Well, this is just downright masterful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

Saw a goldfinch yesterday and am still thinking about how yellow it was

ICYMI: new series on Horkheimer’s 1939 “The Jews & Europe” essay—ID’d by early readers as anti-fascist, communist, anti-Zionist. Loved by Benjamin, hated by Scholem. Co-auth by Adorno, + memos by Kirchheimer & others. Part I: the 1st draft & a report by Adorno

a different stalin jstor.org/stable/commu....

Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field (1865)

I remember reading an interview from way back then with Matmos. They were so frustrated with a request from Bjork to get the sound of a specific flower opening in the morning.

What would you like the headline of your obituary to be? 'Publisher of the Dead Joins Them.' —Edwin Frank, NYRB editor, answers a few questions for Cultured magazine.

Dr. Seuss, They’re Serving Roast Adolf at Joe’s House Tonight. PM Magazine, 1941-12-24. jstor.org/stable/commu....

What a good book. I don't know that I can handle five more volumes of this.

"as intimately aware of one another as couples in the first flush of love or nearsighted creatures."

I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product,

Thursdays are for making crepes for dinner and keeping half an eye on the tornado warning.

I appreciate this kind of reflexive scholarly positioning (from 2007)

"the DOJ may have successfully prosecuted the activists under the terrorism law for tagging a building with the phrase “ICE = Pigs.”"

I am filling out my cover design questionnaire and I have to give them 6 book covers that I like for inspiration. What is your favorite book cover and why? Please include alt text for images!

Choosing to believe this is somehow pro-Bolshevik propaganda. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

happy to end what i believe will be my final email of the day with "I like the idea of bringing revolution to the British at the point of a bayonet."

Still annoyed about this. when i make the students buy a book, I want them to at least be able to *have* the book later.

This morning recorded an hour of oral history with a gentleman who must be nearly 90. Honestly a delight.

Did you see the 4k remastered Rothkos

Do images get through again? jstor.org/stable/commu....

Something a student wrote earlier today reminded me of the line from the opener on this album, which i haven't thought about in years: "i drank my coffee and listened to records/and when i say records i mean mp3s" themouthbreathers.bandcamp.com/album/appeti...

"Along the cool sequester'd vale of life/They kept the noiseless tenor of their way."

“a nineteenth-century man’s magnificent and pathetic attempt to think the twentieth century.”

Tell you what, Graziani would have loved social media. A man who never forgot a slight or forgave an enemy, infinitely petty, with an endless capacity to argue with other people's writing. A truly epic hater. Here he is kicking off about an article he disliked & arguing with the editor's reply.

My copy (from 2018 or 19?) of Maza's Thinking about history (U Chicago) still has a relatively intact binding. But the pages are coming out of basically all of my students' copies.

"oh chat I might be cooked" -13yo playing hearts online

had to double check the notes to remind myself if i cut that bit (i did not) and wow this was a cursed series of footnotes

Did I post this already? Maybe? This is what being 17 was like for Simone Weil. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ly...

Would like to meet the person driving the subaru with the CORV1D license plate, just to know what they're like

I *think* this whole banned books display (in a Barnes and Noble) is a joke? Genuinely not sure.

Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,

"all four districts “had policies that were likely to prevent schools from notifying parents of their child’s so-called ‘gender transition,’ even if the parent requested their child’s records,” which violates FERPA."

Just realized I did the day on Battle of Algiers without mentioning that it makes a cameo in OBAA

What’s the most abject contemporary genre? I’m going with short-form video, with special shoutout to explainers filmed in cars

Man, scratch a liberal am I right

frictionmaxxing cannot be a real word people use

Put him in your zoom background so he learns how far off he was in describing hell.

IF YOU HAVE MANY DESIRES YOUR LIFE WILL BE INTERESTING

Straightening things up and trying to decide if having this guy looking over my shoulder as I work is going to make me uncomfortable. I guess we will see.

"In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas"

Anyone have a good ethnography/history of private equity (or family offices or similar) intra-organizational dynamics as distinct from the big banks? Obviously love Liquidated for the latter. Have Applebaum & Batt for the former but want more.

“The upheaval that took place in Kansas in the summer and fall of 1890, can hardly be diagnosed as a political campaign. It was a religious revival, a crusade, a pentecost of politics in which a tongue of flame sat upon every man, and each spake as the spirit gave him utterance.”

Friends, 🗃️, do y'all know of a really good Reconstruction historiography at an undergrad level? Having a hard time finding an intro with authors names attached

Is there a classic rederence for thinking about military history from a labor history perspective? "War workers" and so on? 🗃️

People who loved the essay: Walter Benjamin (no. 1 fan), Olga Lang People who helped co-author it: Theodor W. Adorno, Otto Kirchheimer, Leo Löwenthal, Katharina von Hirsch People who hated/feared it: Gershom Scholem (no. 1 hater), late 50s *&* late 60s Horkheimer (no. 1 fearer)

But then we turn to one sneering, well-dressed man. Laughing, as if he's done this before, he shouts, "Down with the Jews!" His goal: to fracture the collective and turn the crowd against themselves. But this time, it doesn't work. The people around him turn in anger and mercilessly beat him.