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Mary Rose
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"The iPhone is intended to be an object that, if it is your sole possession in rural Africa, is such a major enhancement to your life that you ostensibly need little more."
What about the extra infrastructure you need to make the iPhone work? Power, internet, phone signal? What is this even trying to communicate, why is it that Africa is synonymous with poorness in Weber's mind?
— Dec 10, 2021 03:01PM
What about the extra infrastructure you need to make the iPhone work? Power, internet, phone signal? What is this even trying to communicate, why is it that Africa is synonymous with poorness in Weber's mind?
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Mary Rose
is on page 195 of 272
"He was also discussing—in detail and language that I think no one could possibly follow, with adverbs like "theosophically" and "iconographically" and "hermeneutically" and "interrelatedly"...."
Weber confirmed for illiterate
— Dec 10, 2021 02:39PM
Weber confirmed for illiterate
Mary Rose
is on page 193 of 272
Unclear why we needed to take time away from the central thesis to write about how much Cezanne loved to paint apples. Unclear why any of this, really.
— Dec 10, 2021 02:36PM
Mary Rose
is on page 154 of 272
"Not that sheer functionalism is always a desirable choice. Huts in Africa are bare bones, but out of paucity of means, not because of a taste for lean aesthetics."
The fact that this book has been published is proof that god does not love us and does not want us to be happy.
— Dec 10, 2021 02:14PM
The fact that this book has been published is proof that god does not love us and does not want us to be happy.
Mary Rose
is on page 119 of 272
Have you ever been so bad at your job that you accidentally imply that Rococo churches epitomize Bauhaus design? Nicholas Fox Weber has.
— Dec 10, 2021 01:39PM
Mary Rose
is on page 89 of 272
"Human beings have always been ambitious, but people were less brazen in previous eras."
This is a comedy
— Dec 10, 2021 12:51PM
This is a comedy
Mary Rose
is on page 75 of 272
The way this man is literally incapable of writing about a woman's accomplishments without commenting on their physical appearances makes me want to key his car.
— Dec 10, 2021 12:18PM
Mary Rose
is on page 26 of 272
"The ideal of all manmade products, from the Gothic cathedral to a desk lamp, was, according to the philosophical values that guided the Bauhaus, the effective use of minimal means."
What is it like to live inside your funny little brains
— Dec 10, 2021 11:10AM
What is it like to live inside your funny little brains