Theo Honohan
@theohonohan.bsky.social
"The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes."
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Theo Honohan
@theohonohan.bsky.social
· Jan 7
I worry so much about not being on the ball, being provincial or bourgeois, as if not being those things was my most important political responsibility.
These books were printed in duotone, which is a long-established high-quality process for reproducing photographs.
The 2007 Jonathan Olley one was printed in Verona by (I believe) ebs-bortolazzi.com.
The 1962 Paul Strand book was printed by Druckhaus Einheit, Leipzig, East Germany(!).
The 2007 Jonathan Olley one was printed in Verona by (I believe) ebs-bortolazzi.com.
The 1962 Paul Strand book was printed by Druckhaus Einheit, Leipzig, East Germany(!).
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
These books were printed in duotone, which is a long-established high-quality process for reproducing photographs.
The 2007 Jonathan Olley one was printed in Verona by (I believe) ebs-bortolazzi.com.
The 1962 Paul Strand book was printed by Druckhaus Einheit, Leipzig, East Germany(!).
The 2007 Jonathan Olley one was printed in Verona by (I believe) ebs-bortolazzi.com.
The 1962 Paul Strand book was printed by Druckhaus Einheit, Leipzig, East Germany(!).
William Alexander,
Planetarium, the Principal Present Given to the Emperor of China, 1793
Watercolour, British Library, WD 961 f.42.
Planetarium, the Principal Present Given to the Emperor of China, 1793
Watercolour, British Library, WD 961 f.42.
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
William Alexander,
Planetarium, the Principal Present Given to the Emperor of China, 1793
Watercolour, British Library, WD 961 f.42.
Planetarium, the Principal Present Given to the Emperor of China, 1793
Watercolour, British Library, WD 961 f.42.
"Yourcenar was unabashedly learned and indefatigably patrician – a writer who once accused her publishers of ‘insolent carelessness’ for failing to maintain a list that was sufficiently literary to accommodate her books." lol this can't be how the conversation went down
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Yourcenar was unabashedly learned and indefatigably patrician – a writer who once accused her publishers of ‘insolent carelessness’ for failing to maintain a list that was sufficiently literary to accommodate her books." lol this can't be how the conversation went down
Reposted by Theo Honohan
‘The collection goes some way to demonstrating the breadth of Yourcenar’s mind; and some way, too, to demonstrating her particular gift for summoning the past out of itself’ – Tim Smith-Laing reviews a new edition of essays on Piranesi, Dürer, Michelangelo et al. by Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar's lyrical excavations
Best known for her 1951 novel ‘Memoirs of Hadrian’, the writer also applied her gift for summoning the past to essays on Dürer, Michelangelo, Piranesi et al., writes Tim Smith-Laing
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
‘The collection goes some way to demonstrating the breadth of Yourcenar’s mind; and some way, too, to demonstrating her particular gift for summoning the past out of itself’ – Tim Smith-Laing reviews a new edition of essays on Piranesi, Dürer, Michelangelo et al. by Marguerite Yourcenar
I see a blog post with this subheading:
"(Partial, incorrect) Implementation in Haskell"
Disappointed that they didn't go for the hat-trick by making up syntax for nonexistent compiler features as well, as Conor McBride has been known to do.
"(Partial, incorrect) Implementation in Haskell"
Disappointed that they didn't go for the hat-trick by making up syntax for nonexistent compiler features as well, as Conor McBride has been known to do.
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I see a blog post with this subheading:
"(Partial, incorrect) Implementation in Haskell"
Disappointed that they didn't go for the hat-trick by making up syntax for nonexistent compiler features as well, as Conor McBride has been known to do.
"(Partial, incorrect) Implementation in Haskell"
Disappointed that they didn't go for the hat-trick by making up syntax for nonexistent compiler features as well, as Conor McBride has been known to do.
The essence of the civilised ideal conservative average male: likes things the way they are because they can't imagine them being different.
"[John] Evelyn was inquisitive and observant, but had little powers of clear and precise thought and of synthesis."
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
"[John] Evelyn was inquisitive and observant, but had little powers of clear and precise thought and of synthesis."
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The essence of the civilised ideal conservative average male: likes things the way they are because they can't imagine them being different.
"[John] Evelyn was inquisitive and observant, but had little powers of clear and precise thought and of synthesis."
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
"[John] Evelyn was inquisitive and observant, but had little powers of clear and precise thought and of synthesis."
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
The sculpture has finally been acknowledged by the council! www.dublincityartsoffice.ie/programmes-p...
I hope my previous posts aren't too severe.
I hope my previous posts aren't too severe.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The sculpture has finally been acknowledged by the council! www.dublincityartsoffice.ie/programmes-p...
I hope my previous posts aren't too severe.
I hope my previous posts aren't too severe.
