Word: fluxes
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...danger in all this is not just what so much cartographic flux does to our maps, but what it does to our language. Must we live in a world with both a DMV and a DMZ? Did a globe with one Congo have to confuse things with two? And after I worked so hard when I was a kid remembering to call Russia the Soviet Union, was it really sporting to wait till I reached adulthood to tell me to forget...
During a three-year period of administrative flux under the tenure of three University presidents, GSAS’s financial support to humanities graduate students fell behind rival schools...
...still glad that I wore crimson instead of blue, but at the CHL’s frustrating pace, Harvard will fall even further behind Yale in the student satisfaction game. With the draw of the Square dwindling (hello, Citibank), the party coffers dry, and General Education and advising in flux, what’s a naïve prefrosh have to look forward to but cramped triples and sexile...
...history of books and taught at Princeton before coming to Harvard this year, emphasized that libraries are not “warehouses of printed paper,” but “dynamic cultural centers.” “We need to...shape the scholarly landscape in flux, and make it happen for the public good,” he said in an appearance before some 200 library personnel at the Graduate School of Education. Darnton’s speech, “Old Books and E-Books,” came at a semesterly meeting of Harvard...
...lauds the German Idealists and the Romantic poets for their rejection of external reality, but, in their fetishization and spiritualization of the Self, he sees mere Platonic claptrap. In Rorty’s view, humans and the world have no fixed essence or meaning. Instead, they are in perpetual flux, constantly dissolved and recreated by the language we use to make sense of our experience...