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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Sep 8

Also I’m bristling at the anti Graeber sentiments throughout the quoted thread lol

Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Sep 8

my friend wrote a great review of the book here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. By David Graeber and David Wengrow. New York: Macmillan Publishers, 2021. Pp. xii + 692 + 7 maps/figures. $35.00 (cloth). | Journal of Near Eastern S...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Aug 22

Some proof, from way back in 2017

Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Aug 22

Booooo, was here probably once or twice a month when watching my little kids in my PhD program

Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · Aug 22

Was just told that the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is in the process of tearing out Yesterday's Main Street. Sure glad I wrote about it before it was gone. I'm sorry they didn't understand how deeply it was loved. I've gotten so many messages. @msichicago.bsky.social

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · Aug 9

So many of Chicago’s community areas were named after other places (unoriginal), random historical figures (boring), or real estate developers (yuck).

And then there’s Greater Grand Crossing, so named because it grew around the most insane railroad junction the world ever saw.

1902 black and white photograph of Grand Crossing in Chicago

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GT @granitetide.bsky.social · Aug 22

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

90s computer desk with shelves for speakers, tower, printer, pull-out mouse and keyboard drawer etc

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · Aug 22

denmark rocks bc theyll notice that only 80% of their population is currently laying in the grass in a park with a six pack of 8% beer reading a book while on a 3 hour lunch break from work making $50/hr selling croissants at a cafe called GOBBO or FLUUZ and their government will spring into action

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 22

Confronting what its culture minister called a "reading crisis," the Danish government announced this week that it planned to make books exempt from a 25% value-added tax.

Facing a ‘Reading Crisis,’ Denmark Wants to Make Books Cheaper

The Danish government announced this week that it planned to make books exempt from a 25 percent value-added tax.

nyti.ms

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Aug 21

Not a religious studies person but I believe Hermes Trismegistus, or was it Aristotle, said “like is known by like”

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 21

‘The search for rational explanations of coastal phenomena in the Hellenistic period prompts the theorisation of time on a deeper scale.’

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

Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines

Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Aug 19

Just spent some time learning how to contribute to an open source, crowd-sourced map of benches (added my first one!), so yes I do in fact have an important writing deadline soon

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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · Aug 15

Any diagnosis of the problem that doesn’t clearly see the “lecturers” doing the grunt work as the *colleagues* whose research careers are already being sacrificed on the altar of Capital isn’t going to identify a path forward for the future of the academic humanities /5

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Aug 1

Get off the shed, Theodore Roethke

The picture contains a photo of a printed version of the poem "Child on Top of a Greenhouse" by Theodore Roethke. The poem reads: "The wind billowing out the seat of my britches, / My feet crackling splinters of glass and dried putty, / The half-grown chrysanthemums staring up like accusers, / Up through the streaked glass, flashing with sunlight,
A few white clouds all rushing eastward, / A line of elms plunging and tossing like horses, / And everyone, everyone pointing up and shouting!"

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jul 31

I think most would say yes, and I think it can, but if it is the same genre as Esther, you have to argue that through historical criticism of the text of Genesis/the Torah. As of now I'm comfortable saying it is part of the history of that genre...but I think its a really complicated question :)

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jul 31

Is this a message biblical scholarship can receive, or is Esther fated just to be the odd one out, a "strange biblical book"?

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jul 31

Curious, given the increasing recognition that Esther is perhaps the most epochal ancient Jewish contribution to that genre of world literature where you can "tell stories about anything in any way whatsoever" (G. Mazzoni), i.e. the novel.

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jul 31

Very interesting how little Esther figures into the volume Understanding the Hebrew Bible: Essays by Members of the Society for Old Testament Study, published by OUP this year as an authoritative treatment intended to "to update scholars and students on the current state of the study" of the HB

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jul 31

A Brothers Grimm sighting: always the sign of a good day, at least for philologists

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jul 14

Tempted to fill it with my own god

Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jul 14

Worshipping reality in general at the empty monopteros inside @stabiberlin.bsky.social

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jun 23

Yahweh as sun god confirmed (Stockholm, Storkyrkan)

Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jun 23

There are some beautiful book shrines at the NLI, but this new one is really wonderful. Here's one that I saw a few months ago:

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jun 23

My daughter was face to face with a catfish easily this big two summers ago in the shady shallows of the Schlachtensee. They're out there

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jun 18

Das große Schnitzel am Himmel

Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · Jun 18

Vulkan erneut ausgebrochen - Flugverkehr gestört#Indonesien

Vulkan erneut ausgebrochen - Flugverkehr gestört

Der Vulkan spukte eine kilometerhohe Aschewolke in den Himmel.

www.tagesschau.de

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jun 18

the sperm whale, scientific or poetic, lives not complete in any literature. Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life.

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Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social · Jun 16

The only part of the writing process that I always enjoy & which makes me feel like I am doing something worthwhile, is slouching towards the "big idea" after writing pages of notes & ideas and false outlines. Would it be better for me to get to it more quickly? My supervisor would probably agree...

Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · Jun 16

The latest on AI from the paper of record (gift link).

It's a thoughtful piece, and it does sound a note of caution here and there.

But it still understates the medium-term risk to our individual capacities, as sentient humans, to make our own sense of the world, past and present (and future).

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

www.nytimes.com

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