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Carmen Petaccio

Carmen Petaccio received his MFA in fiction from Columbia University. His fiction, nonfiction, and criticism have previously appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Texas Observer, the Awl, and the Atlantic. He is currently pursuing his PhD in English at the University of Miami.

Essays & Reviews

Service-Animal Liberation

By Carmen PetaccioJune 3, 2019
Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation
Essays & Reviews

Universal Basic Bullshit

By Carmen PetaccioNovember 14, 2017
By providing the working class with the absolute bare minimum, universal basic income becomes doomsday prep for the tech billionaire
Essays & Reviews

This is Not a Simulation

By Carmen PetaccioAugust 1, 2017
The computer simulation hypothesis reveals how the American liberal elite questions everything except the insufficiency of liberalism itself
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