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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

by Maggie Nelson

Nelson interrogates the concept of freedom through four lenses—art, sex, drugs, and climate—examining how we understand liberation, constraint, and care in contemporary life. With her characteristic blend of memoir, criticism, and theory, she challenges simplistic notions of autonomy and reveals the complex interdependencies that shape human experience.

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