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Fred Pollack's collection The Beautiful Losers appears to have pretenses toward a near-universal scope. This is its ambition, to representing the exacting precarity and simultaneously overwrought decadence of life in the contemporary world: class inequality, privilege, and the primacy of material power over ideological quibbles.
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