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ineluctable
Both Flesh and Not: Essays

an ineluctably conditioned part of a pop-dominated culture

—p.52 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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eschatology

lose any sense of eschatology, thus of teleology

—p.51 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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Berkeleyan

Imagine a Berkeleyan esse-est-percipi universe in which God is named Nielsen.

great quote in general

—p.49 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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antinomy

television begins, the more sophisticated it gets, to produce and live by an antinomy, a phenomenon whose strength lies in its contradiction

—p.48 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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calumny

By presenting the intellectual with a more or less accurate image of the popular culture, advertising earns his enmity and calumny.

Quoting advertising scholar Martin Mayer

—p.45 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) missing author
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