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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made them? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives?
Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seven­teenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers—and new justifications for doing so. Ideas of control perfected on the factory floor have expanded to dictate our personal lives, polit­ical rights, national policy, and the global economy.

Seventeenth-century intellectuals such as William Petty and John Locke argued that human beings were selfish machines who had to be controlled for their own good. A century later, Jeremy and Samuel Bentham tried to do exactly that with their infamous Panopticon prison. When nineteenth-century Japa­nese elites imported European factory technologies, they came up with new theories of political control to justify this development. After the Second World War, the General Electric Corporation created an in­ternal propaganda department to fight unions, then pitched that propaganda to the country with the help of an actor, the future President Ronald Reagan. Ex­tending these practices, billionaires today dream of extending the algorithmic control of Amazon ware­houses into every corner of our lives.

Blending intellectual, economic, and labor history, Control Science is a thrilling and lucid work of his­tory. Henry Snow reveals how common sense about work, the economy, and human nature was fabricated and must now be challenged.
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was reading J.H. Elliott’s NYRB review essay (cached) on several new histories of the conquest of Mexico when I was struck by this minatory footnote:

Both authors have difficulties not only with “empire” but also with “Aztec,” which is a highly questionable term. The inhabitants of Tenochtitlan and surrounding regions that recognized their dominance were technically Mexica, but as far as is known the Mexica, along with other peoples of central Mexico, never identified themselves as “Aztecs.” Irrespective of their geographical location and political status, each ethnic or social group referred to itself when dealing with outsiders and others as “we people here.” To avoid inconvenience and make the nature of their topic clear to nonspecialists, [Frances] Berdan and [Camilla] Townsend tend to fall back, with obvious misgiving, on “Aztec.”

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pastiche is therefore a kind of permutation, a shuffling of generic and grammatical tics. The mere presence of pastiche in postmodernist writing is not in itself unique. The infancy of the novel form itself was marked by a succession of parodies, from Samuel Richardson to Laurence Sterne. Yet as John Barth points out in his essay The Literature of Exhaustion (1967) and its sequel The Literature of Replenishment (1980), there is certainly something peculiar and distinctive about the contemporary mania for impersonation.

Barth‘s earlier essay epitomizes a mood in the late 1960s, when critics such as Susan Sontag were busy greatly exaggerating rumours about the death of the novel. The traditional devices of fiction seemed clapped out, unable to capture the complexities of the electronic age. At first it was thought that Barth, by stressing the exhaustion of both realism and modernism, had not only joined the novel’s funeral procession, but was volunteering to be chief pall-bearer. However, the critics overlooked his claim (reasserted in the later essay) that the corpse could be revivified by stitching together the amputated limbs and digits in new permutations: by pastiche, in other words. Pastiche, then, arises from the frustration that everything has been done before. As Fredric Jameson notes in Postmodernism and Consumer Society (1983), ‘the writers and artists of the present day will no longer be able to invent new styles and worlds … only a limited number of combinations are possible; the most unique ones have been thought of already’. So instead of honing an unmistakable signature like D. H. Lawrence or Gertrude Stein, postmodernist writers tend to pluck existing styles higgledy-piggledy from the reservoir of literary history, and match them with little tact.

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    <title>On colonial mindsets and the myth of medieval Europe in isolation from the Muslim world – Going Medieval</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pro-imperialist historiography is the air that we breath here in the decaying carcasses of the modern Imperium. I am extremely sympathetic to the urge to celebrate non-white cultures, and I spend quite a lot of time doing so myself. However, to argue that this was happening without any contact with Europe, and that Europeans cannot think or enjoy luxuries without also being involved in a violent imperial enterprise is extremely dangerous. I know that the people who make this argument think they are being enlightened, but they are still making a pro-imperial argument when they trot out tired myths about the medieval period. We don’t undo the colonial historiography by agreeing with it. We need to write our own history which admits that every world culture has something useful and beautiful to offer us all, and that a better world can be achieved without the subjugation of others.