A document ID that's got padding characters in it: past time to retire these, surely, if only in favour of a delimiter like the hyphen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode
November 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A document ID that's got padding characters in it: past time to retire these, surely, if only in favour of a delimiter like the hyphen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode
This is an interesting section through St Paul's. I don't know where it was published.
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is an interesting section through St Paul's. I don't know where it was published.
Reposted by Theo Honohan
"Nothing can possibly go wrong now," cried the Humbug happily and as soon as he'd said it he leaped from the car, as if stuck by a pin, and sailed all the way to the little island.
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Nothing can possibly go wrong now," cried the Humbug happily and as soon as he'd said it he leaped from the car, as if stuck by a pin, and sailed all the way to the little island.
I'm doing research into the experience of planetariums. It has led me to this page from a romance novel which seems funny – not a difficult read, shall we say
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I'm doing research into the experience of planetariums. It has led me to this page from a romance novel which seems funny – not a difficult read, shall we say
Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin
tieranatomisches-theater.de/en/the-build...
tieranatomisches-theater.de/en/the-build...
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin
tieranatomisches-theater.de/en/the-build...
tieranatomisches-theater.de/en/the-build...
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Milo stood on tiptoe, leaned over into the cannon's mouth, and parted his lips. The small sound dropped silently to the bottom and everything was ready. In another moment the fuse was lit and sputtering.
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Milo stood on tiptoe, leaned over into the cannon's mouth, and parted his lips. The small sound dropped silently to the bottom and everything was ready. In another moment the fuse was lit and sputtering.
“It is possible to imagine a world that in a gradual yet also sudden way is moving away from all of its acquired conditions of truth, sense, and value.” (Jean-Luc Nancy)
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“It is possible to imagine a world that in a gradual yet also sudden way is moving away from all of its acquired conditions of truth, sense, and value.” (Jean-Luc Nancy)
"I’m just extremely busy. I have multiple multiple projects going."
This quote made me think of the list monad
This quote made me think of the list monad
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"I’m just extremely busy. I have multiple multiple projects going."
This quote made me think of the list monad
This quote made me think of the list monad
"You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you." (Thomas Bernhard) 🥰
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you." (Thomas Bernhard) 🥰
When the tab bar fills up and I have to open another Chrome window instead, I always tell myself "it's nothing, each browser window is a flyweight". I wish I knew whether this was true (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyweig...)
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
When the tab bar fills up and I have to open another Chrome window instead, I always tell myself "it's nothing, each browser window is a flyweight". I wish I knew whether this was true (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyweig...)
Timeline cleanse
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Timeline cleanse
There's something to the idea of AI (or mechanistic processes in general) getting into a rut.
"The Gestalt psychologists of Germany during the early twentieth century distinguished between reproductive and productive thinking (Wertheimer, 1959)."
Does that choice of words betray sexism, though?
"The Gestalt psychologists of Germany during the early twentieth century distinguished between reproductive and productive thinking (Wertheimer, 1959)."
Does that choice of words betray sexism, though?
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There's something to the idea of AI (or mechanistic processes in general) getting into a rut.
"The Gestalt psychologists of Germany during the early twentieth century distinguished between reproductive and productive thinking (Wertheimer, 1959)."
Does that choice of words betray sexism, though?
"The Gestalt psychologists of Germany during the early twentieth century distinguished between reproductive and productive thinking (Wertheimer, 1959)."
Does that choice of words betray sexism, though?
"the planetarium dome must be perceived by every person in the audience as pristine, luminous, and remote" unframed.lacma.org/2014/02/13/u...
Under the Dome
Although I slipped into James Turrell’s Light Reignfall Perceptual Cell at LACMA five months ago, its obvious connection to Griffith Observatory’s Samuel Oschin Planetarium did not cross my mind until...
unframed.lacma.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"the planetarium dome must be perceived by every person in the audience as pristine, luminous, and remote" unframed.lacma.org/2014/02/13/u...
You can see a dumbbell-style planetarium projector gyrating in this newsreel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0o9...
Planetarium (1932)
YouTube video by British Pathé
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
You can see a dumbbell-style planetarium projector gyrating in this newsreel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0o9...
The priorities of planetarium designers were such that the first projector could simulate the precession of the equinoxes, but only the view from the latitude of Munich.
Planetary motions were handled by a stack of projectors on the ecliptic axis, and the "star ball" was mounted on that axis too.
Planetary motions were handled by a stack of projectors on the ecliptic axis, and the "star ball" was mounted on that axis too.
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The priorities of planetarium designers were such that the first projector could simulate the precession of the equinoxes, but only the view from the latitude of Munich.
Planetary motions were handled by a stack of projectors on the ecliptic axis, and the "star ball" was mounted on that axis too.
Planetary motions were handled by a stack of projectors on the ecliptic axis, and the "star ball" was mounted on that axis too.