Jeremy Bassetti

@jeremybassetti.com

Professor of Humanities. Interdisciplinarian. Human. Currently thinking about mountains. More info ⤵ jeremybassetti.com/link-in-bio

We need more school administrators - especially at smaller, two-year schools whose students are less prepared than their peers at more selective institutions - to show some spine and start unplugging shit. Fewer screens and more books. While we are at it, smaller classes too. This is the way.

Christopher W. Jones@cwjones.bsky.social · 3d ago

An exemplary policy at UChicago: - Technology ban in class. - Total AI ban. Students may not use it, instructors may not assign it. Exceptions to the latter for narrow purposes must be approved at the administrator level. - Instructors may not use AI for grading. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...

Today is the Entrada Folklórica for Bolivia’s Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña. This weekend is the mass and pilgrimage. Sad to miss it all this year. Here is a photo of me in a mine with my stone, which was confiscated by airport security on my way home.

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The four Americans returning home [in caskets] were Tyler James Feehan, Michael Emmanuel Swinton, Angel S. Rampersad and Isabella Gonzales. They ranged in age from 19 to 25, and hailed from the entire breadth of the United States, from Hawaii to North Carolina, New York to Texas.

You've finished the manuscript. Now what? Join our AHA Online webinar on July 28 at 12 p.m. ET exploring the nuts and bolts of book publishing, from acquisitions and contracts to marketing. With Mike Baccam, Levi Stahl, and Elizabeth Townsend Gard. Register now.

Book Publishing 101: Acquisitions, Contracts, and Promotion for Historians – AHA

Book Publishing 101: Acquisitions, Contracts, and Promotion for Historians AHAOnline Tuesday, July 28, 12–1 p.m. ET You’ve written a dissertation or drafted a new manuscript and are in talks to publis...

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Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Publication day for my new book Upland: The Strange History and Vital Future of Britain's Mountains. It's essentially about how they were made, literally and in our heads, and how we used and abused them, and how they still carry us along. Enjoy!

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I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

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Ancient metaphors of verticality inform and influence contemporary discourse. In his recent Encyclical MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS, Pope Leo XIV coined the term "Babel syndrome," which he defined as...

The humanities aren't under attack. Institutional humanities are — universities, departments, funding. But artists and thinkers will keep creating. They did it before universities existed and will after. Institutions feed off the humanities. They aren't the humanities.

One of the best books I've read this year was published in 1920. A. G. Sertillanges wrote "The Intellectual Life" as a guide for scholars, researchers, and writers who feel called to do serious thinking. It asks more of you than most so-called "productivity" books ever would. Exactly what I needed.

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A Dominican priest wrote a great book on what it means to live seriously as an intellectual. Published 1920. Rooted in Thomist philosophy. Dated in places, but useful in others. His argument: this “career” is a literal calling from god and is best understood as a way of living in the world. More:

Summer Break, Renovations, A. G. Sertillanges, The Work Begins

Some notes on summer, “The Intellectual Life,” and making space — literal and figurative — for doing The Work.

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