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<item rdf:about="https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/spartans-war-myth-vs-reality/">
    <title>The Spartans at war - Myth vs reality - Ancient World Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-12T12:54:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/spartans-war-myth-vs-reality/</link>
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    <dc:date>2021-09-05T11:28:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2021/05/five-easy-pieces-for-social-sciences.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1. What is involved in "explaining" a social event or circumstance?

We explain a social event when we show how it arose as a result of the actions and interactions of multiple social actors, engaged within a specified social, economic, political, and natural environment, to accomplish their varied and heterogeneous purposes. Sometimes the thrust of the explanation derives from discovering the surprising motives the actors had; sometimes it derives from uncovering the logic of unintended consequences that developed through their interactions; and sometimes it derives from uncovering the features of the institutional and natural environment that shaped the choices the actors made.
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<item rdf:about="https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2021/03/wickham-on-feudalism.html">
    <title>Understanding Society: Wickham on &quot;feudalism&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-05T10:29:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2021/03/wickham-on-feudalism.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rather than looking for a single all-embracing concept of the "social and political system of the medieval period", Markham insists on recognizing the diversity of arrangements found throughout the period, and the parallel importance of detailed historical investigation of various sub-regions. Franks, Magyars, Bulgars, Visigoths, Vandals, Lombards, Danes, Khazars, Anglo-Saxons, and Andalusian Muslims -- the populations of various regions of Europe possessed their own histories and social arrangements, with influences flowing in all directions over time. Attempting to capture the social system of much of this map in terms of an abstract concept of "feudalism" is an error of historiography. There are commonalities across the regions and populations of the face of Europe, created by the fundamental existential circumstances of life in an environment with limited technology, communication, and travel. But the problems of material life, and the political and coercive arrangements through which groups of people were coordinated and controlled, varied across time and space. This critique can be put in terms of Weber's idea of ideal types as well (link): the concept of feudalism is an ideal type, that accentuates some features of the social order and minimizes others, in order to capture a broad social reality in a compact description. But for Wickham the historian, this attempt is wrong-headed. We do not gain anything of intellectual value by asserting that rural England, Saxony, and the territory of the Khazars were all "feudal" in their fundamental social relations. 
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d929c214783d/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Understanding Society: Frankish kings and Mynyddog's gold ...</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-21T11:47:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2021/02/frankish-kings-and-mynyddogs-gold.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is medieval history cumulative? Do contemporary historians build on the tracks laid down by the historians of the period who came before? That is a complicated question, and one can justify "no" as well as "yes". It is of course true that earlier historians of the early medieval period have discovered and presented much that is accurate and interesting about the period. But it is also true that history changes over time: historians come to see the blindspots of their predecessors, they come to conceptualize the past differently, and they come to understand that some aspects of the story have not been investigated at all. Wickham's history does some of all of that: reconceptualization, highlighting of new questions, and discovery of ways in which distinguished historians in the past century or so have both discovered their own important insights into the material, and made substantial errors of interpretation or reconstruction.

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<item rdf:about="http://ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/board-games-of-the-first-world-war/">
    <title>Board Games of the First World War</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-21T18:44:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/board-games-of-the-first-world-war/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Could you play a board game about the First World War, during the First World War?

In this episode Jessica, Chris and Angus talk to Holly Nielsen (PhD student at Royal Holloway, London) about board games during the First World War. As a result we learn about games converted into wartime themes, the benefits of the war to the British toy industry, the dangers of channelling the dead in a superstitious household, and what’s leapt to the top of Jessica’s ‘wish list’.

