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Gossip, he wrote, never starts anywhere. The “linguistic equivalent and forerunner of witchcraft,” it magically multiplies without attribution, and it cannot be contained.7 It is a technique of “infrapolitics,” the invisible, subterranean territory of subordinate groups.8 In this way, gossip and rumor are similar to the disguises, tricks, and perruques—the “art of the weak”—about which the scholar and theorist Michel de Certeau writes.9 Still, rumor and gossip are also available to the powerful as well as the weak. Hoax and spin are the raw material of politics. They fuel everyday mischief while also being a practical technique of markets and governments.
Extrastatecraft
Keller Easterling
Hatred is a curse that does not affect the hated. It only poisons the hater. Release a grudge as if it were a poison.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
See It Land, Let It Land A good note for being present is see it land, let it land. You make a move—verbal or non-verbal—and wait to see it land in your partner’s face before you keep going. That’s “see it land.” And when your partner makes a move, you feel it and show your feelings. Just a bit. A little smile, a little nod. That’s “let it land.” Improv often feels like a series of couplets. You move, they move back. They move, you react. You both provoke reactions in each other, like two poles of a battery.
How to Be the Greatest Improviser on Earth
Will Hines
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