Category: Reviews

Paradox of the evolutionary metaphor in language death

by Dominik Lukeš ·

When Languages Die: Science and Sentiment : In his book When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World’s Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. He shows that the disappearance of a language is a loss not only for…

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Hitchens vs Hitchens | the Daily Mail

by Dominik Lukeš ·

Hitchens vs Hitchens | the Daily Mail If we are weak and poor, we can all summon up self-interested decency, behaving in a kind way, in public, towards those from whom we hope for decency in return. But as soon as we have the power to do evil, we generally do. What is to stop…

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Of dicks and doves: Team America cognitive semireview

by Dominik Lukeš ·

YouTube - Team America Finale Speech PhatGun (3 months ago) HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA SO TRUE!!! Tomster22 (19 hours ago) Neo-Cons = Dicks, Peacenicks = Pussies, Islamo-Fascists = Assholes AerisRocks (2 months ago) lol! Thats a great metaphor they used...assholes want us to shit on everything and dicks fuck assholes lmfao, great scene. This post has been brewing…

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Tom Waits and the surface of text

by Dominik Lukeš ·

ANTI- Album - Orphans What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear. Just like true mythopoeic narrative is returning to its roots through TV series after a brief…

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Revenge of the Nerds (1984) - Review 1

by Dominik Lukeš ·

Revenge of the Nerds (1984) They've been laughed at, picked on and put down. But now it's time for the odd to get even! I decided it's time to start keeping track of my frequent encounters with popular culture - in other words, I'm adding a new category: Reviews . I'm going to try to…

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