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<dc:subject>podcast history boardgames rather-interesting to-listen nanohistory</dc:subject>
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    <title>Lord of Misrule: Thomas Morton’s American Subversions – The Public Domain Review</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-14T11:08:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/lord-of-misrule-thomas-mortons-american-subversions</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If this risks reducing Morton to an allegorical figure, it is still certainly true that The New English Canaan’s conception of the land itself was steadfastly opposed to the Puritan “errand into the wilderness” which saw America as a howling wasteland — a frightening, demon-haunted void. If Puritans like Bradford and Winthrop saw their American mission as an exile (albeit one that involved the establishment of a New Israel), Morton harbored no such apprehensions about the natural world. To him, “the land... seemed paradise”,16 a sentiment common among Spanish colonists in South America and English colonists in Virginia, but anathema to his fellow New Englanders. Morton’s affection for America was uncomplicated: “The more I looked, the more I liked it.”17 Decades later, the memories still endured for Morton; he described the Massachusetts countryside in The New English Canaan by recourse to its “goodly groves of trees, dainty fine round rising hillocks, delicate fair large plains, sweet crystal fountains, and clear running streams.” The new continent, he adds with a flourish, “was Nature’s masterpiece, her chiefest magazine of all where lives her store. If this land be not rich, then is the whole world poor.”18
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<dc:subject>history colonialism nanohistory Americana rather-odd ia-ia-Lovecraft-sources parallel-histories</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/history/what-about-anne-little-ingram/">
    <title>What about Ann Little Ingram? « Lisa's History &amp; (Online) Teaching Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-03T00:25:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/history/what-about-anne-little-ingram/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What a possibly fascinating person. Leary has suggested that Isabel Bailey, who wrote a book on Herbert, might know something, having accessed their unpublished papers. If only I could find her.

But the point is, I shouldn’t have to. How can a woman who managed a paper which sold 250,000 copies for its special issues, not be more well-known? He certainly was — he became an MP, and there is a statue of him in the marketplace in old Boston. His life is chronicled. His picture is right here. –>

She bore him ten children, then ran his business, and her name isn’t even on his Wikipedia page. Was she photographed or engraved? Did she keep a diary? Was she written about in other people’s letters?

I sense yet another rabbit hole, dark with the story of another ignored woman.

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<dc:subject>history publishing the-long-tail-of-findability</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2020/10/issues-of-ethics-in-philosophy-of.html">
    <title>Understanding Society: Issues of ethics in philosophy of history</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-14T12:33:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2020/10/issues-of-ethics-in-philosophy-of.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Most writings in the philosophy of history have focused on issues of epistemology, method, and explanation. But our history as human beings is thoroughly invested with moral significance, and the philosophy of history needs to reflect on the moral issues raised by historical experience. Historians themselves have moral responsibilities; but perhaps more compellingly, all of us have responsibilities as participants in history to honestly confront our own pasts and the historical events that have influenced us, and acknowledge the often morally repugnant circumstances that this honesty will reveal.

