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Duncan Reyburn
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1/ Smoothness is the sign of the times, the deletion of the negative, the ironing out of anything other and against. It links phone screens, slick car designs, shaved bodies,
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When I visited the Chesterton Library in 2014, which was at the Oxford Oratory at the time, I was hoping to find examples of GKC's marginalia. Turns out, he drew
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G. K. Chesterton was a rather notorious abuser of his books. His friend Digby d’Avigdor recalls him as a boy at St. Paul’s: "I always have a vision of him
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Maybe the trend in UX/UI design towards making things easier to use is caught in a kind of anti-ethics. Things that resist us, as in the joke philosophy of Resistentialism,
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Nine qualities of self-deception:1. Self-inflation: Ego-centric people assume that their perspective is the only right one. Narcissists are particularly prone to making false assertions. 2. The bias of power: Power
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Thinking about an idea I remember reading in Owen Barfield's Poetic Diction, about a kind of connection between a kid's use of language and the way the ancients used lanaguage;
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A thread on the psychology of disgust & the culture wars. Our engagement with the moral order is affected/mediated by our disgust response, much like our enjoyment of wine is
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