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Concerned Glance Toward a Possible Future Past

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Concerned Glance Toward Possible Future Past

ROUSSEAU: Intriguing scene, the concerned glance of the woman makes me wonder what's happening out the frame.

VOLTAIRE: Wonder what they are seeing if it wasn't the driver.

ROUSSEAU: Maybe too much is being left to our imagination about other players but the portrait of the young woman is very vibrant. The eyes of the person in the vehicle and the eyes of the woman are really appealing to me.

VOLTAIRE: This would have been a great shot if shifted 30 cm to the left side. The driver smiling to the camera tones the intensity of the mood/situation down. The chopped face in the left is a concern but the rest is good and a fair amount of tension is present in the frame.

ROUSSEAU: I actually love the details on the man’s hands and how, in the absence of his face, they lead us to construct this character of the story.

VOLTAIRE: Somehow, the apprehensive look on the girl’s face gives the person inside the car an expression slightly mad. Strange tension here.

[IN UNISON, slightly higher register, trace of anxiety, feeling the speaker has only limited awareness, as of chorus in Greek play]: Intriguing scene, the concerned glance of the woman makes us wonder what's happening out the frame.

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Rousseau's Fingers in the Lake

#Reuters reminds us who 3rd wheel was in famous #Trump Hotel photo op during Sec of State puppet show. Last week simply Reince and repeat.: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 31 July 2017

Can't get fired if your job hasn't officially started yet #Scaramuccci: image via Jemele Hill @jemelehill, 31 July 2017

As #Scaramucci was escorted from the White House, it was almost as if the bushes were laughing at him... : image via Diane N Sevenay @Diane7_A, 31 July 2017

Old man and his daughter on the mountain #Arizona: image via John McCain @SenJohnMcCain, 30 July 2017

#Bulgaria A woman collects tobacco leaves near Kukuryak southeast of the Bulgarian capital Sofia Photo @dilkoff #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 31 July 2017

In this Saturday, July 29, 2017, file photo, a man walks in front of a public TV screen broadcasting news of North Korea’s test-firing of its second intercontinental ballistic missile, in Tokyo. North Korea on Friday test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew longer and higher than the first according to its wary neighbors, leading analysts to conclude that a wide swath of the U.S., including Los Angeles and Chicago, is now within range of Pyongyang’s weapons. The ticker above reads: “North Korea fired ICBM missile.”: photo by Eugene Hoshiko, File via AP, 29 July 2017

@dougmillsnyt took this photo of Anthony Scaramucci on Monday as John Kelly, the new White House chief of staff, met with President Trump.: image via The New York Times @nytimes, 31 July 2017

Former WH Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci is seen in the Oval Office as @realDonaldTrump meets w/ new Chief of Staff Gen. Kelly: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 31 July 2017

#President @realDonaldTrump meets with new #whitehouse chief of staff #johnkelly in he ovaloffice: image via Evan Vucci @evanvucci, 31 July 2017

Good lord this NBC news photo. What is this, Reservoir Derps? This pic will never be superseded.: image via Josh Marshall @joshtpm, 30 July 2017

@realDonaldTrump meets with his new Chief of Staff Gen. John F. Kelly in the Oval Office.: image via Doug Mills @DougMillsnyt, 31 July 2017

#Morocco is being roiled by protests, the biggest since the Arab Spring of 2011. Photo @JColonToscano: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 31 July 2017

Normalisation

Intriguing scene, the concerned glance of the woman makes us wonder what's happening out the frame. Now the American middle classes had lost everything they were supposed to have gained in the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the whatevers, and the and so on. Acceptance of normalisation ensured that the money arrangements would remain secure and the protective weaponry would grow ever more massive. No one would now dare go anywhere without publicly displaying their security badges. Accretion replaced inflation as... and so on. These classes, refigured as liberal and academic elites... and so on. The painful first decades of the twenty-first century passed and now they were increasingly impoverished and deprived of their privileges; they gradually lost their self-confidence and self-respect. Finally, out of their misery, they developed the habits of unquestioning loyalty that allowed them to think of themselves as the embodiment of a higher idea...

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#Venezuela Maduro claims vote win, opposition vows protests Photo @rschemidt: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 31 July 2017

A demonstrator waves a flag with a crossed out image of President Nicolas Maduro during a tribute to those killed during protests against his administration, in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 24, 2017.: photo by Fernando Llano/AP, 24 June 2017

#Venezuela Ten killed in Venezuela vote unrest: prosecutors #AFP Photo @LeoRamPhoto: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 30 July 2017

Anti-government protesters run from advancing Venezuelan Bolivarian National Guard officers on the first day of a 48-hour general strike in protest of government plans to rewrite the constitution, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 26, 2017.: photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP, 26 July 2017

#Iraq A member of Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service walks in the rubble near the destroyed ancient leaning minaret in Mosul. Photo @safinphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 31 July 2017

Rousseau's Fingers

#Switzerland Lightning illuminates the night sky over Cully surrounded by the vineyard terraces of Lavaux on the bank of Leman Lake. Photo @Coffrinews: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 31 July 2017

#Afghanistan an elderly Afghan man with his hair dyed with henna looks on as he eats ice cream on the outskirts of Jalalabad. Photo @Noorullah700: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 31 July 2017

GAZA CITY - Palestinian children play near their home at al-Shatee refugee camp. Photo @mohmabed: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 31 July 2017

#Gaza City. A young boy holds a #Hamas flag next to Palestinian militants in the district of Bani Suheila. By @cmcgrath_photo Getty: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 31 July 2017

A Kurdish man mourns as he sits next to the grave of his friend who was killed while fighting against Islamic State militants in Raqqa, at a cemetery in Kobani, Syria, Friday, July 28, 2017.: photo by Hussein Malla/AP 28 July 2017

A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighter runs in front of a damaged building as he crosses a street on the front line, in Raqqa city, Syria, Thursday, July 27, 2017.: photo by Hussein Malla/AP, 27 July 2017

Farmers wearing straw hats take part in a march protesting the North American Free Trade Agreement in Mexico City, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Farmers wearing straw hats take part in a march protesting the North American Free Trade Agreement in Mexico City, Wednesday, July 26, 2017.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 26 July 2017

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Farmers wearing straw hats take part in a march protesting the North American Free Trade Agreement in Mexico City, Wednesday, July 26, 2017.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 26 July 2017

Voltaire's Finger

In this photo made with a long exposure, cars drive by as lightning strikes during thunderstorms in Oberursel, Germany, near Frankfurt on Saturday, July 22, 2017.: photo by Jan Eifert/dpa via AP, 22 July 2017

Rescue workers looking for survivors watch as debris falls from a collapsed building in a densely populated neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, July 26, 2017.: photo by Sunday Alamba/AP, 26 July 2017

Residents pull a rope in an improvised raft to cross a swollen river caused by tropical storm Gorio on the outskirts of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, July 26, 2017.: photo by Aaron Favila/AP, 26 July 2017

A billowy layer of fog hovers over Webb Lake on a chilly morning where the temperature dropped into the mid-40s, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Weld, Maine.: photo by Robert F. Bukaty/AP, 26 July 2017