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<item rdf:about="http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6708-pragmatism-applied.aspx">
    <title>Pragmatism Applied</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-29T00:24:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6708-pragmatism-applied.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[William James, one of America’s most original philosophers and psychologists, was concerned above all with the manner in which philosophy might help people to cope with the vicissitudes of daily life. Writing around the turn of the twentieth century, James experienced firsthand, much as we do now, the impact upon individuals and communities of rapid changes in extant values, technologies, economic realities, and ways of understanding the world. He presented an enormous range of practical recommendations for coping and thriving in such circumstances, arguing consistently that prospects for richer lives and improved communities rested not upon trust in spiritual or material prescriptions, but rather on clear thinking in the cause of action. This volume seeks to demonstrate how James’s astonishingly rich corpus can be used to address contemporary issues and to establish better ways for thinking about the moral and practical challenges of our time. In the first part, James’s theories are applied directly to issues ranging from gun control to disability, and the ethics of livestock farming to the meaning of “progress” in race relations. The second part shows how James’s theories of ethics, experience, and the self can be used to “clear away” theoretical matters that have inhibited philosophy’s deployment to real-world issues. Finally, part three shows how individuals might apply ideas from James in their personal lives, whether at work, contemplating nature, or considering the implications of their own habits of thought and action.
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<dc:subject>pragmatism history philosophy to-read not-in-library-tho</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6711-the-real-metaphysical-club.aspx">
    <title>The Real Metaphysical Club</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-29T00:23:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6711-the-real-metaphysical-club.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Metaphysical Club, a gathering of intellectuals in the 1870s, is widely recognized as the crucible where pragmatism, America’s distinctively original philosophy, was refined and proclaimed. Louis Menand’s bestseller about the group was a dramatic publishing success. However, only three actual members—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles S. Peirce, and William James—appear in the book, alongside other thinkers who were never in the Club. The Real Metaphysical Club tells the full story of how this influential group shifted the course of philosophy in America. In addition to pioneering pragmatism, the group explored radical empiricism and idealism, and formulated personalism and process philosophy, equally important developments. This volume contains the important writings dating from 1870 to 1885 by the real members of the Metaphysical Club. The first section centers on pragmatism and science; the second part collects writings of the lawyers; and the third part covers idealist and personalist philosophers. Many of these writings have never been reprinted before, and nothing like this impressive collection has ever been attempted. A general introduction provides a narrative history, and the editors’ three introductions to the volume’s sections vividly bring to life the intense meetings, sustained debates, and pioneering thought of the Metaphysical Club.
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<dc:subject>philosophy history transcendentalism to-read not-in-library-tho</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://evonomics.com/how-to-disguise-racism-and-oligarchy-use-the-language-of-economics/">
    <title>How to Disguise Racism and Oligarchy: Use Economics - Evonomics</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-20T11:53:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://evonomics.com/how-to-disguise-racism-and-oligarchy-use-the-language-of-economics/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With Koch’s money and enthusiasm, Buchanan’s academic school evolved into something much bigger. By the 1990s, Koch realized that Buchanan’s ideas — transmitted through stealth and deliberate deception, as MacLean amply documents — could help take government down through incremental assaults that the media would hardly notice. The tycoon knew that the project was extremely radical, even a “revolution” in governance, but he talked like a conservative to make his plans sound more palatable.

MacLean details how partnered with Koch, Buchanan’s outpost at George Mason University was able to connect libertarian economists with right-wing political actors and supporters of corporations like Shell Oil, Exxon, Ford, IBM, Chase Manhattan Bank, and General Motors. Together they could push economic ideas to the public through media, promote new curricula for economics education, and court politicians in nearby Washington, D.C.

At the 1997 fiftieth anniversary of the Mont Pelerin Society, MacLean recounts that Buchanan and his associate Henry Manne, a founding theorist of libertarian economic approaches to law, focused on such affronts to capitalists as environmentalism and public health and welfare, expressing eagerness to dismantle Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare as well as kill public education because it tended to foster community values. Feminism had to go, too: the scholars considered it a socialist project.

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<dc:subject>authoritarianism fascism neoliberalism history economics academic-culture American-cultural-assumptions to-read</dc:subject>
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    <title>Aztec moral philosophy didn’t expect anyone to be a saint | Aeon Essays</title>
    <dc:date>2020-07-21T17:18:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aeon.co/essays/aztec-moral-philosophy-didnt-expect-anyone-to-be-a-saint</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While Plato and Aristotle were concerned with character-centred virtue ethics, the Aztec approach is perhaps better described as socially-centred virtue ethics. If the Aztecs were right, then ‘Western’ philosophers have been too focused on individuals, too reliant on assessments of character, and too optimistic about the individual’s ability to correct her own vices. Instead, according to the Aztecs, we should look around to our family and friends, as well as our ordinary rituals or routines, if we hope to lead a better, more worthwhile existence.

This distinction bears on an important question: just how bad are good people allowed to be? Must good people be moral saints, or can ordinary folk be good if we have the right kind of support? This matters for fallible creatures, like me, who try to be good but often run into problems. Yet it also matters for questions of inclusivity. If being good requires exceptional traits, such as practical intelligence, then many people would be excluded – such as those with cognitive disabilities. That does not seem right. One of the advantages of the Aztec view, then, is that it avoids this outcome by casting virtue as a cooperative, rather than an individual, endeavour.

