The other night, I had a dream that I had finished my next etymology article; when I awoke, there was nothing but an outline and a bibliography. This was greatly demotivating. Once Upon a Witch’s Death (ある魔女が死ぬまで) is a modern fantasy slice-of-life drama anime about Meg Raspberry, an apprentice to...#anime
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It’s not that I’m not trying to write an actual article, using the idea of publishing these reports as an excuse to procrastinate even further because I will still write something anyway. No, it’s just that research is hard, way too hard. Every time I try to get back into...#blog
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I promise that I was really serious about actually publishing weekly articles for the Etymology and Onomastics series, I just got depressed and distracted. To make up for it, I’ve decided that, in any case where I do not have an article ready for publication, I will instead write up...#anime
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The production and distribution of goods and services has always been a global phenomenon. It would in fact be quite hard to argue to the contrary. From long range networks of exchange spanning continents to human migration and travel including traversing oceans from thousands of years, “globalization” seems almost like...#economics
Poorly researched claims about the history of the family but I will not be taking criticism at this time, please direct all complaints to @unaxiii_ on twitter dot com. A response to Melinda Cooper’s Family Values (2017), heavily relying on the history of patriarchal property relations from Debt: The First...#economics
I was aiming for something a bit lighter with this one, so it's more "Fun Facts with Una" and less ripping my hair out reading 18th century alchemy essays.
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The harder an excerpt was to transcribe the more likely I am to keep it, is this sunk-cost? No, I'm just assisting in legibility of historic documents! Look me in the eyes and tell me you could read Norwegian in Fraktur!
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This short essay was written as a reading response for a class to chapter 3 of Plotkin and Scheuerman’s book Private Interest, Public Spending (1994). Reading that chapter is not necessary for understanding this but encouraged. In their chapter on Balanced-Budget Conservatism, Plotkin and Scheuerman outline 3 major principles that...#economics
The paragraphs below were written for a class in response to the second chapter of The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (2007). In Chapter 2 of The Shock Doctrine, Noami Klein describes the influence of Milton Friedman and the Economics department at the University of Chicago in the proliferation of...#chile
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This was written for a class in response to chapter 2 of David M. Kotz’s 2014 book The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism, and while reading that is not necessary to understand the discussion below, that is the context for which it was written. Something I couldn’t get out...#economics