1. @MattZeitlin did a funny tweet string about esoteric words found in Perry Anderson's American Foreign Policy book https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/873555923947724800 …
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2. Since I enjoyed that Perry Anderson tweeting I thought I'd list off words found in Anderson's Origins of Post-Modernity.
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3. Prodromes [title of the first chapter], exordium, autotelic, optative, obsequy, paralogism, neguentropy, chasse-croise, obnubilating
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4. appanage, exempla, coupure, ablutted, matastases, cathexis, brevet, encanaillement, haptic,sottisier,
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5. Most of Anderson is pretty easy to figure out with a few dictionaries (including French/English ones) but one word baffles me.
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6. In Origins of Postmodernity, Anderson refers to the "disneyfication of protocols and tarantinization of practices"
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7. What does "tarantinization" mean? As far as I know, only Anderson has ever used it. Does it refer to Quentin Tarantino?
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8. This little excursus isn't an attack on Anderson, one of my favorite non-fiction writers in part because of his sesquipedalian diction
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9. Here's the context for "tarantinization" -- an account of the post-modern social milieu very relevant in age of Trumppic.twitter.com/PaMqwxM6Vv
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At least people still watch Tarantino movies. Who remembers the Lincoln Bedroom scandal today?
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I bet you Newt Gingrich remembers
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