Tower of Sleep

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The Hermeneutics Of Screwing Around

tomewing:

Paper by Stephen Ramsay, found via the Stanley Fish article, making the case for serendipitous/chance-driven trails as an alternative to sense-making strategies such as canon-formation or algorithmic big data analysis.

I am colossally sympathetic to this and wish I’d read it sooner (it’s from 2010) - chimes w/stuff I’ve been writing about for ages (like this - from 10 years ago but describes ludic criticism nicely IMO)

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    same. conspicuous intellectual consumption, y’all.
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    I wave this in the air outside Paley Library howling fund me to an absent god.
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