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Eric Brandom

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Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · Feb 22

"the common ruin of the contending classes"

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 10h

The old Eisenhower! Thought I recognized it.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 10h

As part of the larger transition out of capitalism into suburban communism, yeah

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

I regret to inform you that Marx & Engels have a solution to the vast problems besetting western democracies today stemming from the increasingly drastic urban-rural divide: "gradual abolition of the distinction between town & country via a more 'equitable' distribution of population geographically"

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 11h

we should put one of those signs up on the front door of calvin

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!

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Lindsay @alatriyana.bsky.social · 1d

I see *several* food banks and drives for military-related folks all the time. There are constant questions about how to get WIC and SNAP in spouse groups.

If we get to the 12th with no confirmation of military pay, it will not be good.

Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 1d

“Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues”

There isn’t a failsafe for military pay this time

1 in 3 “military families has less than $3,000 in savings,
[and]… nearly 1 in 4 service members has trouble putting food on the table.”

www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues

All troops will miss a paycheck if Congress does not agree on a deal to reopen the government before Oct. 15, the next pay date for the military.

www.stripes.com

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Ah -- that looks very cool, will have to take a look. Thank you!

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

That description of her book project sounds like exactly what I want to read!

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Ah hah! What I should do probably is look at her notes.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but as an occasional treat it's very nice

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

That guy was pretty good at words

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Is there good recent historical work on the Barbary pirates? I know Colley has written about narratives of enslavement, but is there anything by someone using non-European sources in a significant way? 🗃️

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Currency is important!

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Ah hah! Awesome

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

I'm almost ready to look up the source to find out if my assumption about the relative value of the suits is correct.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

This is from Hanna, *Pirate Nests* -- the note is to Herbert Heaton, "The Playing Card Currency in French Canada," American Economic Review, XVIII (1928), 649-662.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

"Currency was so scarce throughout New France...during the 1680s and 1690s that the French had to pay their troops in playing cards cut into quarters and valued according to their suit."

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

An advisor came to talk to one of my classes today, resources available to help students think about career choices and so on, and this song was running in my head the whole time open.spotify.com/track/5QpkOt...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 3d

Series of stained glass windows at St Louis U celebrating the evolution of textuality from Scroll to Manuscript to Printing Press to Computer

Window 1: Scroll

Window 2: Manuscript

Window 3: Printing Press

Window 4: Computer (from 1995!)

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 1d

Historians: if you had to pick one accessible text for an undergraduate student starting to explore the early British Industrial Revolution, what would you recommend? TIA
🗃️

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 3d

Red by Mark Rothko, 1968
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137899

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, bequest of Hannelore B. Schulhof, 2012

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Michael S Roth @msroth.bsky.social · 4d

My take on Compact for Collaboration: “Federal funding for universities should never depend on a loyalty oath...The health of our democracy depends on the freedom to work with the federal government without having to follow the ideological dictates of those in power.” www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Nine Colleges in Hot Seat as Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Sparks Sharp Reactions

Universities weigh whether to sign on to the president’s operating principles in exchange for a funding advantage.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 4d

This for instance is one of the bleakest things I’ve come across lately— almost a parody of the current ideology of education. We are witnessing an open attack on knowledge in favor of thin technical skills without even fake gestures toward moral or aesthetic center (“a creator economy”)

Insta screen cap:
Syracuse University Pauses Some Fine Arts and Digital Humanities Majors, Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

Following a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities, Syracuse University announced the establishment of its new Center for the Creator Economy. It is the first academic center of its kind on a college campus to focus on the current creator-driven economic landscape.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 4d

I have not! But this looks very to the point, thank you.