It's short, fast, immediate and above all direct and unmediated.
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Most seductive of all is how unmediated the characters are.
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It's so fucking minimal and unmediated… but breathtakingly loud and heavy.
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Survivors can take to an unmediated space to tell their stories.
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And the look on her face is one of unmediated wonder.
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It holds the ineffable essence that can only truly be apprehended when you encounter a work of art up-close and unmediated, or as up-close and unmediated as the peculiar medium of recorded sound permits.
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That's because consumers will still have unmediated access to results, he says.
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Many people have thus been introduced to unmediated political debate, she says.
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The difference is that these are young singers who can appear unmediated.
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The filmmakers' unmediated approach (no title cards or interviews) has trade-offs.
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It's an immediate, unmediated pleasure that nonetheless may be complex and contemplative.
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A Million Little Pieces Rated R for unmediated dentistry and unruly penises.
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What's kind of funny is that…it was all very true, and unmediated.
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Never had the mediated experience of war come so close to the unmediated.
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The World Wide Web would give people free, unmediated access to the world's information.
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WikiLeaks, in Assange's ideal, is a populist machine, delivering unmediated secret information directly to readers.
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A few streaky lines on each bring to mind the unmediated expressiveness of finger-painting.
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This was Chinon for the ages: a direct, unmediated expression of people, place and culture.
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The imperatives of being an entertainment personality now require more than unmediated conversations with the audience.
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Which means that unmediated modes of seeing — of seeing art, among other things — are becoming obsolete.
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But it's also ideally suited for his style of crowd politics: unmediated, blunt and burst-like.
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Like these novels, Levinthal's paintings create a sense of unmediated access to their creator's world and interiority.
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While Muslim Americans are constantly talked about in the public sphere, we seldom hear their unmediated voices.
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Others do not, preferring the increased vibrancy and unmediated aromas and flavors that can come without sulfites.
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Ader had thus replaced live, unmediated experience with mediated reproductions, returning once again to the dilemma of representation.
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All it is is a direct, unmediated source of his thoughts and opinions, viewable on a global scale.
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Whiteness unmediated by the presence of, well, the two of us, a Korean-American and an Indian-American.
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Resistance SF was accusing Dorsey of abetting this kind of behavior by allowing the president an unmediated platform.
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In an atomized world of stationary social media, the circus offers an unmediated, kinetic community experiences in real time.
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One particular scientist claimed that this bird vision revealed the true, unmediated world, something that we humans couldn't handle.
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But his seemingly universal appeal may be his gift for making the music seem to spring to life unmediated.
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All of the time I've spent there has felt beautifully unmediated, and mostly dedicated to one kind of music.
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The multifarious works shown by these artists reflect the continuous breaking of past and present constraints, unmediated by colonialism.
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"Experience" is acquired over time, via direct contact with the world; it is firsthand, unmediated and always, inherently, embodied.
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In Eilish's digital-native universe, it's impossible to pretend that anything is unobserved or unmediated; everything is self-conscious.
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Exposure to direct sunlight, unmediated by an atmosphere, means astronauts are exposed to temperatures of up to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Adorno was suspicious of the "jargon of authenticity" and the attempt to find a self unmediated by language, pretense and power.
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Then, I tried to contrast that with the credible truth-tellers and keep their interviews very raw and unfiltered and unmediated.
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Still, several of the up-and-coming treatments — many of them not new at all — shift our focus from unmediated pill popping.
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Keeping Tom and Louise in the pub both justifies the brief running time and gets them to engage with each other unmediated.
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Mr. Zorn said Mr. Kessler and the school's provost, Tim Marshall, made him feel assured that the Stone's unmediated ethic could survive.
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This is what becomes obvious every time the sisters in Seierstad's book flicker into focus, when their voices can be heard, unmediated.
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Featuring a straightforward arrangement of robotic synths, calming whispered vocals, and crisply thwacking percussion, "Vlaamsekat!" is an experiment in unmediated kinetic energy.
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Perhaps. But the disruption caused by an unmediated exit would be far more dramatic than the economic harm caused by the Brexit vote.
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The current era of social media- and internet-driven small-donor financing has made politics more unmediated, more direct-to-voter than ever.
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And Bowie knew this was happening: The producers say he gave them "unmediated access" to his album and the images associated with it.
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With Pixel, we finally get to see behind the veil and get an unmediated experience of Google's very best shot at a phone.
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She has a special gift, given to few, of being able to deliver prose that feels like actual, flickering, unmediated, sometimes humiliating thought.
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Our sudden need for unmediated connection has brought Houseparty roaring back to life, even if Epic has neglected to update it since July.
