Benjamin A. Wurgaft

@benwurgaft

european intellectual history and preapocalyptic whatnot. my book Thinking in Public is now out from Penn:

california/cambridge ma
mit.academia.edu/BenWurgaft
Joined June 2009
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  2. 7 hours ago

    anyone in Victoria find a frog friend? see below

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    Can you provide a signal boost to help find this frog in Victoria? He's important and my friend is sad.
  3. 10 hours ago Oakland, CA

    Sunday: apparently a good day to walk around the house singing "Disarm" in a terrifying muppet falsetto

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  4. 14 hours ago

    Cambridge/Boston friends take note. Toscanini's = Central Square Great Again

    Patrick Barrett tried today's vanilla/chocolate soft serve and said we "are making Central Square great again.
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    Jan 30

    Does the road to excess always lead to wisdom? The New Sensibility & capitalism

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  6. Jan 30

    just another saturday night thinking about how medievalists have more fun.

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    Jan 30

    I sometimes wonder if "services" can be more ethical and transparent when we do just pay for them. With money not data.

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    Jan 30

    good I wouldn't want to end up in the lame genetics house

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  9. Jan 30

    I'm re-reading it now for inspiration! Everyone read Cuisine and Empire!

    Who could resist retweeting such a generous recommendation? Not me.
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    Jan 29

    Naw, life evolved humans to head off further asteroid mass extinctions. Cancers can't do that.

    Actually, , I think H sapiens is, to the biosphere, a metastatic tumor. Do tumors owe duties? But do tumors have consciences?
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    28 Dec 2015

    AT THE EMOJI MUSEUM 👯 I love Degas 🌺 O'Keeffe was ahead of her time ⛩ Ooh, Hiroshige, so elegant 💀 Ugh, fckin Damian Hirst

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    Jan 29

    let's be honest, the Doors summarized all MRA philosophy about five decades ago with WOMEN SEEM WICKED WHEN YOU'RE UNWANTED

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    Jan 29

    Who among us has not wanted to eat the male shark in our lives

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    A female shark in a Seoul aquarium didn't like a male shark bumping into her. So she ate him
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    Jan 29

    Students! We are proud to announce a new grant.

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    Jan 29

    "The fantasy of being a manic pixie dream girl is a potent & insidious one for teen girls."

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    12:05 PM - 29 Jan 2016 · Details
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    Jan 29

    Early warning: I'll be talking Planet Nine and Planet Vulcan with on around 3:20 this aft. Check local listings or...

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    Jan 29

    It's the 10 year anniversary of Michael Chabon's Essay on Long Now, still one of the best published:

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    Jan 27

    Nautilus announces partnership with MIT Press to co-publish print editions:

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    7:17 AM - 27 Jan 2016 · Details
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    Jan 29

    Ok, if you are the kind of person who says "hack the poor," you have failed at life. You are a life failure.

    Can we hack the poor by giving them money? Or will they just waste it, like startups do? Y Combinator investigates:
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    Jan 29

    I’m writing this book and working in the cafe

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