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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 2h

At the Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul. Lost in Lee Bul.

Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 3h

One advantage of jet lag that somehow lasts a week (!) is being able to enjoy the sunrise over the lake

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 19h

Looking forward to learning how Palmer illuminate and complicates what I imagine I already know. 4/4

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 19h

Also shunted off to the side: New Rome (the “Byzantine empire”), where Greek and Latin learning were preserved continuously since ancient times. The “Renaissance” as conventionally taught organizes our knowledge to make some things clear even as it hides other things. 3/

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 19h

Things that had to be awkwardly marginalized: the “Dark Ages”, the Middle Ages as something clearly distinct from the Renaissance (where do you put Sienese trecento art? What about Giotto, who’s way “too early”). 2/

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 19h

Reading Ada Palmer’s @adapalmer.bsky.social stunning INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE. Whose thesis may be super roughly described as: what we think we know as “the Renaissance” didn’t exist: it was a way later historians organized certain facts (& excluded others) to serve & justify ideologies of power 1/

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 3d

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 3d

‘The theme of exile guides the utilitarian design of the new show. Around a hundred archaeological finds from Gaza are laid out in a ground-floor bunker space, complete with strip lights, cold grey-blue walls and chilly steel benches.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’

This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 3d

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to authorities. In full: buff.ly/roPWvdO

HK bars 13 films from screening on nat. sec grounds since 2021 censorship law

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to...

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 4d

You don’t need Doug Ford qualifiers in this headline. The Hospital for Sick Children’s study showing “automated speed cameras reduce aggressive driving and speeding by almost half” didn’t make the cut.
Just call them speed cameras.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 4d

#Breaking: Doug Ford rejects mayors' plea to rethink banning speed camera 'cash grab'

‘The answer is no’: Doug Ford rejects mayors’ plea to rethink banning speed camera ‘cash grab’

“The only thing municipal speed cameras are 100 per cent effective at is taking money from hard-working people,” Doug Ford wrote in his response.

www.thestar.com

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 5d

Roger Cohen has a long, long article in the NYT today that examines, with a performatively thoughtful, “taking into account the sufferings of all peoples” tone, to ultimately conclude that committing acts of genocide against Gazans has been a terrible, painful experience for *Israelis*…. 1/

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 5d

4/ Having been victims of genocide imposes higher ethical requirements on Jews; it doesn’t release us from basic standards of humane behaviour in the interests of perpetuating survival.

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 5d

3/ The article is high point in the Jews as eternal victims narrative, an ideology, integral to Zionism, under whose soothing moral comfort I grew up in and had to slowly, with difficulty, reject as ideologically based.

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 5d

2/ A perfectly symptomatic example of who — in the eyes of increasingly marginalized U.S. conservative voices — are considered humans worthy of compassion, & who are marginalized victims condemned to passive-voice-inflicted suffering. Cohen seems oblivious to the moral pit he’s buried himself into.

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 5d

Roger Cohen has a long, long article in the NYT today that examines, with a performatively thoughtful, “taking into account the sufferings of all peoples” tone, to ultimately conclude that committing acts of genocide against Gazans has been a terrible, painful experience for *Israelis*…. 1/

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