https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/09/08/digital-calluses-and-tender-hands/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/09/08/digital-calluses-and-tender-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-8068 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:14:45 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1792#comment-8068 Seems we love both the thrill of combat, and to be protected from it. Love of war and calls for peace are surely constants in human history. We academics seem to prefer calls for peace in the real world–but only because we’ve developed elaborate ways to engage in our love of combat with each other.

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