Sam Stark
@thesamstark.bsky.social
Freelance editor (http://thatsam.com)
Historian of the 18th Brumaire (http://18brumaire.com)
Substack at Brumaireland (https://brumaireland.substack.com)
Historian of the 18th Brumaire (http://18brumaire.com)
Substack at Brumaireland (https://brumaireland.substack.com)
I put on my writer hat for the first time in years just to review @mkblyth.bsky.social on inflation for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Making Sense of Inflation
The economic force is often seen as a barometer for a nation's mood and health. But have we misunderstood it all along?
www.thenation.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I put on my writer hat for the first time in years just to review @mkblyth.bsky.social on inflation for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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The full set of academic hand gestures is archived here. #bouncingonimaginaryhandtrampolines
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October 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The full set of academic hand gestures is archived here. #bouncingonimaginaryhandtrampolines
Civilization will collapse and there will still be the Venmo feed of transactions by random old contacts with their settings on public
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Civilization will collapse and there will still be the Venmo feed of transactions by random old contacts with their settings on public
Latest addition to the collection of crime writing read by Walter Benjamin:
- Gaston Leroux, Perfume of the Lady in Black
- Gaston Leroux, Perfume of the Lady in Black
October 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Latest addition to the collection of crime writing read by Walter Benjamin:
- Gaston Leroux, Perfume of the Lady in Black
- Gaston Leroux, Perfume of the Lady in Black
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
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😲😥🫡
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time
After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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“The story of IHOP was all about internationalism, but not the generic kind. it was like IKEA—Scandinavian. It was the International House of Pancakes, and it was international because, you know, there were various syrups of the world there.”
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The Haunting of Cracker Barrel | A. S. Hamrah, Will Tavlin, Lisa Borst
Semiotically, it's detached from all these kinds of things that it was originally designed for. But this kind of sign was always part of the corporate blandification of the American travel experience....
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September 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“The story of IHOP was all about internationalism, but not the generic kind. it was like IKEA—Scandinavian. It was the International House of Pancakes, and it was international because, you know, there were various syrups of the world there.”
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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OK! OK! Nobody panic! Or better yet, EVERYBODY PANIC so at least we're all on the same page. Your Name Here has a publisher: @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social Your Name Here has a release date. (September 23) Your Name Here has a cover! Now all Your Name Here needs is your preorder!
Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff
A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's "War on Terror," countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.
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August 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
OK! OK! Nobody panic! Or better yet, EVERYBODY PANIC so at least we're all on the same page. Your Name Here has a publisher: @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social Your Name Here has a release date. (September 23) Your Name Here has a cover! Now all Your Name Here needs is your preorder!
Two more ordered for the Walter Benjamin commemorative crime writing collection:
- Alfred Döblin, Two Women and a Poisoning (Text Books, 2021)
- Hans Aufricht-Ruda, The Case for the Defendant (Little, Brown, 1929)
- Alfred Döblin, Two Women and a Poisoning (Text Books, 2021)
- Hans Aufricht-Ruda, The Case for the Defendant (Little, Brown, 1929)
My new hobby is to collect every detective novel read by Walter Benjamin - in English translation if there is one. Some are pretty obscure …
August 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Two more ordered for the Walter Benjamin commemorative crime writing collection:
- Alfred Döblin, Two Women and a Poisoning (Text Books, 2021)
- Hans Aufricht-Ruda, The Case for the Defendant (Little, Brown, 1929)
- Alfred Döblin, Two Women and a Poisoning (Text Books, 2021)
- Hans Aufricht-Ruda, The Case for the Defendant (Little, Brown, 1929)
My new hobby is to collect every detective novel read by Walter Benjamin - in English translation if there is one. Some are pretty obscure …
July 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My new hobby is to collect every detective novel read by Walter Benjamin - in English translation if there is one. Some are pretty obscure …
My book is alive! Just in time for the revolution, as I expected it would be when I began my research [gulp] ten years ago.
June 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My book is alive! Just in time for the revolution, as I expected it would be when I began my research [gulp] ten years ago.
Unpacking some old books and found my trashed copy of the Chicago Manual of Style (5th ed., 1917) that once belonged to Franz Boas.
May 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Unpacking some old books and found my trashed copy of the Chicago Manual of Style (5th ed., 1917) that once belonged to Franz Boas.
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this 1996 commercial for claritin sent me into flight or flight. an absolute psycho directed this
April 24, 2025 at 6:37 AM
this 1996 commercial for claritin sent me into flight or flight. an absolute psycho directed this
Renata Adler on Hannah Arendt in the new Granta - didn’t know there was any connection between the two! granta.com/this-very-co...
