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Google Search for “Phenomenology of Spirit” Suggests “Nebraska State Flower”

Saturday, August 2, 2008

As you may know, Google often thinks it knows what you are looking for better than you do. It will suggest different search queries and display them underneath the top three results for your original query. So I did a simple Google search for “Phenomenology of Spirit,” an 1807 book written by German philosopher G.W.F. [...]

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Review: 10 Books That Screwed Up the World by Benjamin Wiker

Monday, May 12, 2008

Benjamin Wiker’s book on bad books throughout the ages is misinformed and makes a few critical errors in its analysis. Specifically, it ignores the cultural context around each book he critiques, treating them as pure subliminal propaganda.

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There Is No Cabal: An Investigation into Wikipedia’s Legal Subculture

Thursday, May 31, 2007

An investigation into the community formed by small number of Wikipedia contributors who care enough to decide how, at some level, Wikipedia is run. The work discusses identity, communication, and organizational hierarchy in this subculture.

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Notions of Identity Liberation in Virtual Gaming Communities

Friday, May 5, 2006

The vast worlds of MMORPGs seem close to postmodern theories of identity, as a player is able to radically constitute their on-line self at will. Despite this, these virtual gaming communities should not be seen as safe spaces in which a subject can realize their true (or ideal) self.

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Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response by Colonialism

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Embracing Trobriand cricket as an instance in which domineering cultural empires were repelled is a flawed concept which masks the very forms of domination that it attempts to criticize.

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