jnd5000

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   by jnd5000 8y ago

   I think it's more than theatre. We know theatre is fiction, and we think of it as fiction as we consume it. Kayfabe is weirder, more nuanced. As we watch wrestling, we simultaneously hold two visions in our heads that are logically opp
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   by jnd5000 8y ago

   This willing suspension of disbelief -- or resistance to disenchantment, if you will -- is so central to professional wrestling there's actually a slang term the professional wrestling community uses to describe it: kayfabe. It's
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   by jnd5000 12y ago

   There's a great novel, _Red Plenty_, by Francis Spufford, that touches on Soviet computing in the 50s and 60s as part of a broader exploration of Soviet economic planning. I wish more people would read it. It's a weird hybrid of r