By the twentieth century, it was a "politically unmanageable... frontier land, where inner yearnings for freedom, wild exploitation, and everyday violence have competed for domination," as the historian Hiroaki Kuromiya describes it, in his book "Freedom and Terror in the Donbas".
In addition to the high-profile nature of the hack, it was noteworthy because of its cause: exploitation of internet-connected everyday devices such as webcams and digital recorders.
The structural criterion for this emerging everyday culture phenomenon is the successful exploitation of geothermal resources.
"Lonely Hearts" adds the dimensions — of everyday life, of moral accountability — that nastily foreshortened exploitation movies like "Honeymoon Killers" leave out.
If the Weinstein story and its aftermath have shown us anything, it is that sexual exploitation and harassment is part of everyday experience for girls and women no matter where they live in the world.
The violent sexual assault, which is the scene that opens the film, sets the tone for a dark exploration in the ways in which exploitation and victimization can be internalized and later manifested in everyday life.
Things shall only change, though, when political leaders, the business sector, the legal system, etc, change their ways – when corruption, exploitation of others and the lack of opportunities are obliterated from everyday life.
Its subject, everyday bravery and nobility in a system built on risk and too often based on mutual exploitation, is delivered straight.
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