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Title: The Online Reaction To The ‘Politics Of Smell’ PhD, Examined
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2024, 11:41:35 AM

I was utterly bemused by the reactions on twitter to this.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/callumbooth/2024/12/02/the-online-reaction-to-the-politics-of-smell-phd-examined/

Title: Re: The Online Reaction To The ‘Politics Of Smell’ PhD, Examined
Post by: jeremyp on December 03, 2024, 10:08:41 AM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2024, 11:41:35 AM

I was utterly bemused by the reactions on twitter to this.

Why? It's Twitter.

Title: Re: The Online Reaction To The ‘Politics Of Smell’ PhD, Examined
Post by: Steve H on December 10, 2024, 10:26:50 AM

Coincidentally, I'm currently reading 'Churchill and Orwell' by Thomas Ricks, which devotes a page or two to Orwell's fascination with smell as a social indicator - he appears to have had an especially sensitive sense of smell, and was somewhat fastidious about t.