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<dc:subject>via:? philosophy ethics history Aztec</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://divisbyzero.com/2019/11/12/tales-of-impossibility-now-released/">
    <title>Tales of Impossibility: Now Published! – David Richeson: Division by Zero</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-05T22:43:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://divisbyzero.com/2019/11/12/tales-of-impossibility-now-released/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’m very excited to announce that my new book, Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2019), is now available! (OK. It was published about a month ago, but I am just now getting around to blogging about it.)
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<dc:subject>mathematical-recreations mathematics history to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f68a38545a70/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/useless-machines-on-alexander-calder-jed-perl-and-standing-apart/">
    <title>Useless Machines: On Alexander Calder, Jed Perl, and Standing Apart - 3:AM Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-05T22:43:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/useless-machines-on-alexander-calder-jed-perl-and-standing-apart/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How could an artist like Wolfe have possibly understood Alexander Calder, who wasn’t a tormented personality and who was by nature skeptical of the prophetic voice? What Wolfe missed completely in Calder was his gift for speaking to the world even as he stood somewhat apart from it. Calder was creating a parallel universe with its own laws and logic, but one that enlarged the possibilities of the world he was living in. Wolfe’s response to the catastrophic turn from the 1920s to the 1930s was an art of unabashed engagement and rhetorical hyperbole—raging against the rich, against capitalism, against injustice. Calder’s response to those same events was an art of cool, idealistic possibility—an art of movements and suspended movements, of circulating points, lines, planes, and spheres.

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<dc:subject>criticism art-criticism essay history to-read to-write-about consider:science-criticism</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0e4c1a53731c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://lithub.com/race-and-spectacle-in-the-circuses-of-gilded-age-america/">
    <title>Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America | Literary Hub</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-03T13:22:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lithub.com/race-and-spectacle-in-the-circuses-of-gilded-age-america/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In 1848, one of the very first accounts of an American circus parade noted that Il Signor Germani, “the great rider of Italy,” would appear “representing the Hindoo Miracles of an East India juggler, attired in the exact costume and caste of his tribe, with an Orrerry [sic] of Golden Globes and Sacred Daggers, the Sacred Vase of Destiny and Fated Bullet. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, typical circus parades included an “Asia Wagon,” with carved representations of Asian peoples on its sides, and sometimes an “Africa Wagon,” which included representations of North African Arabs along with those of sub-Saharan Africans, helping to construct a continental image of Africa in the minds of all Americans that comingled Muslim and non-Muslim African peoples.
Across America, in small towns and large cities alike, the American circus provided a constant and colorful stream of images of human otherness. In addition to representations of the United States, Russia, and Great Britain, a typical Barnum & Bailey Circus parade from 1916 included a cage with four horses and six “Orientals,” a “Tableaux India,” and five Arab boys in their “own wardrobe” riding horses.
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<dc:subject>history race colonialism rather-interesting to-write-about consider:magazine-sources</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1ca34851475c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/adam-serwer-civility/600784/">
    <title>Reconstruction’s Failure Has Lessons for Today - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-02T14:45:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/adam-serwer-civility/600784/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Paeans to a more civil past also ignore the price of that civility. It’s not an unfortunate coincidence that the men Joe Biden worked with so amicably were segregationists. The civility he longs for was the result of excluding historically marginalized groups from the polity, which allowed men like James Eastland to wield tremendous power in Congress without regard for the rights or dignity of their disenfranchised constituents.