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As Mr. Trump approached the microphone in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday, aides winced at the prospect of an unmediated president.
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If there's such a thing as designing a millennial approach for selling a product, this gets pretty close: real and unmediated, the antibrand brand.
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Merchants should still work to develop an unmediated relationship directly with their customers, encouraging them to bookmark their sites or sign up for newsletters.
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Eden cast itself as a grand social experiment and tried to make the community at the center of the series as unmediated as possible.
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Early attempts to understand "My Struggle" tended to see it as an unmediated stream, either an artless outpouring or an attempt at radical transparency.
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With the advent of the digital, there's a yearning to be in a room with other bodies, and to hear the source speak unmediated.
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This is a person who really choses to be a persona rather than to live the sort of unmediated life you and I might prefer.
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The show lets you walk right into the art galleries of interwar Rome, Milan and Turin, unmediated by later judgments of quality or historical significance.
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Instead, his personality-driven politics requires attacks on anything, whether public or private, that obstructs an unmediated path from his voice to his followers' ears.
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The two-hour rumpus frequently devolved into unmediated bouts of shouting, name-calling and pleas to the moderators for chances to respond to the latest insult.
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Social media, with its aura of unmediated authenticity, has revivified that myth — even, importantly, for the stars who don't use social media — in the 21st century.
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Both grew out of raw, unmediated experience, and both are saturated in a visceral reality that reaches beyond marital complaint into the territory of existential testimony.
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Contact with violence through any media can lead to what is called vicarious traumatization — and may, for some people, be more upsetting than an unmediated experience.
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Regardless of the occasional danger of a stain, you want to liberate those couches so you can feel the unmediated textures and angles of the upholstery.
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It is mostly a bare-bones texting app in which most conversations are private and unmediated by any kind of algorithm meant to amp up engagement.
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Candidates face each other -- unmediated by aides and Twitter -- and American voters, just on the other side of the camera, get a look at who they are.
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I've been exhorted by my co-workers and friends to just unplug and experience the beach and the sun unmediated by technology, to disconnect, to just relax.
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Sharkey, unlike many of his peers on the left, regards the great decline as an unmediated good, benefitting everyone, and, above all, the poorest and most vulnerable.
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The unmediated presence of humans in the physical environment is one subject of Cecily Brown's work and is a source of its striking flavor of moral ambiguity.
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His increasingly immoderate and unmediated output seemed to channel a larger shift in a country that was starting to look more desperate and less sure of itself.
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Not because they're suddenly enlightened, but because the experience of spending so much time in an unmediated encounter with one's self, with no distractions, is terrifyingly intense.
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Their direct, "one-shot" approach to application and materials, and the employment of natural forces like gravity and absorption reflect his own unmediated response to the world.
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If you were to experience your own femaleness in its pure unmediated state, then you would just be completely flattened out and overwhelmed by the force of experience.
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In some ways these stories are more intriguing than mystical experiences that confirm or inspire strong religious belief, because they come to us unmediated by any theological apparatus.
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For Hobbes that was one of the lessons of the ancient world: when politics is based on unmediated human interaction it ends up as a violent free-for-all.
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Each one is as humdrum, and specifically individual, as you or I. Everything has the shimmer of unmediated transparency, as if the performers were conduits for thought made visible.
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Lapid rejects, in other words, the claim to an unmediated reality so often lauded in the Dardennes's approach, but in doing so, he reveals the truths masked by reality itself.
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One part, near the end of the press conference, is worth quoting at length to give an unmediated sample of the president's thinking: REPORTER, Associated Press: President Trump, you first.
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It's also unfortunately created an unmediated real-time distribution channel in Facebook Live that can appeal to people who want an audience for violence they inflict on themselves or others.
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The companies sell tourists on the promise of a voyage rather than a vacation, an experience largely unmediated by the Western hospitality industry and unlikely to populate many Instagram feeds.
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Mr. Barber was an academic and public intellectual who argued, with missionary zeal, the virtues of decentralized democracy, or "unmediated self-government by an engaged citizenry," as he once wrote.
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Unmediated footage can be edited polemically, as in Frederick Wiseman's films, but "Boone" seems resigned to sidelong glances, confident that merely observing farm life, including some spunky animals, is enough.
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A Notes apology, like an Instagram selfie, gives the audience a feeling of unique access to the "real" star, seemingly unmediated by the polishing hands of publicists, editors, and photoshoppers.
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Photographs made a claim for unmediated truth—"this building I believe to be the first…to have drawn its own picture," wrote Talbot—and they could be cheaply reproduced and circulated.
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Where celebrity gossip used to be disseminated through weekly tabloids, now we have 24/7, 360-degree access, some of which is genuinely unmediated, and some of which only feels that way.
