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@textsavvy.org

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · Sep 2

What I should have said here is that this is a clue (bsky.app/profile/text...). Consciousness is a mystery in part because it lies in between behaviorism and individualistic psychologism. It was BUILT for and functions through communicative sociality.

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Josh Fisher, A Function-First Account of Human Social and Individual Consciousness as Cultural Evolution Engine - PhilPapers

This article advances a function-first account of social and individual consciousness as the engine of cumulative cultural evolution. At the social level, joint attention (a We-mode) objectifies share...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 5h

Has a hint of Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? to it.

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Incredibly good.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 6h

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The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

Paintings illustrating Pliny the Elder’s account of the origins of art.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 7h

Thoughtful piece. To the extent that I have thought along similar lines, I have always wanted curriculum makers to have an unconditional regard for the poor.
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Facing Up To Curriculum Trade-Offs

What will be lost and gained in the new curriculum? Here, I argue that the government's curriculum review must face up to difficult choices.

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 14h

"Rhetoric and Resistance" (published by @ohiounivpress.bsky.social) is now on the path to #OpenAccess! This title is one of the many in our Path to Open program, which expands access to scholarship from trusted presses.

Read the blog post to see the latest additions: https://bit.ly/42Zuybu

Cover text reads “Rhetoric and Resistance: The Literary Arts of Dissent in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” The pale blue cover is framed by intricate white floral/vine patterns that incorporate small placards and megaphones; a white raised fist sits near the bottom above the author’s name, Maeve Adams, in a rounded banner. The image appears on a dark blue to deep red gradient backdrop.

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Lynne Kelly @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social · 18h

Hunter-gatherers choose to stay mobile - great article!.

Note: mobile not nomadic. They move through known locations, not merely wandering as 'nomadic' implies.

"The Mbendjele BaYaka have stressed the importance of mobility for the transmission of knowledge." Love it!

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The hunter-gatherers of the 21st century who live on the move | Aeon Essays

Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

Or read this: www.huffpost.com/entry/gustav.... Much better than whatever that "lesson" was supposed to be.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

"Titles of honor and dignity once acquired in a democracy, even by accident and properly usable for only forty-eight hours, are as permanent here as eternity is in heaven . . . We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege." --Twain

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 2d

October is #NationalBookMonth, the perfect time to discover what scholars are reading on JSTOR. 📚

A recent blog post highlights top-read frontlist ebooks and editor picks across disciplines.

See our picks: https://bit.ly/3WftTij

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

Brantôme is writing about a self-interested and prestige-oriented era. So, his lack of specificity is a mercy to the reader. Otherwise, a full 40% of every page looks like this--"René de Villequier baron de Clervaux d'Aubigny et d'Ivry-le-Château"--just to say people's names.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

From Brantôme's Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (Vol. 1!). The murderer, revealed by Footnote 8, was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%.... The link tells us that the murdered was pregnant. The King praised the crime as the murder of a "fame whore." There are 9000 pages of this.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

I advise standing back and admiring the hole you've dug so far. It ain't going anywhere. : )

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d

Shyness is not the same thing as diffidence.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 4d

Read the letters of the writer and musician Ignatius Sancho (c.1729–1780), the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election, and the first person of African descent known to be given an obituary in the British press: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... #BlackHistoryMonth

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d

I think this also speaks wisely to the widespread feeling of discomfort with 'timing' things in learning. Good ideas always seem to hit this duality of knowledge and feeling, as a unit.

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Beautifully brilliant!

Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 4d

Latest on our Substack - I attempt to prove mathematically that education can never be fun, with reference to The Flowerpot Men, Jock Stein & the Galapagos tortoise.

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Why education can never be fun

Proven with maths

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 5d

Knowledge is potato.

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History’s Greatest Potato Promoter Relied on Science and Stunts

Before Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, the French considered the tuber disgusting and poisonous.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, this is really good.

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 5d

"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through."

"Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

Door in the Woods by Chris Scott

Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…

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janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 5d

Deborah Barsky and I interview Eudald Carbonell about his framework, the hominization and humanization process.

Utimately, we need larger concepts through which we understand the archaeo record, that also necessarily capture the humanistic motive to learn about them. Carbonell’s offering is potent.

A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 5d

I think E.D. Hirsch Jr. posting on LinkedIn should be in the news.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 6d

It's a little funny that 'humans are fundamentally social beings' is on everyone's lips, but our more visible human sciences operationalize us as individuals, fundamentally.

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 6d

Quiggers is on point in this ‘polished diamond’ of a blog

Alex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 6d

💡 'Write less; Read more'

"Are pupils being read to enough in the school week? How much reading are they exposed to, and how do we know? Are we wading through too many comprehension questions that imitate national tests, but inhibit reading volume in English?"

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 6d

#October has arrived! 🎃

@jstordaily.bsky.social has compiled the best stories on the #Halloween season to get you in the spirit. You'll find holiday lore, notes on ghosts, witches, and vampires, along with other spooky topics of interest.

View the roundup: https://bit.ly/42WLkbd

Postcard illustration of a witch in a striped hat flying a broom with a black cat past a crescent moon above a small town; title “Ye Salem Witch” appears, with a handwritten note along the bottom.

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