2014
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FUNNY WOMEN #124: Our Representatives Are Currently Helping Other Customers
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Weekly Geekery
Victorians: The original futurists. Can Sony stop the leaks? Can social media stop vitriol and still maintain freedom of speech? Should you go to jail for your Facebook profile? What a podcast teaches us about memory. Wikipedia is becoming as…
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Ourselves and Our World
Sensational headlines declaiming the death of the humanities often misunderstand what the humanities actually are. Paul A. Kottman explains that the practice of analyzing texts doesn’t just teach us how to think; it creates new ways of thinking: Whatever we…
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Subjective Objectivism
For the Atlantic, John Paul Rollert attends an Objectivist conference in Las Vegas to explore the legacy of Ayn Rand’s work. While for many Objectivists the philosophy “begins, and ends, with the word of Ayn Rand,” others question the “amenability” of Rand’s…
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Ride with the Devil
What I should have learned back then, but did not, and in fact took at least another twenty years to fully learn, is that such claims are not at all about “demonic power,” “demonic possession,” or even “the Devil,” but…
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Rainey Royal by Dylan Landis
Christen Leppla reviews Rainey Royal by Dylan Landis to day in Rumpus Books.
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Ways of Speaking
In his seminal book Ways of Seeing, critic and novelist John Berger deconstructed the framework of presuppositions through which we view visual images. Over at the Guardian, he reminds us that language is also a process, one in which layers…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy Tuesday, let’s talk about books bound in flesh. Get ready for the Manhattan Project National Park. San Francisco’s most famous shipwreck has finally been found/mapped/appreciated. How the Victorians invented the future. As it turns out, condensed milk is kind…
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Give the Gift of The Rumpus This Holiday Season!
There’s still time to give the gift of The Rumpus this holiday season!
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Blatant Hybrid
Over at The Believer, Ratik Asokan chats with Claudia Rankine about Citizen, art, and how we’re constantly updating our principles: We will always fail each other. That goes without saying. The question is, what happens next? If failing is then…
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The Evolution of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are a fundamental part of the human experience, an extension of the oral traditions of the earliest storytellers, and part of culture that becomes internalized. In part, the importance of fairy tales is their ability to change with…
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TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #263
SANTACON ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing SantaCon.