Dept of condemned to repeat it, endlessly reprised
I think we can tell that when there is an article in the press about 'neuroscience deplores the strains of modern life, with particular reference to mobile phones, woez woez', no-one, but no-one, is going to have read, let alone cite, the historiography on 'diseases of modern life' and how much these all look immensely similar once you look at them in the longer historical context.
(La patronne, by the way, racommande Mark Jackson's work on Stress.)
Railways! telephones! the new journalism! (cf jeremiading over periodicals such as Titbits, pretty much the Buzzfeed of the 1900s) movies!
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10 best quotable novels and nobody mentions Middlemarch, or indeed anything by George Eliot. WTF. (And, okay, is novels, so parameters exclude Saki or Ms Parker.)
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I am so there with Jay Rayner and the fact that delicious food is not necessarily beautiful and ready for its close-up Mr De Mille. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2217243.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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