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Kartik Agaram 2025-06-27 09:26:39

It seemed worth doing: I just recorded a video reading out every word of the 1985 paper "Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law".

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In which I read out every word of James Boyd White's 1985 paper, Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and Communal Life which spawned the...

Ivan Reese 2025-06-27 13:23:10

Whoa. Didn't have this on my bingo card. I'm not familiar with this paper. Does it have some personal meaning for you?

Kartik Agaram 2025-06-27 18:04:15

I'm sure seeing you record a bunch of 4-letter words planted the seed 😄

I came across this paper just 2 weeks ago! But reading it felt like universes colliding. It feels relevant to both my technical interests and the current state of the world.

Kartik Agaram 2025-06-27 18:10:10

And of course I was trying to make use of everything I learned from you about creating clear audio. This is 50 minutes but also umpteen takes. I basically spent all day yesterday on it. Let me know how the audio quality came out! I did have kids intervene a couple of times and I figured that would still make for a good take (again your influence). But hopefully the baseline noise level is ok.