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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Jun 5

It's "Glühende Lava, zur Erinnerung geronnen". An essay published in 1995.

Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Jun 5

Amazing essay by Koselleck (transl. @adamtooze.bsky.social) on war experience as a "glowing mass of lava hardened" into the body and on how the end of war is never the end of it. Incredible writing

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · May 21

In 1842, an optimistic George H. Lewes imagined a future (two millennia ahead) where a New Zealand historian would document the decline and fall of the British Empire ("should that empire be fated to decline and fall").

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · May 21

As Borges anticipated, the world will be Tlön

Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · May 21

Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us.
#histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist

Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’

www.theguardian.com

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · May 6

Cicero on personified laws handing over swords for self-defense (via Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres)

Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · May 4

Kantorowicz in 1932 wondering how long universities would continue to exist

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · May 1

Kantorowicz responds to the critics accusing him of "methodologically flawed" history: it's like "those Austrian generals" defeated by Napoleon in Italy. They too argued that the enemy won, but "through methodologically incorrect means".

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Jan 31

Excellent!

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Jan 31

Very interesting! Side question: What was the question about Peronism? What was the expected framing?

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Jan 22

Our interview with Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) about his new book, Anticlerical Legacies, is now out on the European Hobbes Society website. A fascinating read for early modernists!👇

europeanhobbessociety.squarespace.com/articles/int...

Interview with Elad Carmel on Anticlerical legacies: The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes — European Hobbes Society

Elad Carmel (University of Jyväskylä) has recently published Anticlerical legacies. The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670-1740 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024),...

europeanhobbessociety.squarespace.com

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Dec 1

Almost simultaneously, against the backdrop of WW2, Marc Bloch (The Historian's Craft) and Carl Schmitt (Land and Sea) both reflected on history being prompted by their children. I don't know what that means, but it must mean something.

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Nov 27

Starting tomorrow!
Hobbes in Dialogue(s) - The fifth conference of the European Hobbes Society.

More details on the program:
hobbesparis.hypotheses.org/files/2024/1...

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Nov 27

True!

Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Nov 27

Graphic design in the Renaissance:
1. Arion riding a dolphin and playing a lyre, trademark of the publisher Johannes Oporinus.
2. Paris edition of the works of St. Hilary of Poitiers featuring the city emblem.

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Nov 22

L'abbé Raynal roasting Sorbière (Hobbes's pen-friend): "Hobbes wrote to Sorbière about matters of philosophy. Sorbière sent his letters to Gassendi, and what Gassendi replied served as Sorbière's responses to Hobbes’ letters, who believed Sorbière to be a great philosopher."

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thought it was a coronavirus reference at first

weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · Nov 21

this was the first weird medieval guy to ever go viral 🥰🥰

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Nov 19

The scanned copy of the volume "Hobbes et son vocabulaire" available for download out there belongs/belonged to Quentin Skinner?! Check out the signature at the beginning.

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Nov 17

Marat's two deaths at the Carnavalet Museum

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Jan 4

Really interesting piece by Macarena Marey on the geopolitics of academia. I can relate to much of what is discussed, particularly regarding the perception of never being heard.

It also reminded me of this article on the "silence" of Latam researchers:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My experience with geopolitics of knowledge in political philosophy so far

Geopolitics of knowledge is a fact. Only few (conservative) colleagues would contend otherwise. Ingrid Robeyns wrote an entry for this blog dealing with this problem. There, Ingrid dealt mostly wit…

crookedtimber.org

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Dec 21

Re new immigration law in France, relocation costs are becoming a service industry in itself (influx of money from poorer economies to richer ones). Profitable effects of asylum seeking have been highlighted in a recent Tooze/Abadi podcast.

foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/one...

How Asylum-Seekers Shake Up Economies (Mostly in Good Ways)

Ones and Tooze: Adam and Cameron look at the economics of migration.

foreignpolicy.com

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Dec 4

Demain/Tomorrow Hobbes (+Pufendorf)@Paris! More info: hobbesparis.hypotheses.org

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Nov 30

Exceptional 1878 caricature in Kladderadatsch: Otto von Bismarck stuffing emergency laws into the mouth of a goose embodying the Parliament. “Eat or die, bird,” says the Chancellor. What's the origin of this goose-Parliament identification? Check it out here👇:

stateperson.hypotheses.org/559

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Nov 26

I see Leviathan all over the place: The Adoration of the Lamb (1498) by Dürer, part of his Apocalypse series, spotted at the BNF.

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