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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Bullshit"”.
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Hemingway and Bullshit
… paper uses Harry Frankfurt's definition of bullshit as a lens to re-examine Ernest Hemingway's aesthetic of factual details and omission. Frankfurt argues that bullshit consists of speech made with indifference to its veracity, and one who makes a habit of bullshitting may lose touch with …
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The Beautiful and the Bullshit: Speaker and Listener Mental Representations Influence Bullshit Receptivity
<p>Bullshit is a topic that has enjoyed an explosion of attention in both cognitive and social psychological research domains. While the picture painted thus far suggests that receptivity to such statements (i.e., perceiving meaning where none exists) hinges upon an individual’s ability to engage …
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BULL SPIT
… SPIT, </em>formally known as <em>“It’s Bullshit!!”</em>,<em> </em>is an exhibition consisting of seven sculptures, four installations, and one performance. The sculptures are informed by my research on low-income, working-class communities of color, analogous to the one I grew up in. The …
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Everything is awful : snark as ritualized social practice in online discourse
… and situate within Harry Frankfurt's concept of bullshit). After a discussion of the differences between politeness and civility, I define pro-social snark as impolite yet civil. Lastly, I analyze snark's affective qualities, and specifically its close relationship with paranoia. Utilizing Eve …
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996, moyu, and involution: tech work in the age of platform monopoly
… what the late David Graeber famously called, a bullshit job. By looking at its labor process, my research tells a different story of the consumer internet. Rather than being about dynamism, entrepreneurialism, and innovation, my thesis looks at the bullshitization of tech work and explores why …