125 Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan — The Post Office of Words

This discussion of Index, a History of the by Dennis Duncan is a big day for Victoria because it’s an episode all about her favorite thing ever: sorting things into categories. Julia is there to help translate the Middle English quotes.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

• The Great Vowel Shift

• Book Parts edited by Dennis Duncan and Adam Smyth

• Victoria’s very rough attempt at an index of Julia’s thesis

• American Society for Indexing

• The Daily Show

• Scalable sociality

• William Poole

Recommendations:

• Internet Archive

• Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chaika

• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (book)

• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (podcast)

• Garbage Day newsletter on Substack

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• Alligator Bites Never Heal 2024 album by Doechii 2024

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• Dunya 2024 album by Mustafa