unprecedentedness

Of course, for a hot dog experiment of this kind of unprecedentedness, I had to invite my friends over for a tasting session.

If I Were Entering the Great Hot Dog Cook-Off Take 2: The Maki Dog 2008

These results indicate that proxy data is not accurate enough to make conclusions about unprecedentedness of 20th century.

Unthreaded #16 « Climate Audit 2007

And while this storm did dump the most snow in Central Park in recorded history since 1869, we must be getting used to unprecedentedness, because it didn't seem all that bad.

vor f��nfzehn Jahren 2006

For Arendt, therefore, the enormity and unprecedentedness of totalitarianism have not destroyed, strictly speaking, our ability to judge; rather, they have destroyed our accepted standards of judgment and our conventional categories of interpretation and assessment, be they moral or political.

Hannah Arendt d'Entreves, Maurizio Passerin 2006

This need to come to terms with the traumatic events of the twentieth century, and to understand them in a manner that does not explain them away but faces them in all their starkness and unprecedentedness, is something to which Arendt returns again and again.

Hannah Arendt d'Entreves, Maurizio Passerin 2006

And while this storm did dump the most snow in Central Park in recorded history since 1869, we must be getting used to unprecedentedness, because it didn't seem all that bad.

26.9" 2006

This is one of the most unusual presidential campaigns in terms of its unprecedentedness in modern times.

CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2004 2004

One can however try to recreate the excitement, the unprecedentedness, and the modernity of the first publication.

'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange Rose, Danis 1998

The other thing I wanted to say on this, getting back to the original post re: Moll Flanders and immaterial labor (I just checked and the original blog post that had that idea is no longer available and I hadn't written down whose idea it was; I feel bad about this now, riffing on someone else's idea when I don't know who they are - whoever you are, if you find this, I think that piece you wrote was great and the idea was great and I wish the page was still up so I could read it again more closely!), one of the basic points for me here is that all of this stuff is precedented, despite the insistence on a posture of unprecedentedness, of novelty.

What in the hell ... 2008

The other thing I wanted to say on this, getting back to the original post re: Moll Flanders and immaterial labor (I just checked and the original blog post that had that idea is no longer available and I hadn't written down whose idea it was; I feel bad about this now, riffing on someone else's idea when I don't know who they are - whoever you are, if you find this, I think that piece you wrote was great and the idea was great and I wish the page was still up so I could read it again more closely!), one of the basic points for me here is that all of this stuff is precedented, despite the insistence on a posture of unprecedentedness, of novelty.

What in the hell ... 2008