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<dc:subject>politics civility history oppression fuck-em</dc:subject>
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    <title>lighthouse problem malfatti - Google Scholar</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-02T12:21:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C23&amp;q=lighthouse+problem+malfatti&amp;btnG=</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[google scholar search for "lighthouse problem"]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://freedomnews.org.uk/interview-ruth-kinna/">
    <title>Interview: Ruth Kinna – Freedom News</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-02T11:00:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://freedomnews.org.uk/interview-ruth-kinna/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Armand’s idea was that all institutions and relationships could be anarchised, in the same way that they could be liberalised. The difference would be that liberalising would typically result in an extension or recognition of rights, leaving both mainframes and micro-expressions of power intact, whereas anarchising involves challenging prevailing principles of authority, systems of domination and entrenchments of power. I like it because I think it helps make huge problems seem more manageable or imaginable. For example, I find it difficult to contemplate what the abolition of capitalism or the state involves. I can begin to think about the anarchisation of consumption or transport or health or education. Mutual aid is a big part of it, in that it asserts some basic principles for rebuilding social relationships. But anarchising helpfully emphasises how the environmental dimensions of Kropotkin’s concept may be aligned to constructive dismantling of exploitative institutions and practices.
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<dc:subject>anarchism authority goals interview political-economy succinctly-put history anarchisation</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2019/12/non-action-in-times-of-catastrophe.html">
    <title>Understanding Society: Non-action in times of catastrophe</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-18T13:23:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2019/12/non-action-in-times-of-catastrophe.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One other aspect of the book bears mention, though only loosely related to the theory of collective action and abdication that is the primary content of the book. Ermakoff's discussion of the challenges that come along with defining "events" is excellent (chapter 1). He correctly observes that an event is a nominal construct, amenable to definition and selection by different observers depending on their theoretical and political interests.
Events are nominal constructs. Their referents are bundles of actions and decisions that analysts and commentators abstract from the flow of historical time. This abstraction is based on a variety of criteria—temporal contiguity, causal density, and significance for subsequent happenings—routinely mobilized by synthetic judgments about the past. Because events are temporal constructs, their temporal boundaries can never be taken for granted. They take on different values depending on whether we derive these boundaries from the subjective statements left by contemporary actors (Bearman et al. 1999) or construct them in light of an analytical relevance criterion derived from the problem at hand (Sewell 1996, 877).
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<dc:subject>history it-rhymes philosophy-of-history political-economy collective-behavior culture modernism abdication seems-salient</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Historical Origins of 'Open Science': An Essay on Patronage, Reputation and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution by Paul A. David :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-19T13:53:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2209188&amp;gt</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This essay examines the economics of patronage in the production of knowledge and its influence upon the historical formation of key elements in the ethos and organizational structure of publicly funded 'open science.' The emergence during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries of the idea and practice of 'open science' was a distinctive and vital organizational aspect of the Scientific Revolution. It represented a break from the previously dominant ethos of secrecy in the pursuit of Nature's Secrets, to a new set of norms, incentives, and organizational structures that reinforced scientific researchers' commitments to rapid disclosure of new knowledge. The rise of 'cooperative rivalries' in the revelation of new knowledge, is seen as a functional response to heightened asymmetric information problems posed for the Renaissance system of court-patronage of the arts and sciences; pre-existing informational asymmetries had been exacerbated by the claims of mathematicians and the increasing practical reliance upon new mathematical techniques in a variety of 'contexts of application.' Reputational competition among Europe's noble patrons motivated much of their efforts to attract to their courts the most prestigious natural philosophers, was no less crucial in the workings of that system than was the concern among their would-be clients to raise their peer-based reputational status. In late Renaissance Europe, the feudal legacy of fragmented political authority had resulted in relations between noble patrons and their savantclients that resembled the situation modern economists describe as `common agency contracting in substitutes' - competition among incompletely informed principals for the dedicated services of multiple agents. These conditions tended to result in contract terms (especially with regard to autonomy and financial support) that left agent client members of the nascent scientific communities better positioned to retain larger information rents on their specialized knowledge. This encouraged entry into their emerging disciplines, and enabled them collectively to develop a stronger degree of professional autonomy for their programs of inquiry within the increasingly specialized and formal scientific academies (such the Académie royale des Sciences and the Royal Society) that had attracted the patronage of rival absolutist States of Western Europe during the latter part of the seventeenth century. The institutionalization of 'open science' that took place within those settings is shown to have continuities with the use by scientists of the earlier humanist academies, and with the logic of regal patronage, rather than being driven by the material requirements of new observational and experimental techniques.

