TheseROOT-WORDSare the PrefixAMB & AMBIwhich meanAROUND, ABOUT & BOTH. It comes from the Latin ambo, ambio & ambitio. This last, which is the basis for No. 4 and No. 5, means “a going about,” especially by candidates who solicit votes. It seems that our election campaigns have a...
aBut one of the problems with dead people , the Vezo say,is that because they also "feel a longing for the living"they may be inclined to return to them and,in some cases,create difficulties.Even the beloved dead are therefore a source of ambivalence. 但其中一个问题与死的人民, Vezo言,...
and is, if anything, equally prone to overdetermination)But okay, as much as a lot of my love for Berlant or this book is not entirely rational, I did manage to write down some points of why I like itThe gist of this book, as much as I find it difficult to grasp, seems to be ...
Caught between the seemingly contradictory imageries of particularity and universality, 'European identity' could in fact be presumed but as a shorthand for ontological anxiety. The ('euro-') centric ontology that it denotes is marked by an ongoing ambivalence that\nboth recoils from and accepts ...
In the case of the many non-observant American Jews, it’s possible that their ambivalence toward Israel – which seems to manifest in outright opposition every four years at election time – is rooted in a rejection of their ancestral faith which naturally morphs into hostility toward it. ...
He also says “My own ambivalence about the RICO letter…”. Why would you put your name to a letter to the President calling for prosecutions if you were ambivalent about it?Other links:A new low in science: Criminalizing climate change skeptics and blog post...
It’s hard to even write about it, but it was how I felt—absolute concern for my sister and a sort of ambivalence toward the baby, who was quite possibly lowering her chances for survival. It’s not that I resented him. It was more that I resented the situation. Throughout her week...
Last week I finished readingAcceptanceby Jeff VanderMeer, the third and final book in what used to be theSouthern Reachtrilogy. Skimming some of the reviews on Goodreads, I was surprised to see a fair amount of ambivalence and negativity about this book, as I personally loved it as a conclu...
It’s more than a little scary to think of the kinds of things a structural edit will reveal in longer forms of writing. I’ll face that challenge next. The point is, whatever ambivalence you feel toward editing,get over it!The writer’s ego is like tomato skin, but it’s better to...
As you mentioned, an exemplary situation for this American semantics of technology is MIT and, as far as I know, there is still a ring of ambivalence for Marx within the “T” in the MIT. Because when they named MIT, the T held an old meaning, which was very much alive in France ...