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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Decoding Mike Benz (8-18-24)
01:00 NYT: How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/politics/trump-disinformation-2024-social-media.html06:00 Mike Benz on Tucker Carlson, https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/175852999328020503910:00 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15663615:00 Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1569701:10:00 David … Continue reading
Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars
David Hepworth writes in this 2017 book: * Rolling Stone , once the organ of the alternative society, was about to move from San Francisco to New York in order to be nearer its real customers, the agencies that bought … Continue reading
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Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Mark McGurl writes in this 2021 book: * all fiction is genre fiction in that it caters to a generic desire. * With its by – all – accounts absolute requirement of a happy ending for it to even receive … Continue reading
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The Rise of Writing: Redefining Mass Literacy
Deborah Brandt writes in her 2014 book: * Writing has always been used for work, production, output, earning, profit, publicity, practicality, record-keeping, buying, and selling. Increasingly, writing itself is the product that is bought and sold, as it embodies knowledge, … Continue reading
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Invasion is a structure not an event (8-16-24)
Adam Kirsch writes in the WSJ: The most frequently quoted sentence in the literature of settler colonialism is from the Australian scholar Patrick Wolfe: “Invasion is a structure, not an event.” Wolfe was referring specifically to the British settlement of … Continue reading
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