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An innovative conceptual examination of all the paradoxes underpinning the reflection on the cliché. A highly recommended reading. * Ruth Amossy (Les discours du cliché; Stéréotypes et cliché: Langue, discours, société) * A much needed, richly argued, and historically informed tour of the phrases we claim to hate but can't live without. Treating clichés as radically contextual events, Ariel and Riesenfeld make the familiar strange again-and especially worth thinking about in the age of AI. * Nina Beguš (Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI) * This book is a thought-provoking and well-argued intervention into the debates on the role of clichés for theory and practice, which brings into sharp focus the power of clichés for a world both excited and troubled by AI in equal measure. * Tom Grimwood, (The Shock of the Same: An Anti-philosophy of clichés) *

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Nana Ariel is a rhetoric and literary scholar and a senior faculty member at Tel Aviv University. She was previously a visiting scholar and lecturer at Harvard University and Sciences Po, Paris. Her research spans modernist rhetoric and material cultures, manifestos, conventionality in language, and populist rhetoric from antiquity to the present. An enthusiastic educator, she also engages with pedagogy and the learning sciences, recently focusing on epistemic curiosity. She is also the author of several children's books. Dana Riesenfeld is a philosopher of language and teaches at Tel Aviv University. She also heads the philosophy program at Ironi Aleph School of the Arts. Her research engages with linguistic rules, conventions, and normativity, as these are understood across analytic and continental traditions. She has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of Donald Davidson and is exploring language as it is used on digital platforms.

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