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In eschewing claims to an unmediated reality, Synonyms reveals truths about French society often masked by reality itself, while Young Ahmed obscures crucial systemic injustices in Belgium under the guise of realism.
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The rise of social media allowed people to talk about politics in an unmediated way, reading and saying things that would never have been seen on broadcast television or read in newspapers.
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Cinema was a trick, almost like Renaissance perspective: a two-dimensional event that represented three-dimensionality; it created the sense of direct, unmediated life, whereas, in fact, everything in it was mediated.
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In an eloquent passage towards the end of his book, Dumbadze gets to the very heart of the work's allure and its enduring appeal: Nothing is as unmediated as the end of life.
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The emblems of this season of unease and unpredictability have been relayed in the jittery, jerky images of cellphone cameras and video streaming apps that tell only an unmediated fraction of the story.
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Those publishers still able to capture a direct relationship with their users unmediated by the platforms will greatly benefit from that connection, particularly if they are able to make a subscription business work.
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Movies can't — or at least typically don't — convey the unmediated, vivid wretchedness of life, and stage actors and theater audiences have a different pact than screen actors and at-home or cinema audiences.
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The two things that the funeral industries in Western, English-speaking countries are most terrified of are letting families near the dead bodies at all in any sort of unmediated way, and technology.
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The spread of presidential primaries has in turn encouraged Americans to blur categorical distinctions between party-nomination and general-election procedures and to presume that unmediated participation sets the benchmark for legitimacy in both.
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But fandom is never just about unmediated ecstasy over a performer; it is also about the creation and performance of the fan's own identity, making themselves visible through whatever technologies are available to them.
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He is among a number of young queer artists like Salman Toor, Yuki James, Craig Calderwood, and Logan T. Sibrel, who visualize life unmediated by social media and unconcerned with what is algorithmically pleasing.
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If anything, his unmediated presence has enabled him to connect more deeply with a fan base that appreciates his unfettered oddity for what it is, a weirdness uniquely suited to the medium of Twitter.
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You highlight how unmediated these laws are, to the point that we have six year-olds who use inappropriate language or people who suffer from autism or learning disabilities ending up on these lists.
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The Trump campaign is the most recent beneficiary of the collapse of once-dominant organizations: The void these eroding institutions have left was filled by an unmediated, populist nationalism tailor-made for the internet age.
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So for Times journalists tasked with covering the president, his Twitter feed, which offers an often unmediated glimpse into his frustrations, his whims and even his television-watching schedule, demands a special kind of attention.
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The core argument of Donald Trump's campaign and presidency is that he is a more direct conduit for the will of the American people, unmediated by the presumed biases of news organizations, political parties, or government institutions.
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Mr. Riera, the wine director who came to Frenchette from Contra and Wildair, has built a list full of wonderful discoveries, great values and the sort of direct, unmediated experiences that characterize natural wines at their best.
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Scent is the most direct of the senses, smells reach our brains unmediated, and perhaps that is why olfactory experiences cut so deep — bringing us not just to a secondhand memory of something, but seemingly straight back to it.
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This is an area where we might suffer from a surfeit of democracy: by losing interlocutors such as Rose, who could offer reassurance or mockery when we were at our most insecure, we've been left alone with our unmediated feelings.
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In these drawings — equal parts pared-down formalism and uninhibited automatism — we see the artist making unmediated contact with his medium, an unsettlingly urbane howl in which the words teeming elsewhere in the show seem to catch in his throat.
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Head to the annual Red Hook Jazz Festival, now in its 10th year, which delivers music in an unmediated and unpretentious environment: the small neighborhood park known as Urban Meadow, where grass sometimes grows tall and there's really no stage.
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Tarantino deploys a great deal of wry irony in Once Upon a Time, but Cliff's savage (if self-defensive) murder of Manson's young followers is depicted with an unmediated directorial glee that seems to speak to a larger, more troubling rage.
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I think that if he came through in an unmediated way with the Republicans and if they were not slanging him all the time, he would have had great potential to not only be a charismatic leader but [be] one of great substance.
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It can tip into folksiness (as in "Old Folks Home," which compiles stories of residents in a state-run retirement complex) or fail to suspend our disbelief (as in "Forest of Midwives," an unmediated account of the animist practices of Amazonian "baby catchers").
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It seems perverse to use VR and remove the wow factor, but in this case, sheer amazement comes from the unmediated glimpse into the life of a human who faces some of the challenges we all share, or at least one day might.
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That is why on #J20 we invite our communities to join us inside the museum, which we demand function as public space, to declare our common values, to make undeniable our demands, and to render our truths unmediated and unavailable for contortion, interpretation, or abstraction.
