Category: Social Theory
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the humans I know and love, this machinery is not worthy of them
It’s clearly time for me to start reading Zadie Smith.
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kicking the habit
It’s idealistic to fall for the story that academia tells about itself, but it is not naive.
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all yer dreams are made
Oasi-mandius, king of kings, &c &c &c.
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less restructuring than expected
Rowing-machine revelations and dental discoveries.
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plot as instinct
I know that I should probably be adding my voice to the chorus of Very Concerned People being Very Concerned about the popularity of conspiracy theories, but somehow I’m just not that worried—not least, perhaps, because I went through a period of being very into them myself, through the late Nineties and into the early…