been an era of advancing dread and anxiety for mo…

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