Cool

A genealogy of cool

In Cool, Economics, Fashion, Language, Music on 11 August 2008 with no comments

A friend from college was here yesterday for another friend’s party. He studies linguistics at the University of Illinois and we had a good conversation on his Ph.D. dissertation, a study of Parisian residents’ perceptions of other Parisian residents’ ways of speaking. I eventually steered things towards one of my side-interests: what it has meant [...]