It is a truth universally acknowledged that a child is in want of a dog.
Eric Brandom
@ebrandom.bsky.social
Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
Two Women at a Window, c. 1655/1660 Murillo (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Sometimes people with shared interests speak different languages. Last week I read the new Theory & Methodologies section on Victorian studies in PMLA with huge interest, especially @emilysteinlight.bsky.social and Josephine McDonagh's pieces on on US and UK scholars' ambitions for the field at +
cambridge.org
These prices for apartments in silver spring, just on the DC line, at the metro stop, are from 2004, iirc.
"IT is true that a boy *can* do without a canine companion and live to enjoy life, but he is almost incomplete"
Can someone point me to a good book that explores the history of the National Archives and its role as a repository of collective memory. Thank you. #NARA #publichistory
If I were going to go really out on a critical limb, I would say that Nolan interpreted Odysseus as the guilt-ridden creator of a giant spectacle that eventually leads to mass illiteracy because he (Nolan) is ambivalent about his status as an auteur of big tentpole pictures.
One might even argue that this is the purpose of university teaching in the first place.
Sheila Liming@seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d agoIt’s syllabus prep season, and I’m thinking about what a privilege and benefit it must be for those academics who get to directly tie their teaching / syllabi to their research / writing. 1/5
Wow, automated translation _really_ doesn't handle old sayings well.
Regency-era mugs, gifts for #19thc children who managed to stick to their books & learn to read. Their mottoes are grim but maybe necessary admonitions, too, for the academic who's soldiering on while coming to terms with the fact that it's August now. I.e. I feel seen. #AcademicLife
Christopher Nolan’s In Search of Lost Time, with Timothée Chalamet as Marcel, Zendaya as Odette, Tom Hardy as Bane
Maddy B. Hare@mbhare.eurosky.social · 2d agoChristopher Nolan's Pale Fire
What are fun things to do in Pittsburgh for a 9 year old? The big institutions I know. The Children's museum is maybe for younger kids?
It made me so mad I wrote a Whole Thing just so I could stop thinking about it for a while and get on to other things: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/keep-your-...
Keep Your Friends Close
In which I offer a rebuttal to a "strategic" critique of the Prairieland defendants
cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com
à/s de 1968 : ― « C'était une époque où subsistait chez les hommes d'Etat une intelligence dont leurs héritiers se font une gloire d'être dénués. » (Raoul Vaneigem, 2008)
― « Le pouvoir ne protège plus, il se protège contre chacun. » (Raoul Vaneigem, 1967)
― « Ce qui, jusque là, allait de soi a soudainement besoin d'être réaffirmé avec force. » (Raoul Vaneigem, 1967)
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe v0.14: Added retching after initial vomiting
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe v0.45: Stopped natural animals from rampaging through sites owned by entities at peace with wildlife
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen v0.6: Fixed lag from creatures passing each other