This Very Complicated Cast of Mind
‘I thought of her more as a sort of parental figure in the beginning. There was scolding.’ Renata Adler on her friendship with Hannah Arendt.
granta.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Renata Adler on Hannah Arendt in the new Granta - didn’t know there was any connection between the two! granta.com/this-very-co...
On the back of an old bookmark featuring Curious George, I found a vaguely useful explanation of the logic behind the Dewey Decimal system - had no idea that it was so … Hegelian?
April 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
On the back of an old bookmark featuring Curious George, I found a vaguely useful explanation of the logic behind the Dewey Decimal system - had no idea that it was so … Hegelian?
One of the more amazing AI hallucinations I have seen
April 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
One of the more amazing AI hallucinations I have seen
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Pure genius! By @ellecordova.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Pure genius! By @ellecordova.bsky.social
Proofs! And a nominal pub date in June? Sneak peeks at the ToC for those who just can't wait.
April 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Proofs! And a nominal pub date in June? Sneak peeks at the ToC for those who just can't wait.
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“It must be hard to be March, one of those adolescent months people patiently wait for the year to outgrow.” (line from James Schuyler's diary, March 10, 1971)
March 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“It must be hard to be March, one of those adolescent months people patiently wait for the year to outgrow.” (line from James Schuyler's diary, March 10, 1971)
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The Spontaneity of Freedom research project at UCL's Philosophy Department will be hosing a workshop in London this 4 & 5 July. A call for abstracts is available here: spontaneousfreedom.net/opportunities/. Deadline 1 April.
Opportunities
Call for Abstracts The Spontaneity of Freedom: Summer Workshop We invite submissions of abstracts for the First Summer Workshop of the Spontaneity of Freedom Project. The workshop will take place o…
spontaneousfreedom.net
March 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Spontaneity of Freedom research project at UCL's Philosophy Department will be hosing a workshop in London this 4 & 5 July. A call for abstracts is available here: spontaneousfreedom.net/opportunities/. Deadline 1 April.
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#economics #centralbanks
A new #book “Our Money” – Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters by Leah Downey @stjohnscam Febr 2025 @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
A new #book “Our Money” – Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters by Leah Downey @stjohnscam Febr 2025 @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
February 17, 2025 at 6:29 AM
#economics #centralbanks
A new #book “Our Money” – Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters by Leah Downey @stjohnscam Febr 2025 @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
A new #book “Our Money” – Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters by Leah Downey @stjohnscam Febr 2025 @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
I started a Substack that is only kind of promoting a book. Please check it out if you're interested in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte! brumaireland.substack.com?r=49u0ze&utm...
Brumaireland | Sam Stark | Substack
A newsletter about a book and its world. Click to read Brumaireland, by Sam Stark, a Substack publication. Launched 12 minutes ago.
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February 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I started a Substack that is only kind of promoting a book. Please check it out if you're interested in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte! brumaireland.substack.com?r=49u0ze&utm...
As of five minutes ago, I'm the proud owner of 18brumaire.com. For now it just links to my forthcoming dissertation book, but I'm open to suggestions. (I might start a blog. Or a memecoin ...)
The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852-1933: Meanings and Uses in Context
The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852-1933 is the first extended political history of Karl Marx’s seminal text.
Written largely in an engaging narrative form that cen...
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February 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
As of five minutes ago, I'm the proud owner of 18brumaire.com. For now it just links to my forthcoming dissertation book, but I'm open to suggestions. (I might start a blog. Or a memecoin ...)
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Andy Rabinbach was an extraordinary scholar, teacher, and mentor.
And a wonderful Mensch.
As Jürgen Kaube puts it in this well-informed and sensitive obituary:
"Jede Zeile von ihm war informativ."
And a wonderful Mensch.
As Jürgen Kaube puts it in this well-informed and sensitive obituary:
"Jede Zeile von ihm war informativ."
Zum Tod des Historikers Anson Rabinbach
Sein Horizont unterlag keiner nationalen Begrenzung: Zum Tod des Historikers Anson Rabinbach, der die kulturellen und politischen Umstände erforschte, unter denen der Nationalsozialismus aufstieg.
www.faz.net
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Andy Rabinbach was an extraordinary scholar, teacher, and mentor.
And a wonderful Mensch.
As Jürgen Kaube puts it in this well-informed and sensitive obituary:
"Jede Zeile von ihm war informativ."
And a wonderful Mensch.
As Jürgen Kaube puts it in this well-informed and sensitive obituary:
"Jede Zeile von ihm war informativ."
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ARM (Always Read Meaney) newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Thomas Meaney, A Year in German Culture — Sidecar
Gaza and censorship.
newleftreview.org
December 31, 2024 at 10:11 PM
ARM (Always Read Meaney) newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...