A full hour of pre-roll before our extended conversation (in the next episode) with Ian Samuel. Opening topics: Words, Joe's new paper, phones and their spam and locations. We argue about how to have an argument. Then we stumble into a psychological typology of judginess and prescriptivism. The heartland of the episode concerns the self, law, death, being and non-being, Joe's youthful fear of blindness, the external and internal point of view, the reality of firehouses, and law as a social practice for reaching acceptable social conclusions vs. law as a queryable thing. (Other potential show titles: Pure Pre-Roll, The Jerk Box, and The Jailor.)
This show’s links:
About "antepenultimate" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antepenultimate) (including links to "propreantepenultimate")
About Battle Royale games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royale_game)
Tim Dowling, Order Force: The Old Grammar Rule We All Obey Without Realising (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/sentence-order-adjectives-rule-elements-of-eloquence-dictionary)
Joe Miller, Law's Semantic Self-Portrait: Discerning Doctrine with Co-Citation Networks and Keywords (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3212131)
Carpenter v. United States (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_new_o75q.pdf)
Anil Seth, The Real Problem (https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one) (on the problem of consciousness)
Philip Bobbitt, Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (https://books.google.com/books?id=qVrjzOHlKsEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false),