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Faith S. Harden

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early modern Iberia & beyond | author: Arms & Letters: Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain (U Toronto Press) | amateur aerialist, circus enthusiast, poetry fan

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · Nov 15

How wonderful to run across this just now! Thank you for reading and reviewing Arms and Letters. And I agree - a Japanese translation would be amazing :)

あ @a3dayo.bsky.social · Jul 19

Faith S Harden著『Arms and Letters』ようやく読み終わった。
近世スペインの8人の軍人・元兵士の自伝的著作について分析した本で、軍事史というより文学評論に近い。
普段軍事史の本の中で見かけない単語や表現、言い回しがいっぱい出てきて読むのにめちゃくちゃ時間がかかってしまった。
ただ近世ヨーロッパの元兵士の自伝の評論をやるというコンセプトがまず割とおもしく、著者の分析も参考になる点が多い。
著者の焦点は兵士たちの持つ栄誉(Honra)概念に当てられていて、異なる時代・地域で活動していた兵士たちがどのような栄誉を求めていたのかを解明していく。

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · 2d

and Christian Lorentzen’s review is an absolute delight. “No circus stays in town forever, and some comets never come back”

“No circus stays in town forever, and some comete never come back”

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · 2d

many things are bad but the new Thomas Pynchon looks great

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

FYI happening this Thursday—free and open to all. Just click the link to register. Featuring @dwcongdon.com, @dawnd.bsky.social, and Alyssa Napier talking all things diss to book—what’s the diff b/w them, how to find a press/approach an editor, tips for proposal writing. Join us & spread the word!

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 2d

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · 2d

stealing!

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s proposed “compact” with the selected institutions “demands a near-complete surrender of core academic freedoms of the university.”

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Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · 5d

“The dialectic of enlightenment: all this loot, all this beauty, all this murder”

Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 9d

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza

I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)

Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 8d

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 11d

Dude! You know of the Noem,
From out the Noem-garden;
Oft under the knife,
The heartless dog-shooter
Called out for aid to Malt-Swiller,
Grain-slurper, late of the Fail-road
Along the sky-cable, to put down
Rebellion in War-Ravaged Portland

Donald J. Trump & 0 @realDonald Trump • 11m
At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 15d

Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · 15d

(personally declining to be raptured because I need to be here for the cain culto brujería drop)

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 16d

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 22d

“There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war.It is larger than that.The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history’s rule, nor is it the passive surrender to the status quo … [It] is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.” —TMorrison

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · 26d

Found on my camera roll from @lazz.bsky.social’s screening of “Potential History of Francesc Tosquelles, Catalonia and Fear” a few months ago… Radical psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles cracks a pun & a smile while dropping the secret to collective life ✨🧀

Tosquelles says: “Faire magie” and “fromage” are the two teats of culture.

Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · 28d

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Loreto G @gumucia.bsky.social · 29d

Buen martes para todos ✨️

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sé que entre todas las palabras, una
hay que recordarla o figurarla.
El secreto, a mi ver, está en usarla
con humildad. Es la palabra luna.

www.gaceta.unam.mx/la-luna-un-p...

La Luna, un poema de Borges - Gaceta UNAM

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · Sep 5

today in library book stamps

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Donnie (Donald) W. Wood | דוני | دوني @aljamiadonnie.bsky.social · Sep 4

Call for Contributions: postmedieval cluster,
“Approaching Premodern Critical Race Studies in
Iberia and Latin America”

Titles, format of submission, and abstracts of no more than 300 words are due by October 15th, 2025.

#CFP #postmedieval #medievalsky #criticalracestudies

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hopescrolling, hopescotching

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Aug 30

hopescrolling

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · Aug 27

Man Ray #botd
The Rope Dancer Accompanies
Herself with Her Shadows
1916

A collage of geometric shapes in red, green, blue, and yellow, cut from the negative space surrounding a tightrope dancer.

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Aug 26

‘small-scaled acts of reconfiguration can torque a fallen idiom from the inside, interrupting the smooth functionality of a world whose obscenity is coded into the very structures of everyday thought and speech… 2/6

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · Aug 20

one way to combat the enshittification of the internet is to create your own research worlds in an infinitely searchable and scalable platform like zotero with local files + deep annotation. +zotero allows you to make local copies of websites

i have folders for each subject of interest...

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · Aug 19

One book opens another— alchemists proverb

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Aug 18

Promoting the idea that higher education is antiquated & failing is a win for corporations bc (1) it gives them a product to sell-ed tech-that will supposedly fix our broken teaching and (2) it deflects attention away from the real problem which is systemic assaults by corporate America on workers.

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 15

If you're like me and don't think that generative AI has to be our destiny as faculty, please do avail yourself of this amazing resource.

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · Aug 15

Now updated with more links (thanks to everyone who suggested new material!) and with the years that each article was published. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Against Generative AI – Cate Denial

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