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John Raimo

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Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Mostly history, literature, & arts here; desperately trying not to post political content yet here we are now.

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · Feb 27

1/3 Brief reintroduction for Bluesky. I’m a professional historian mostly focused on postwar Europe, cultural & intellectual history, the history of the book, reading and publishing just now in German, French, Italian, and Czech contexts. Also keenly interested in political history, visual arts ...

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 13m

Luis Baylón, Les Espagnols (Éditions Delpire, 2025; #photography, #skystorians) : www.delpireandco.com/produit/les-...

Les Espagnols Luis Baylón - delpire & co

Toute sa vie Baylón a cherché, selon ses mots, à « retranscrire la réalité de manière naturelle. Sans composer ou modifier la scène. […] Photographier les gens tels qu’ils sont, tels qu’ils se présent...

www.delpireandco.com

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 15m

Tamlin Magee, "Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games" (@theguardian.com; #skystorians): www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games

A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm

www.theguardian.com

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 19m

Cf. editions.ehess.fr/ouvrages/ouv...

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 20m

Pour @stuartelden.bsky.social, @spoerhase.bsky.social, @jonasknatz.bsky.social, @ekphrastictactic.bsky.social, @ebrandom.bsky.social et @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social parmi d'autres #skystorians.

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 21m

Marion Fontaine (@marion49.bsky.social) et Laurent Jeanpierre, Sciences sociales aux bords du récit (@editions.ehess.fr, 2025 ; #skystorians) www.ehess.fr/fr/ouvrage/s...

Sciences sociales aux bords du récit

Le récit, comme objet et comme horizon, fait aujourd’hui retour dans les sciences sociales. Manifestes, articles et ouvrages invitent à revenir à la narration et, pourquoi pas, à imiter la littérature...

www.ehess.fr

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 1h

Gorgeous, vulnerable piece that gives me a bit of hope, too:

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 3h

Just going to stick this here for no reason at all (ENG PDF) .... Ernst Fraenkel, The Dual State (Oxford, 1941; #skystorians): archive.org/details/in.e....

Reposted by John Raimo

DLA Marbach @dlamarbach.bsky.social · 1d

›Transatlantic Jewish Publishing: The Legacy of Schocken Books‹. Welcome & opening remarks by @annakinder.bsky.social, #DLAMarbach, @ksina.bsky.social, @uni-muenster.de, and @carolinejessen2.bsky.social, @dubnow.bsky.social. Programme: www.dla-marbach.de/kalender/det... @volkswagenstiftung.de

Anna Kinder am 8. Oktober 2025 im Deutschen Literaturarchiv. Fotos: DLA Marbach.

Kai Sina am 8. Oktober 2025 im Deutschen Literaturarchiv. Fotos: DLA Marbach.

Caroline Jessen am 8. Oktober 2025 im Deutschen Literaturarchiv. Fotos: DLA Marbach.

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

7/9:

“Che siamo schiavi, privi di ogni diritto, esposti a ogni offesa, votati a morte quasi certa, ma che una facoltà ci è rimasta, e dobbiamo difenderla con ogni vigore perché è l'ultima: la facoltà di negare il nostro consenso.”
~ Primo Levi

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

6/9:

»Seid unbequem, seid Sand, nicht das Öl im Getriebe der Welt!«
~ Günther Eich

»Liebe und Arbeit sind die Eckpfeiler unseres Menschseins.«
~ Sigmund Freud

»Alles Nationale ist längst Provinz geworden.«
~ Thomas Mann

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

5/9:

« S’il ne faut pas toujours dire ce que l’on pense, il faut toujours penser ce que l’on dit. »
~ Anne-Thérèse, marquise de Lambert

»Die Welt is nicht wahr, aber sie will durch den Menschen und die Wahrheit zur Heimkehr gelangen.«
~ Ernst Bloch

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

4/9:

