perverted

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What follows is a chorus of anecdotes, artworks and historical fragments tracing the pervasive — and sometimes perverted — roots of our everyday technologies.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Reprehensible such people may be, but they are motivated by a kind of perverted idealism.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025

“That states do have the power to further their own agendas in very perverted ways.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2024

That Romantic view of the German landscape would, a century later, be perverted by totalitarian ideology — a legacy taken up by the young Anselm Kiefer in his much-debated “Occupations” photographs, from 1969.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023

The light, his head, and the wall, he thought, as though he were an initiate or some perverted eclipse created without the consent of nature.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy