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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Apr 14

This is how your email finds me.

A man sitting and looking towards the viewer of the engraving. The man leans his arm on a parapet and is surrounded by female personifications of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture as well as a winged angel with fanfare trumpets (Glory), Father Time with his scythe and the skeletal figure of Death clutching an arrow; a putti holds aloft a wreath and carries a palm. The image is part of a larger engraving, made around 1600, and nowadays at the BM 58490001 (Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/58490001 ).

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 7h

Kein Veggie-Wurstschlitten!

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jan 17

Why not learn a German word today, #skystorians?

"Wurstschlitten" - literally a sausage sledge. Like the Basle version of these sledges, a #Wurstschlitten was a sledge used in the eighteenth century with a seat bench running round the inside of the body.

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Screenshot of a Wurstschlitten from the website of the Historisches Museum Basel: https://www.hmb.ch/museen/sammlungsobjekte/einzelansicht/s/basler-wurst-schlitten/

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 7h

Auch keine Veggie-Wurst.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Sep 26

The Verwurstung of books.

In 1974, the artist Dieter Roth experimented with the materiality of books - and made, among other "literature sausages", Hegel's complete work to 20 sausages using traditional sausage recipes, replacing the sausage's meat with book paper.

#skystorians #bookhistory

Dieter Roth's "literature sausages" in an exhibition: Hegel's complete work looking like 20 sausages.

4 of Dieter Roth's "literature sausages"

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 10h

Typographic apparitions 👻

Spotted in a 1498 Cologne missal: a case of off-set printing, where ink from the forme (or from another printed page?) accidentally transferred onto these printed page.

#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Detail of a page with musical staf printed, added music by hand, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

Detail of a page with liturgical text printed, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11h

Stimmt!

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11h

Satire aus.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11h

Um die Verwechslungsgefahr zu minimieren, soll nur das Papierbuch im Kodex-Format als Buch bezeichnet sein; alles andere sind #Buchersatzprodukte.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11h

Das wird dem aufstrebenden ebook-Anteil im deutschen Buchhandel einen heftigen Schlag versetzen.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 13h

Die "Initiative Buchersatzprodukte" reibt sich die Hände und bereitet im Stillen nun eine Klage auf Umbenennung aller Bücher, die nicht aus Papier sind, vor. #ebooks

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 14h

German Buchhandelsgeschichte - English speaking #bookhistory - French style Histoire du livre

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 17h

Today, I am in solidarity with my British humanities colleagues and all their *checks notes* "low-quality courses".

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19h

Dim-lit silence it the best.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19h

#libsky #bookhistory

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 20h

It is always the Reading Room of the Special Collections where the magic happens.

Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 20h

As a historian of the 19th century, I regularly think about who might have sat next to each other in the Reading Room of the BL without either knowing who the other one was, while both were researching and writing world-changing texts.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

No. Won’t do that.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the point. No one will easily understand.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

I have been contacted by colleagues asking about phantom publications and it's always terrible when you start thinking "damn, I really should have written that."

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

To add to this one more point: #genAI will surely blur the accessibility to our cultural memories, as it actively manipulates the streams and sources of memories accessible. In a nutshell, #historiography will have to deal with lots of more plurals of everything.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jul 31

I just read a clearly AI-fueled or AI-written book in my academic niche, and while I stumble to finish it, I predict that future historiography will have literature categories and markers like *published post 2024* or *published ante 2024*. Our days will be seen as the barrier between these worlds.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

The pamphlet was printed in 1605 and will be highlighted in more detail in my upcoming book about early modern news. #NewsHistory

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

"... yackety-yak, blah-blah, have you heard the news yet?"

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Good point!

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Gossiping is both an art and an annoying practice. In #earlymodern Europe, a gossipmonger would often be depicted as a person with three mouths. Like these three fellas that made it on a title page of a pamphlet in 1605, a Turk, a Hungarian, and a German. #skystorians #gossip

A detail from a German pamphlet showing three male human heads: a Turk, A Hungarian, and a German. All heads have three mouths and you can see the tongues. The pamphlet was printed in 1605 and will be highlighted in more detail in my upcoming book about early modern news.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

Really I should have been born in the seventeenth century, when random speling was normal.

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