"When will these things return to haunt us?" Walter Benjamin, Epilogue to the Berlin Food Exhibition
A. de la Paz
@adelapaz.bsky.social
Asst. prof, BUPardeeSchool | PhD, Columbia PolSci | war, history, international law and ethics, human oddities, and more | columbia.edu/~ad3085/
James Scott on an interesting course taught by Robert Dahl
“Humanitarians and hospitals now almost have to justify why we shouldn’t be targeted rather than those launching the attacks having to explain themselves.” From Ukraine and Sudan to Gaza: why have hospitals become a target of war? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
From Ukraine and Sudan to Gaza: why have hospitals become a target of war?
International law states only military sites can be targeted during conflicts, but this is routinely being ignored
theguardian.com
A sneak preview of some of the contents in my forthcoming book "Art of Divination: A Visual History". Available for pre-order. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ktY...
Art of Divination by Owen Davies
YouTube video by Yale Press
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Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano
Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari
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Patterns recur through various mythologies: floods, tricksters, battles with monsters, creation and apocalypse. Some scholars believe there is a common source—and hope to find it.
The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story
From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go—and what might we find?
newyorker.com
Farewell to a comrade-in-arms, a fierce advocate, a fellow critical philosopher, a man of faith and ethics: Thomas Anthony Durkin. Your life and your struggles will guide us now. May we live up to them and to your memory. Farewell. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
Thomas A. Durkin, Civil Liberties Lawyer for the Reviled, Dies at 78
nytimes.com
Interesting: "Time Tools" - Cooperrider - Topics in Cognitive Science onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Time Tools
Humans understand time in a way no other animal does. This is not because of our evolved biology, however—it is because we have developed a diverse and powerful toolkit of ideas, practices, and artif...
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