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Lost Temporal Depth (opens the original)
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How Modern is Paranoia? (opens the original)
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Contemporary leaders1 want everyone to believe, “We’re the best, we know how things work.” But according to who lived then, every age self-defined as ‘modern.’ If you were to ask your great-great-grandparents what they called their age, they’d say: modern. [Short video of San Gimignano, Tuscany. (Credit mine.)]Those who lived in the year 476, after the ousting of Romulus Augustus, considered themselves modern. 476 is the year hist
Existing in the Physical World (opens the original)
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On Lost Honor (opens the original)
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I’m talking about a booklet that was a huge hit in 1974. The topic is still very modern: propaganda and its consequences. The booklet itself wasn’t my choice of reading, but part of the linguistic program at university (an interesting choice.)It’s a simple story and all too common in the age of social media. Katharina Blum, the protagonist, is a 27-year-old housekeeper whose life is ruined by an invasive tabloid reporter and a police investigation—it turns out that the man with whom she’s just f
To Pick Culture (opens the original)
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As a child in Italy I was allowed to watch television after dinner—but only the commercials. That may seem odd, but it was the golden age of Carosello, which wasn’t just a container for ad messages, but quality entertainment with actual story lines from one episode to the next one. The shorts had a predetermined structure: a number of seconds dedicated to advertising, a number of mentions of the product name and the number of seconds to be dedicated to the ‘show,’ and a plot which had to be unre
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