I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in the dark corners of the web?
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posted by 0bvious
on Apr 4, 2012 -
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F. Scott FitzgeraldFilter: "Everyone's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness." I've seen this quote attributed to F. Scott. Did he actually say it?
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posted by toomuchkatherine
on Nov 28, 2011 -
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Looking for new magazines to read or subscribe to that publish enthralling nonfiction.
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posted by reenum
on Nov 9, 2010 -
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I'm moving to the UK for the next three years and have some questions about my identity and language use.
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posted by iamkimiam
on May 5, 2010 -
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Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers. The notion for instance that the sacrament, at the point of its acceptance, is understood as
becoming the signified. What can you tell me / what has been written about the notions of sacrifice and their relationship to speech, art and the technologies of writing?
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posted by 0bvious
on Feb 24, 2010 -
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De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not limited to: computer programming, cyphers, linguistics, genetics etc.
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posted by 0bvious
on Feb 2, 2010 -
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I am looking for writings on
mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures.
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posted by 0bvious
on Feb 16, 2009 -
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A few years ago there was a short story in the New Yorker set in the near future. The characters were children raised in a world where they seemed to be market research test subjects...
I really can't recall any more details than that... Does this ring any bells?
posted by psergio
on Jun 5, 2008 -
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Literary Darwinism: A relatively new field of evolutionary psychology / literary theory. What has recently been written in argument
against it?
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posted by 0bvious
on Jun 3, 2008 -
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What one book will allow others to gain the truest insight into the soul of each city or region
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posted by reenum
on May 6, 2008 -
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Four days in Iceland from Friday: me and my girlfriend are travel writers and will eventually do a write up of the hotel, restaurants and attractions we visit. How can we best stray off the beaten path in only FOUR days?
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posted by 0bvious
on Feb 18, 2008 -
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Looking for books that talk about aspects of society or culture in new and interesting ways.
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posted by reenum
on Jan 10, 2008 -
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Here's what could be called an urgent question for Europeans who make their living writing (amongst other things) about the United States. How do you explain to intelligent Europeans that "America" is actually as big and varied a proposition as "Europe"? If not more. [
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posted by MiguelCardoso
on Apr 7, 2004 -
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