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Michaela Hulstyn

Michaela Hulstyn is a writer and teacher at Stanford University where she is the Associate Director of the Structured Liberal Education program. Her work on modern and contemporary literature and film has been published in Modern Fiction Studies, Philosophy and Literature and Modern Language Notes, among other places. She is the author of Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness (2022), which explores rival theories on transcending the self. Sometimes, she climbs. 
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    The Spectacle

    “The ubiquity of the bystander video in contemporary protest culture has brought videos of police executions into the mainstream. Despite the fact that it’s possible to use generative AI to create videos of basically anything now, these witness videos remain…