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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Why Do Some People End Their Sentences In ‘Yeah’?
From Quora: “Most British people don’t say Yeah at the end of a sentence. It would be most prevalent in certain dialects in South Eastern England. It is used as a affirmation of the sentence it ends, or the series … Continue reading
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I’ve Started Following The Women’s World Cup
Normally, I pay minimal attention to women’s sports because the product is so inferior to what 14 year old boys can produce, let alone men. This is true for soccer. A high school boys team can and has thrashed the … Continue reading
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Cruel Optimism
Gabriel Winant writes for N+1 in 2015: Affect theory’s center of gravity is found near this question of happiness. If there is one contemporary scholar who looms over the field, it is Lauren Berlant, an English professor at the University … Continue reading
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How Livestreaming Made Me A Better Man
Dispensing your opinions online tends to degenerate most people as they develop an e-personality that corrodes their real life. I started blogging in 1997 and I’ve experienced my share of the perils of the e-personality (carelessness, impulsiveness, thoughtlessness, self-aggrandizement, audience … Continue reading
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A Fan’s Life: The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat by Paul Campos
William Davis writes in the May 18, 2023 LROB: * Adam Smith’s famous metaphor of an ‘invisible hand’ guiding markets was one of the Enlightenment’s many appeals to a fictional outsider, supposed to be a barometer of value. Since then, … Continue reading
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