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Issue 2: Deinstitutionalization

Bodiless Bodies: The Rise of Para-Institutions
Civil society was once occupied by popular forces that could function as a bulwark against both capitalist marketization and state authoritarianism…
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Who Invited Robert?
Robert’s Rules of Order were designed to make large organizations of members with disparate interests and customs functional. No surprise that they have…
 • Damage Magazine and Taylor Hines
Barflies
No matter what you're at the Apple Genius Bar for, it is a bewildering, sci-fi-sleek, calamity where you know nothing of your fate, and your torturers…
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Aging Advocacy
The complicated relationship between Medicare and AARP unveils the mixed incentives of consumer advocacy groups and the contradictory nature of…
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Odd Man Out
The Odd Fellows were once the largest fraternal organization in the United States. Much like other such associations, their decline has been rapid and…
 • Damage Magazine and Benjamin Y. Fong
Going Beyond the Politics of Institutional Racism
“Institutional racism” was a flawed framework for understanding inequality when it was first introduced by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton in…
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Professional Populists in the Culture Wars
The cultural studies revolution rejected universalism and embraced popular culture. This has been a disaster for the humanities and social sciences, but…
 • Damage Magazine and Catherine Liu
What was Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization?
An interview with sociologist and historian of psychiatry Andrew Scull about the history and legacy of psychiatric deinstitutionalization.
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Making the Present the Enemy of the Future
Kensington, Philadelphia has a social problem. Harm reduction policies won’t fix it.
 • Damage Magazine and Dustin "Dino" Guastella
From ADHD to Let Me Be: Taking Control of Time
Faced with the demands of a hyper-accelerated world, people are increasingly looking for an escape. But freedom won’t be found in withdrawal—from work…
 • Damage Magazine and Alex Hochuli
The Utility of Utilities
Climate activists are no fans of electric utilities. But the market-based alternatives that they often prefer—for rolling out renewable technologies…
 • Damage Magazine, Matt Huber, and Fred Stafford
What's in Our Second Print Issue, “Deinstitutionalized”
What does it mean to live in a deinstitutionalized society today, and why do contemporary institutions so often fail to make up for what has been lost?
 • Benjamin Y. Fong
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