Tyler/Jill Lepore

  • Accordion of history. Originalism = squeezing the accordion (same with direct historical comparisons)

  • Liberals failed making constitutional arguments around their policies

  • Bad to only look to constitution when out of power

  • Connie Willis - writer on time travel

  • End of 19th century = birth of sci fi; new attention paid to time; sense that pace of lives were changing

  • “Really profitable intellectually”

  • Brexit almost is a time travel attempt (ex: trading with NZ/India)

  • “Blind spot” = highlights lives of ordinary ppl in 18th century; showed that everyday ppl were bound up in ideas

  • Out of our past = book that synthesizes all of US history (1954)

  • John Gunther - inside USA

  • Frederick Douglass = most photographed person of 19th century

  • Personal computer came out of best movement

  • Networking (SF) be broadcast model (LA)

  • “The myth of a digital democracy” book

  • “It’s not an exertion intellectually to be dystopic about he consequences of these technologies (!)

  • We no longer subscribe to the idea of “representation”; we instead believe their job is to rally up individual views and represent that

  • EB White essay: “Death of a pig”

  • In this digital world: something is dying and we can’t save it (analogous to EB White’s short story about death of a pig (wow)