someone convince me that downloading PDFs is not actually the same thing as working on my dissertation
I just came out here to have a good time
"A student [downloads] hundreds of pages of [PDFs] and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the [PDFs] exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many."
-Umberto Eco (in How to Write a Thesis, originally discussing photocopies)
indeed it does Umberto Eco 😔
