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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 15h

"The Khalidi Library represents everything the settlers cannot abide. It is a monument to, and repository of, the history and heritage of a culture they claim should not exist"

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The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library

While the golden Dome of the Rock sweltered under one-hundred-degree heat a gang of heavily armed orthodox Israelis marched on a Palestinian library. Brandishing forged documents falsely claiming t…

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 15h

"There are many critiques of how capitalism treats the natural world, but I find most of them unsatisfying"

www.jhiblog.org/2025/08/27/t...

The Production of Nature: An Interview with Alyssa Battistoni

by Jochen Schmon

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 21h

Academia and particularly the humanities is facing a global crisis. We need to be supporting each other. What we do not need to be doing is tarring kind, brilliant people with political views and personality traits they don’t have just because you disagree with the results of their research.

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 22h

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 23h

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century): Carolingian capitularies / King Pippin of Italy

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

#medievalsky

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 23h

“Tracking the politics of the face leads us into contact with many of the key dimensions of 21st-century politics and power: technologies of surveillance, questions of community membership, the limits of technocracy, the crisis of literacy, incipient fascism”

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Facial Recognitions - The Ideas Letter

Davies traces the political history of the human face, showing how it has become both a weapon and a site of contestation—from far-right mobilizations fueled by viral images to the…

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century): Lombard / Latin legal vocaboulary 💙

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

#medievalsky

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

“We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests”

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We need a planetary system of diplomacy for the 21st century | Aeon Essays

We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century): Carolingian capitularies / Lothar

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

#medievalsky

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

"But thinking about how the left exercises morality, and how its moral judgments rely on certain understandings of knowledge, may give a perspective on its state and why it seems incapable of meeting the challenge it currently faces"

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Morality Plays - The Ideas Letter

The Western left is in crisis, unable to confront the far right because it has abandoned the historic synthesis of morality, knowledge, and emancipation that once grounded its politics. In…

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century)

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

#medievalsky

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century)

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

#medievalsky

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

"I find it ironic that books have taken on this status as the most intellectual of all pursuits, given that when they first arrived, books were ridiculed and criticized as trash"

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So what's so great about reading books?

If you pay attention to the news at all, you may have seen a host of alarming headlines recently about how the number of Americans who say they read for pleasure has declined sharply over the past 20 ...

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

"Ironically, however, that very literature was once profoundly controversial. What we now call classic literature was the brainrot of its day — or at least many thought so"

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The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot

A semi-optimistic take on the future of reading and thinking

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century)

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

"Those metrics can be useful. But when it comes to understanding actual human communities, we still need economists who can find and defend happiness outside the market"

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Beyond the Market

Rogan’s book is a welcome step toward uncovering and building up a tradition of alternative economics, one in which economics is not a value-free discipline, but, rather, is shaped by social cus...

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century)

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 1d

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century): King Rothari

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 2d

"Polanyi says you need a prior act of affiliation to kick-start the kind of apprenticeship through which culture comes to be transmitted. But such acts of affiliation, or “granting of one’s personal allegiance” to an authoritative figure, no longer seem routine"

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The Good Apprentice

Real independence of mind can be won only by a sustained process of submission to authority.

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 2d

"The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the left able to love it?"

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/tolk...

Tolkien Against the Grain - Dissent Magazine

The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the left able to love it?

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 2d

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century): King Rothari

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 2d

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century): Origo gentis Langobardorum

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 2d

Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century): Arechis of Benevento

Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 4d

amo:

www.onverticality.com

On Verticality

Explorations into the human need to escape the surface of the earth. A mashup of architecture, aeronautics, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, anatomy and human pre-history

www.onverticality.com

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.bsky.social · 5d

"From exile, Assata Shakur became one of the most influential yet controversial figures in the Black liberation movement. For many, she was the embodiment of radical resistance to racism, police brutality, and state oppression"

www.blackhistoryunveiled.com/p/assata-sha...

Assata Shakur (1947-2025)

Freedom in Exile

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