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Andrew Popp

@andrewpopp.bsky.social

Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.

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Andrew Popp@andrewpopp.bsky.social · yesterday

Leapt up, realising I have an unread copy on my bookshelf (randomly; I really don't read science fiction and this was picked up on the fly from the neighbourhood recycling station).

A copy of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" with a garish, pulpy cover lying on a glass coffee table.
Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪@telescoper.bsky.social · yesterday

There Will Come Soft Rains In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains. The story appears in a collection called The Martian Chronicles. The title comes from poem of the same title, written in 1918 as a response to the horrors of World War 1: There will come soft…

Andrew Popp@andrewpopp.bsky.social · yesterday

An aspiration for some. I remember listening to a v. prominent biz school scholar tell a grad seminar they should strive to make their writing so frictionless, so devoid of authorial voice, as to go unnoticed. If the reader notices your writing you have failed. I expect he is delighted with AI.

Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · yesterday

We've spent our lives, until very recently, reading predominantly human words, human sentences, human text, poetry. What is it doing to us now, emotionally, to have to wade through so much written material which simply isn't written by a person? If you're a big reader, love words, I think it hurts.

Lars Fischer@lpfischer.bsky.social · last wk.

One of the best ways to do traffic calming: entrance to a side street turned into a small square in front of a local pub / café, preventing rat running & creating a social space, while allowing pedestrians and cyclists to move freely.

A continuous sidewalk & bikelane passing a side street. The side street is narrowed to a bike path, with the rest of the space take up by a paved space in front of a pub, with seating + some bike parking. A small street with apartment buildings & car parking on each side, ending in a small square with seating in front of a pub. A bike path passes the square, connecting to the street beyond.
Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · 2w ago

My fellow historians, which single academic article of yours do you think 'teaches best', i.e. for both staff and students it's doing work that leads to a strong class discussion + students remember it? I am interested in how people see their own work. I'll go first. Hit reply and link your pick!

Andrew Popp@andrewpopp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Depressing. Sadly, family ownership is no cast iron (sorry) defense against PE. PE is definitely interested in acquiring family businesses and under the right circumstances families will definitely consider full or partial sale to PE. I recently supervised a great thesis on exactly this.

Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.

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Andrew Popp@andrewpopp.bsky.social · 2w ago

On workload; I wrote two desk rejects this week. It takes (lots of) time. Both were in scope for the journal, so I was rejecting for weaknesses, not fit. The authors deserved careful & thorough explanations, esp. the PhD student, with whom I had follow up correspondence. It's not quick or easy work.

Andrew Popp@andrewpopp.bsky.social · 3w ago

My first reaction? This level of workload is simply unsustainable for any editor. Before we even get to AI's impact on content there is its impact on volume. Personally, I have largely been spared, so far. I don't know if this is disciplinary (history in my case).

Andrew Popp@andrewpopp.bsky.social · 3w ago

My first reaction? This level of workload is simply unsustainable for any editor. Before we even get to AI's impact on content there is its impact on volume. Personally, I have largely been spared, so far. I don't know if this is disciplinary (history in my case).

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3w ago

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

Andrew Popp@andrewpopp.bsky.social · 3w ago

This essay is an excellent taster, perhaps, for @alirizataskale.bsky.social' forthcoming book on Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film. aeon.co/essays/silic...

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Ali Rıza Taşkale@alirizataskale.bsky.social · 3w ago

I've just submitted the manuscript of my new book, Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film, to Palgrave Macmillan! It reads six works of SF - Gibson, Stross, Robinson, Villeneuve, Hawley, Garland - as a way of seeing how finance colonizes the future. More soon.

Andrew Popp@andrewpopp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Spanish corporate elites! Italian privatisations! All your summer beach reads in one post and available at a click! Seriously, these are both great articles and you should read them.

Enterprise and Society@entandsoc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here at @entandsoc.bsky.social we are delighted to bring our readers two fine new articles. First up, from Juan A. Rubio-Mondéjar and coauthors, "The Renewal of the Corporate Elite in Spain (1920–2020)," using social network analysis and prosopography to explore renewal of Spanish corporate elites.

Andrew Popp@andrewpopp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Read here @alanlester.bsky.social's systematic dismantling of the "arguments" against the Church of England's reparative Project Spire. What is it, I wonder, that drive's someone to seek to minimise at every turn involvement in chattel slavery? Where are the psychic returns on that? It's weird.

Alan Lester@alanlester.bsky.social · 3w ago

2/2 It is being blocked through every tactic imaginable by a right wing faction within the church with allies in politics & the press. Please disseminate this to counter their historical propaganda: alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...