Comments on: Gum Dog/Vocab http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2012/04/08/gum-dogvocab/ Gesamtkunstblog Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: hh http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2012/04/08/gum-dogvocab/#comment-6458 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:04:37 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=2027#comment-6458 Re: Imagined Communities. This book sounds awesome, but I will pay you $10 if you can make it past the introduction. This is one of those books that has a great concept/idea, but is written so poorly that it is practically unreadable. My history professors loved to talk about Imagined Communities, but I’ll bet none of them actually read the motherfucker.

]]> By: e http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2012/04/08/gum-dogvocab/#comment-6451 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:57:15 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=2027#comment-6451 Benedict Anderson is awesome! I know because we have one of his books that my spouse was assigned back in the long-ago days of Not Getting a History PhD. It is probably, even, THE book to have: Imaged Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.

I love how I’m all “this guy is awesome! We have his book!” because, although it is absolutely true that we have this book and have moved it through a bunch of apartments and it has survived plenty of brutal book Cullings, I have not actually read this book, and I have no plans to do so. I just assume that any history-related book that is still under our roof is axiomatically awesome.

Also looking at your vocab list led me to the Wikipedia entry for the Raven paradox, which you should read.

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