Primordial: An Abstraction

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The academic ideological apparatus interpellates all of us.

For academics and non-academics alike, there is no escaping the apparatus.

Hence I have conceived of a new book-length project in which I will explore the vicissitudes of the word “baby” in pop songs. Every singer pronounces the word in a distinctive, utterly singular way. They employ different inflections for divergent purposes and at times devious ends. It confounds me that a study of this nature has never been conducted before, if only by a linguist. But there’s nothing out there.

Nothing.