« Car l'angoisse est factice : nous sommes faits pour bien respirer. »
~ Gaston Bachelard

« L’espérance est un risque à courir. »
~ Georges Bernanos

« Le monde se défait. Mais je suis le monde. »
~ Aimé Césaire

« Faire et se taire. »
~ Gustave Flaubert

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

3/9:

“It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
~ P.G. Wodehouse

“The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”
~ Virginia Woolf

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

2/9:

“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
~ Frank O'Hara

“It is a fearful heart that builds a wall and it is a fearless heart that can live without it.”
~ Tilda Swinton

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

7/9: “Che siamo schiavi, privi di ogni diritto, esposti a ogni offesa, votati a morte quasi certa, ma che una facoltà ci è rimasta, e dobbiamo difenderla con ogni vigore perché è l'ultima: la facoltà di negare il nostro consenso.”
~ Primo Levi

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

6/9: »Seid unbequem, seid Sand, nicht das Öl im Getriebe der Welt!«
~ Günther Eich

»Liebe und Arbeit sind die Eckpfeiler unseres Menschseins.«
~ Sigmund Freud

»Alles Nationale ist längst Provinz geworden.«
~ Thomas Mann

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

5/9: « S’il ne faut pas toujours dire ce que l’on pense, il faut toujours penser ce que l’on dit. »
~ Anne-Thérèse, marquise de Lambert

»Die Welt is nicht wahr, aber sie will durch den Menschen und die Wahrheit zur Heimkehr gelangen.«
~ Ernst Bloch

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

4/9: « Car l'angoisse est factice : nous sommes faits pour bien respirer. »
~ Gaston Bachelard

« L’espérance est un risque à courir. »
~ Georges Bernanos

« Le monde se défait. Mais je suis le monde. »
~ Aimé Césaire

« Faire et se taire. »
~ Gustave Flaubert

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

3/9: “It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
~ P.G. Wodehouse

“The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”
~ Virginia Woolf

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

2/9: “In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
~ Frank O'Hara

“It is a fearful heart that builds a wall and it is a fearless heart that can live without it.”
~ Tilda Swinton

Reposted by John Raimo

Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 2d

"Precisely because they have been losing court cases over free speech and visas for foreign students, Trumpists now seek to entrap universities in a deal that effectively removes the protections of federal law and gives the administration arbitrary power over them."

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

www.theguardian.com

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

This is also a great book that I wish got more attention, just in case you don't know it and can crack through the French. (There's some Czech material in here, too.) And ... I'll stop nerding out here! www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...

Traduire sous contraintes - Littérature et communisme (1947-1989) - CNRS Editions

Traduire sous contraintes - Littérature et communisme (1947-1989) (EAN13 : 9782271068095) édité par CNRS Editions - L’instauration des régimes communistes en Europe de l’Est entraîne une transformatio...

www.cnrseditions.fr

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

Paweł Zajas (he's just just brilliant) & other scholars are starting to work on infra-Warsaw-Pact literary transfers, translations, &c., not least focusing on the Leipzig book festival which served--among a TON of others (Belgrade, Warsaw, &c.)--as a locus for postwar eastern literary exchanges, &c.

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for the kind note! Was just on the verge of pulling everything from Academia.edu given the new terms, but here's one thing though a bit more tilted to German-Czech issues: www.academia.edu/119518042/U_.... It should survive Google Translate if needed! Then there's a diss to keep revising ....

Übersetzen lektorieren, Lektorieren übersetzen. Zum Übersetzungsprozess von Věra Linhartovás Diskurs über den Lift im Suhrkamp Verlag (2024)

Zum Übersetzungsprozess von Věra Linhartovás Diskurs über den Lift im Suhrkamp Verlag Wie lässt sich eine Übersetzung lektorieren? Wie übersetzt man ein Lektorat? Wie laufen korrigierte Übersetzungen ...

www.academia.edu

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2d

This is very much a question for @spoerhase.bsky.social ...!