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Michèle Plott

@micheleplott.bsky.social

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Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · Nov 6

motherwell hitting harder w/this today.

Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · Nov 6

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 by Robert Motherwell, 1971

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137843

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Gift, Agnes Gund, 1984

Robert Motherwell © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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Sharif 🎬169 @shadowtrace.bsky.social · 15h

We once had a beautiful, warm home a refuge from danger, cold, and rain. I’d return from work tired, and Lina would open the door; her hug and the scent of our home erased all fatigue. Now it’s all gone, Lina. They left us nothing to hold onto. Can I ever get my home back?
chuffed.org/project/sharif

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 16h

🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English,

Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST

est paru *enfin* en français!!!

Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹

www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...

Michel-Rolph Trouillot : « Faire taire le passé », une autre approche de l’Histoire

Trente ans après sa parution en anglais, Silencing the Past de Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) paraît enfin en français sous le titre Faire taire le passé – Pouvoir et production historique (Lux Éd...

www.amitiefm.ht

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 20h

Also in German news

Portland: Kreative Kostümproteste gegen Trumps Einwanderungspolitik

In Oregon bieten Menschen in Spaßkostümen Donald Trumps Anti-Einwanderer-Behörde die Stirn. Das geht so weit, dass die Heimatschutzministerin Worte an ein »Huhn« richtet – und der US-Präsident die Nat...

www.spiegel.de

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

The closer you get to peak baseball, the less fun everyone has. It's a statistical fact

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10h

Then it ends and everyone immediately agrees it was the greatest thing they've ever seen

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 10

For Thelonious Monk's birthday, this great photo by William P Gottlieb
Minton's Playhouse, New York, September 1947

"Although it's sort of not in my department & I don't know too much about that type of music, I like it an awful lot. Wonderful piano."
- Count Basie

A young Monk at the piano, in front of an Art Deco mural. He’s dressed in a striped suit.

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rex 🦖 @rexs1gma.bsky.social · 2d

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23h

Tens of thousands of Palestinians returning to their homes in northern Gaza as the ceasefire takes effect.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 18h

The vibe feels a bit dour (alas). What small (or big!) wins can you muster a celebration for this week?

I got knocked down by complex data, but I've managed to half stand again. I also learned a lot in @yaelniv.bsky.social 's lab meeting. (Computational Psychiatrists are heros! Wow it's hard).

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 18

Happiness has many more meanings besides and can't be divorced from the situated politics in which it is entangled. Pain is no less complex. One could argue that modern (since C18) happiness has been about economic satisfaction (serving whom?!); and pain (grief) is defined by failure to comply.

Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Aug 18

So many emotion terms have double meanings. Like *happiness* as "living virtuously" (eudaimonic) vs happiness as "the pursuit of pleasure not pain" (hedonic).

Nontrivial progress in the neurosci. of the 2nd is in scope for this era, I think. (How! Exciting!).

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Insightful reflections about the happiness concept and its semantic space may be drawn from psychological research. Scholars working in this field have conceptualized happiness on the basis of two approaches: eudaimonic and hedonic (Deci & Ryan, 2008; Haybron, 2008; McMahon, 2006; Ryan & Deci, 2000; Sotgiu, 2013;White,2006). Eudaimonic happiness is a concept originally defined by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics. He stated that happiness is only attainable by living virtuously. Similarly, on the basis of Stoicism, Seneca and Epictetus affirmed that the main path to happiness is through virtuous living, by facing and resisting temptations that could corrupt personal inner harmony. The eudaimonic trend was followed by Christian philosophers including Augustine and Tommaso d’Aquino. Conversely, hedonic happiness is a concept that refers to the Cyrenaic school of Aristippus and Epicurus, who considered the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain to be the main path to happiness.

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 17h

More of this, please.

& thank you, MIT & President Sally Kornbluth

Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 17h

An excellent response by MIT’s President Sally Kornbluf rejecting the Trump compact.

Other universities should do the same.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 1d

MIT Rejects the Compact!
I am so proud.
"The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief ...

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 17h

More of this, please.

& thank you, MIT & President Sally Kornbluth

Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 17h

An excellent response by MIT’s President Sally Kornbluf rejecting the Trump compact.

Other universities should do the same.

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 17h

Word.

Jesus. H. WORD.

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 22h

Just spent hours corroborating the facts for one sentence of a chapter. People have no idea what goes into history writing. 🗃️

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19h

I did hear about this and I don’t know that I have TEA but I have THOUGHTS

first of all let us not skip past the symbolic significance of “Leo signed the document on Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi”

Julia L @calenmir.bsky.social · 19h

@clairewillett.bsky.social wanted to make sure you hear this (and hear any tea you might have regarding this): www.ncronline.org/pope-leo-bla...

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

www.ncronline.org

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Dmytro Spivakov @dmytro-spivakov.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re reading this post I encourage you to contribute, this is a form of resistance available to anyone

savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/

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Securitas @securitas.bsky.social · 1d

Kyiv without electricity on both sides of the Dnepr, disrupted power supply.

Russia is going full terror campaign ahead of the winter - again.

There has yet to be a significant punishment of Russia for behaving this way. There wasn't in the years before, hence they feel completely safe doing that.

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

Air raid sirens howling in a completely dark city is some kind of cinematic horror. It’s mornings like this when it’s remarkably hard to believe in any possible better future, I just feel like we’re alone and this is it

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23h

Something is seriously wrong in Moscow region of russia.

The Federal State Enterprise "Scientific Research Center for Rocket and Space Technology" is... smocky.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23h

Russia destroyed an agricultural enterprise in Kharkiv region

Seven warehouses, fuel trucks, and farming equipment were obliterated

Russia killed 13,000 pigs on a farm in Kharkiv region earlier this month. Bombed our largest hummus producer. Now this. Hunger is once again their weapon of choice ‼️

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1d

Ukrainian teacher lets kids sleep through morning lessons after the night of Russian terror.

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 23h

🧵🧵🧵

As for her call for non-academics to get involved: one thing you should do if you see attacks on academic freedom or administrators capitulating to Trump's extortion at your alma mater is to write the uni/college president & express your outrage. They need to hear from alumni ASAP. Template👇

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 23h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 22h

Latino Studies.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it.
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 18h

❤️

Shawn @ftlshawn.bsky.social · 5d

Amsterdam Dog With A View.