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The Memeocene: Memes and Humanity’s New Epoch

Behold The Memeocene. Dialogue and politics are dead and we killed them. As human population and technology grows, there is increasing talk that we have entered a new epoch—the anthropocene or epoch of humans. The idea behind the appellation is […]

The Petty Online Tyrant

No petty tyrant is more petty or more tyrannical within their petty domain than a troll who somehow finagled their way into becoming a forum moderator.

Because Sometimes an Elephant on a Trampoline Helps Our Mood

Double Positive

During a lecture, the Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative. To which Columbia University […]