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For the fifth year in a row, Donald Trump tops our list, demonstrating what happens when the most powerful person on the planet is given an unmediated channel to broadcast his every thought, and uses it largely to lie, spin, insult, threaten, distract, and boast.
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For readers who are somewhat new to wine in its seemingly limitless variety, Wine School offers an opportunity to experience it in a natural setting, with a meal, and to form their own immediate, unmediated impressions, which I invite you to share by commenting at nytimes.com/food.
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When Brian Lamb launched C-SPAN in 1979, he set into motion a multi-decade experiment in news media that was both maximalist and minimalist: wall-to-wall coverage of the American government, but unmediated by actual journalists, allowing us, the public, to decipher and decode.
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But this seal of authenticity is the key to the Bernie brand, the idea that what the public sees — the crotchety impatience; the refusal to moderate or change; the dandruff-flecked-sport-coat-crooked-specs-flyaway-hair blur of the man — is the genuine, unmediated Bernie.
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Ms. Phair was defiant and sexual and unapologetic and vulnerable at once — a kind of girl-next-door casually swinging a sledgehammer at rock 'n' roll as we knew it, singing about sex, love and power in a direct, unmediated way that few women before her had.
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Twitter, which launched in 2006 but has grown to become a crucial part of any 2016 campaign, gives journalists like me quick and easy access to something it used to take hard legwork to get — direct and unmediated takes on the campaign from rank-and-file voters.
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At this point, given the layers of quotation and allusion, it seems silly to treat David's image as if it were, as Percy might have had it, some flimsy representation standing between himself and an unmediated world, or a private snow-globe reminder of that stretch of Interstate.
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Because it is an article of their faith that politics are bad and the unmediated encounter with data is good, internet prophets will fail to see the political implications of what they are trying to do, for in their eyes political implications are what they are doing away with.
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Beyond the competition, VENN is still rolling the dice on whether the new generation of consumers wants to have a more produced, mediated entertainment network rather than continue to gravitate to the unmediated experience of watching live streams of their peers do the things that they're doing themselves.
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But when it's just you, this unmediated experience with someone else, there's this incredible middle ground between the comfort of knowing it's low stakes and the fact that you are giving someone a window into who you really are, without it being artificially accelerated in things like chat rooms and IM and Tinder.
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Here is one of the lyrics in its entirety: These tallied scraps float like glass skiffs quietly for love or pity and all that What an idea in such a time as ours Pip among the Pleiads The "scraps" are Howe's poems, transparent and silent so as to afford her readers unmediated access to revelation.
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If a key strategy of historical Abstract Expressionism was to trim the lag time between impulse and response — the belief being that doing so would allow form to emerge from the subconscious, unmediated by culture, the "literary," or the artist's internal editors — then Copperwhite's calculatedly eye-grabbing tricks with the brush are in quite the opposite spirit.
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She doesn't much buy into the prevailing criticism, though, that the news media have "enabled" Trump by giving him an unmediated bullhorn — he was a "ratings bonanza" that cable TV couldn't afford to miss — although she thinks the networks should stop allowing him to do "pajama" interviews over the phone instead of insisting that he show up in-studio.
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The printing press fractured the monopoly on worldly and spiritual knowledge long held by the Roman Catholic Church, bringing the discoveries of Erasmus and the polemics of Martin Luther to a broad audience and fueling the Protestant Reformation, which held that ordinary believers—individuals, who could read their own Bibles and see their own faces in their own mirrors—might have unmediated contact with God.
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For Jonathan Meese: Dr. Trans-Form-Erz, the artist's first exhibition at the David Nolan Gallery, Meese's self-made world is this time contained within a relatively streamlined installation, one that offers the viewer an opportunity that can be hard to come by in his practice: unmediated contact with the imagery, with attention given to the artist as a painter and collagist whose work has developed over time.
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This is in part because the boat goes very fast, so even if you have a lid, it's not worth it (you really have to pound that drink), but mostly because what I liked about the ride was the purity of being out on the water and in the sun and having an experience that was enough on its own, without alcohol or my phone or even my friends, all those things I use to protect me from being unmediated and exposed most of the day.
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Latour had made a career questioning "scientific certainty" and worried that his critical "weapons" had been "smuggled" to the other side: Entire Ph.D. programs are still running to make sure that good American kids are learning the hard way that facts are made up, that there is no such thing as natural, unmediated, unbiased access to truth, that we are always prisoners of language, that we always speak from a particular standpoint, and so on, while dangerous extremists are using the very same argument of social construction to destroy hard-won evidence that could save our lives.
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