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Genese Grill @genesegrill.bsky.social · Sep 1

I am co-leading a year-long Man Without Qualities Reading Group with @samantharhill.bsky.social , starting on Monday, October 13th. Join us! Details can be found here:
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Man Without Qualities Reading Group

Starting October 13th

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Jeremy Wang-Iverson @jwi.bsky.social · Jul 7

@samantharhill.bsky.social in New York Times

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · Jul 8

"The danger is not that A.I. will replace human connection. The danger is that it will make us forget what actual connection requires..."
@samantharhill.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

Opinion | Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop

www.nytimes.com

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Jul 10

She never said it.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Jul 8

"The danger is not that AI will replace human connection," @samantharhill.bsky.social writes. The danger is that it will make us forget what actual connection requires while eroding our ability to think for ourselves." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

Opinion | Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop

www.nytimes.com

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Jul 9

“Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem,”
@samantharhill.bsky.social on the tech loneliness doom hoop.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

Opinion | Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · May 31

My favorite definition of love

Rainer Maria Rilke:

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Ot @jensot.bsky.social · May 8

Look Sam, Heidelberg is online @samantharhill.bsky.social youtu.be/i04iCnOUAvc?...

Samantha Rose Hill & Paul Holdengräber: Was bleibt. Hannah Arendt als Dichterin

YouTube video by DAI Heidelberg

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · May 11

Hannah Arendt with her mother Martha Sara Cohn

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · May 1

Frank O'Hara

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Apr 30

"Boredom is the threshold to great deeds."

— Walter Benjamin

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Apr 29

I had the same thought.

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Apr 29

"We've grown very poor in threshold experiences."

— Walter Benjamin

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Apr 29

Arrived separately together
Looking forward to reading!

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Apr 28

I have been reading and teaching Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History for nearly twenty years and today I finally felt the revolutionary argument in the work. Against historicism, against orthodox historical materialism, toward revolutionary historical materialism—waiting.

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Apr 27

Read Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil with me!

Especially if you’re feeling a bit at sea, adrift between the no-longer and not-yet

A monument to a moment in time written through meditations on time as Broch imagined the final hours of Virgil’s life.

samantharosehill.substack.com/p/invitation-t

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Apr 22

"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule."

— Walter Benjamin

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Apr 21

Trump cancels humanities grants to subsidize building statues to humanities scholars, including, apparently, Hannah Arendt, who wrote an entire book about how fascists—like trump—come to power in part by trying to censor what people can read, write, and think about.

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Apr 18

Tuberculosis is coming back
People are afraid of vaccines
No more food safety regulations
They want to increase industrial factory production
All while engaging in imperial wars of expansion
People calling for revolution
Welcome to the 19th century!
Can't wait for the barricades.

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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · Apr 18

"The true goal of Fascism was only to seize power and establish the Fascist 'elite' as uncontested ruler over the country."

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Jamila @ampersandstar.bsky.social · Apr 13

Arendt and the Freedom to Change the World, a conversation with

Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social

& Samantha Rose Hill
@samantharhill.bsky.social

hosted by Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

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