"Cheiro" experimenting with Prof. D'Odiardi's "Thought-Machine" (1896)

John Berger joke about Joseph of Nazareth

chin up Charlie ey

Lovely naturalistic relief of a Hoopoe and Ibis, carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago! Limestone wall relief from the 5th Dynasty mortuary temple of Userkaf at Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

"Carnation" by @wordkunst.bsky.social a beautiful book, the feel & weight of it, the care taken with every aspect

The industrialization of language production is destroying the artisanal production of text. We should be clear about what this is: The real subsumption of life under the logic of capital

The funniest thing in the world is going feral and writing weird poems about trees and snails and seaweed and then having to become an institutional contractor via a complicated vendor system in order to publish a couple of them #blessed

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Zum 65. Geburtstag der Galeristin Johanna 'Mutter' Ey (geboren Stocken 4. März 1864 - 27. August 1947) schrieb Max Ernst 1929: "grosses ey wir loben dich, ey wir preisen deine staerke, vor dir neigt das rheinland sich und kauft gern und billig deine werke!"

"Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans" (DOI 10.1162/ANTI.5KP1) creates a craft to explore the interior space of a GAN. By @ninabegus.bsky.social @metahaven.bsky.social & @begus.bsky.social Interface(s) by @metahaven.bsky.social & Riccardo Petrini - latentspacecraft.antikythera.org

crucifixi⚽n (Ricardo Peláez)

clever, elegant repair job

El canciller alemán codo con codo con un matón que está intimidando a otro miembro de la UE, lo que ve el que vive…

Spring's Promise, Marjorie Miller (circa 1925).

syncretic memorial

Die untertanen maulten und murrten auf den plattformen Maul maul Murr murr

the colour of the whole Marguerite Duras, from ‘The Embassy is a Boat Riddled With Holes’, in ‘My Cinema’, tr Daniella Shreir

saw "have a goo" (have a look) used on here like a little electroshock; hadn't hardly heard it in decades; must have used to use it daily

I remember during English class, the teacher asked, "Do you agree?" and I was the only one who said no, because I didn't know the word "agree."

Near home of Composer Vaughn Williams at Leith Hill. Mossy woodland in continuous drizzly rain.

Alt text is like having a special room in the house just for making errors in; a gallery to exhibit all your hasty misperceptions, misconceptions, misattributions, mistranslations

Grover Cleveland, second inauguration, March 1893

"always the golfer, never the wildfire victim."

Painting created by Anthony Dare c.1964, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where he was compelled to live. This is one of the many portraits of art therapist Edward Adamson in The Adamson Collection & one of only four surviving works by Dare

"newfangled" older than you'd think www.etymonline.com/word/fangled "fangled up in new"

I once was vaguely involved with Sound Studies, not really by choice an odd heterogeneous field, some incredible stuff, some less so the worst thing was the onomatopoeic invocations books that began "this book wants to whizzle! and fizz! and crackle! and whoosh!!!! WE WILL LIBERATE THE EARHOLE!"

great at digging up & collating Francophone material blithely uses "silence" to mean about 10 different things: tranquillity, placidity, absence of speech, heat death of the universe, etc.

found some Euro-flotsam

our effervescent friend Adam Greenfield, alas no longer on here has a series of conversations about organizing-to-survive Lifepod lifepod.transistor.fm

a decision in life is now "a trade" recently heard a person discuss the "reputational risk" some banal everyday choice might "expose" them to

landlocked & wishing for the coast

breakwater & informal memorial site

Less than 2 months ago EU leaders were insisting on strategic independence from an increasingly aggressive US demanding territorial expansion in Greenland. Now, they're tripping over their heels to join that US in an illegal war of aggression and regime change. What weak cowards with short memories.

La grande exposition "Cartes imaginaires : inventer des mondes" (commissariat : Julie Garel-Grislin et Cristina Ion), c'est bientôt à la BnF de Paris - du 24 mars au 19 juillet. Incontournable pour les amateurs de worldbuilding et d'histoire...

brandish a modish ice-cream

all action tonight

Mathias Énard on poet Georg Trakl, from Granta a while back: granta.com/georg-trakl/

Asta Nielsen tram ride #2 rich woman wants to buy baby from unmarried mother The Great Moment (DE, 1911)

search merch of yesteryear

Made a friend and spent a while in conversation. Usually in the middle of a field, but now chattering away on the path. I very much liked the Harry Partch crossed with Grand Guinal nature of this beast. Would flip between rapid EDM to funeral march depending on the breeze. Would spin to slice you.

if Spurs go down, Kane to return & play a season in the Championship, Netflix would be all over it

un taller que vale la pena un día superintensivo de Super 8 ByN Pablo es maestro y connoisseur de la película análoga en todos sus aspectos

The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads" I co-edited is now out! My long introductory essay, "The Perils of Negative Exceptionalism: German Memory Culture from Model to McCarthyism," is available open access: read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...

One of the cool images from my book is that of Bhupendra Nath Dutt's fake passport under the name 'Balthazar Dutt'.

Shower of st☆rs P✧ge from Galileo Galilei's, Sidereus nuncius, 1610 ✵

Around the world, states have become dependent on Elon Musk and his infrastructure. What is Musk’s unprecedented rise a symptom of? And what does it mean for state sovereignty? We spoke with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com about their new book Muskism. 🔗 verfassungsblog.de/muskism/

On a retrouvé Lalanne ! 📷 Jeff Mermelstein

JOHNSON: For as any knave knows, a man is better falsely accused than wrongly accused, and indeed vice versa BOSWELL: Aye.

case of saints