Cognitive dissonance on the front page

mediasovereignty.org

Well now I, too, am mad about the Odyssey movie

#1) All parts of @adjb.co’s six-part series introducing the digital humanities are now up on his blog: www.adamdjbrett.com/blog/ I’m impressed by the quality and usefulness of this series, particularly by … (go to #2 in thread)

Alan Liu@alanyliu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just out: part 1 of @adjb.co’s six-part blog series introducing & explaining the digital humanities, www.adamdjbrett.com/blog/dh-part.... Part 1 is quite good. I would assign it in an Intro to DH course.

"...as we think through what Reconstruction in a post-Trump US – which must also be an anti-Trump US – requires, one question should be high on the agenda: do so many institutions in civil society need to be as authoritarian as they currently are?"

The federal government isn’t America’s only authoritarian institution | Jan-Werner Müller

Backlash at Yale to its negotiations with Trump shine a light on the danger of smaller authoritarian structures in civil society

theguardian.com

It will surprise you none at all that media obsolescence myths are almost always originated by a.) investor & entrepreneurs in emergent media, and/or b.) investors who want to consolidate control of “obsolescent” media infrastructure.

You all know there is an actual island in Europe that is swapping nationalities every 6 months? The island is called Pheasant Island and is located on the Bidasoa River, France, and Irun, Spain. The swapping goes back to mid seventeenth century peace negotiations between France and Spain. #FRAESP

✨loook how when you notice some things from one place and time resemble other things from another place and time…what profundities about the human condition we can discover✨ <<whisper voice>> buy merch

Michael Bloomberg on EdTech, 1997

Anyway I promise I’m writing this book as fast as I can. 11/n cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI

Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI

cdh.princeton.edu

I don’t know why every English Department AND library hasn’t adopted this line from “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” as their motto “Books are brain movies!”

I wonder whether this applies to drama / movies about literary figures? (Completely, I guess.) Fiction might on occasion be different, if it works more with the literary text. Or music. Pushkin’s Mozart and Salieri—do you need to actually know the music?

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In college I took a class pitched at humanities bums like me taught by a theater prof & a nobel-prize-winning physicist. We read the play, learned the physics, then watched the play. The conceit was that our comprehension of the play wd be enhanced by an understanding of the physics. It was not.

One of those rare occasions where I would actually like to spend three days in the audience.

Carlos Spoerhase@spoerhase.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Starting in two days: our Nobel Symposium "Literary Consecration and the Transformation of Publishing in the Era of Globalization" (May 21–24). We will explore literary prizes, agents, translation markets, and global publishing. Full program: jirango.com/cview/web/1a... #NobelSymposium

Kafka’s Metamorphosis is not a novel. 100 “greatest novels” are not “the greatest literature”. Most voted is not greatest. etc.

There is peer review. And there are also journal editors. Or should be. Editing a journal should not just mean averaging peer review results (2xY=Y, 2xN=N, Y+N=R&R, etc.) —and if that is all the journal can do, it should fold. Fascinating data, maybe not fully thought-through parenthetical comment?

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 3mo ago

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Let's just say, this pretty yellow and amazing volume came out this week in print, and will be available in open access soon (likely in June): www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Schreibkalen... It is about #earlymodern almanacs of German-speaking Europe: the #Schreibkalender

Getting stuck on whether or not these products can help historical or humanities research misses the more important issue which is that the corporations who are selling them simply want to dismantle and replace all public services (education, healthcare, the legal system, policing, etc).

The Gellner Solution

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

sadly state media would never let me write my proposal that in order to increase trust in officials we should castrate them.

Getting laid off makes you grabby or perhaps clippy Last week a friend tried to read a piece I wrote years ago (may we all be blessed with such friends!) but found it paywalled. did I have a copy? I ... did not I don't have most of the things I've written oh no

✊ People of the Book, come through to support! Rally on April 29, Wednesday, 12:30 pm, at the public plaza on 52nd St between Fifth and Sixth avenues “We're asking folks to show up wearing union swag, if you have it!”

Hachette Workers Coalition@hbgworkers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We, the employees at Hachette Book Group, are proud to announce that we are unionizing with Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild-CWA Local 32035, of the AFL-CIO, in order to ensure better benefits, protections, and rights for workers as well as increased equity, transparency, and agency in the workplace.

Thinking of Nice, Chagall was also thinking of Matisse. How could he not.

Professor Claire Jowitt@clairejowitt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Love, love, love this Chagall - Nice, Soleil Fleurs, lithographic poster, 1962 ... makes me happy just looking at it ... 🧜‍♀️💐

Modes of Compression: Aesthetics, Operations, Formats www.khi.fi.it/de/aktuelles...

Modes of Compression: Aesthetics, Operations, Formats

khi.fi.it

Prestigious fellowships like the Guggenheim often amplify existing inequalities, favoring scholars from elite institutions. This analysis of nearly 30,000 awards shows that Harvard and Stanford dominate the recipients. By @bakerdphd.bsky.social et al. in @publicbooks.bsky.social

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely…

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ok but this one no sane person would actually believe any more than the idea that mummies were imported for the bitumen needed for the asphalt used for road surfaces…? or? WHO WROTE THIS???

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Book-history myths Aren’t they neat? Wouldn’t you think my collection’s complete? Wouldn’t you think I’m the girl, The girl who reads Everything?

This is a good account by @nataschastrobl.bsky.social of what happened in Hungary—how a center-right figure, using Mamdani-like campaign tactics, managed to overthrow an authoritarian regime, what we can now expect and hope for, and what we can learn from this.

taz@taz.de · 4mo ago

Viktor Orbán hat Ungarn in einen autoritären Staat umgebaut. Seine Abwahl zeigt, wie auch tief verankerte autoritäre Systeme besiegt werden können.

So reasonable—why does it need to be said and even argued? But it does need to be and @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social makes the case well.

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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