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Real Benisons @realbenisons.bsky.social

With respect for what Guy Debord wrote about spectacle, Roland Barthes' "The World of Wrestling" is the OG primer (in post-WW2 French discourse)

aug 28, 2025, 2:16 pm • 7 0

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rose enthusiast @lazygardener.bsky.social

One of my best undergrad classes involved reading _Mythologies_ alongside Livy and we got into things like the semiotics of Tom Cruise's hair (c. 1999). Bless the Common Core.

aug 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 7 0 • view
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rose enthusiast @lazygardener.bsky.social

My teacher for that: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._R._J...

aug 28, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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Real Benisons @realbenisons.bsky.social

web.mit.edu/21l.432/www/...

aug 28, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view