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<dc:subject>open-access open-science history prestige academic-culture hierarchy pecking-order reputation to-read sociology social-capital history-of-science</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/34226">
    <title>Meykhana - The poetics of time and space</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-19T01:54:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/34226</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Right before the rhythmic, improvisational and poetic genre called meykhana was forbidden to practice in Soviet Azerbaijan, it bloomed for a short time in the beginning of previous century, and can be met in the files of theatre repertoires from that time and in a few books printed between 1919 and 1930. This period is the first time the name of the genre, Meykhana, is met. Due to its prohibition the terms kupletlər (couplets) and satirik kupletlər (satirical couplets) has been used as a replacement for the public name of the genre. Although it has found a revival after the resolution of the Soviet Union, it is still commonly regarded as belonging to low culture. A practice generally known for being appreciated by young men from Baku and its suburbs gained national status in recent history: is started to become broadcasted by national TV channels and has become a subject for debates. The genre entered the young and free market in the surface of new capitalism, which had great significance to its recent development. While in Azerbaijan meykhana today is a popular cultural phenomenon, the Azerbaijani minority in Georgia practises a religious ceremony mainly by same name.
This thesis is an initial attempt to give a literary account of this poetic improvisational genre. My field study started with the aim to observe, interview, collect and analyze texts and stanzas all within the Azerbaijani context, which is characterized by the fact that until recently it was a peripheral part of the Soviet Union. The first part of the thesis makes objective generalisations of the poetic and structural qualities of the genre, whereas the second part gives serious attention to field-grounded observations, as both being central methodologies in the modern philology.
The project has ended with two final results: The master’s thesis for University of Oslo and a book “The Poetics of Meykhana” (in Azerbaijani: Meyxananin poetikası), published together with the folklorist Nizami Tağısoy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:ismael-ahmed's-show music thesis history rather-interesting to-read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Kerr_Publishing_Company">
    <title>Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company - Wikipedia</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-10T15:56:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Kerr_Publishing_Company</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company was established in Chicago, Illinois in 1886 as Charles H. Kerr & Co. by Charles Hope Kerr, originally to promote his Unitarian views. As Kerr's personal interests moved from religion to populism to Marxism and he became interested in the labor movement, the company's publications took a similar turn. During the 1920s Kerr ceded control of the firm to the Proletarian Party of America, which continued the imprint as its official publishing house throughout its four decades of organized existence.
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<dc:subject>publishing history politics digitization have-scanned Midwest-radicalism to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://riothen.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/beautiful-covers-of-j-carlos/">
    <title>The Beautiful covers of J. Carlos | Rio Then</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-20T01:50:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://riothen.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/beautiful-covers-of-j-carlos/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some of the most beautiful magazine covers in Brazilian history were done for the magazine Para Todos, created in 1918 with a focus on movie stars (which rather blandly adorned every cover). However, in 1922, the magazine came under the artistic direction of a Rio de Janeiro-born artist, illustrator and graphic designer known as J. Carlos (aka José Carlos de Brito e Cunha, pictured below) who would create intricate, art deco covers for the magazine from 1926 until 1930.
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<dc:subject>artist history Brazil 1920s via:tumblr</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2ed8077508f6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/trump-johnson-impeachment-edmund-ross/">
    <title>Trump’s Not Richard Nixon. He’s Andrew Johnson. – Mother Jones</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-11T12:59:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/trump-johnson-impeachment-edmund-ross/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At this point, it’s a cliché to compare President Donald Trump’s present predicament to Richard Nixon and Watergate—the pathetic desperation of the crime itself, the bungling attempt at a cover-up, the release of an incriminating transcript. Fair enough. But the best parallel to Trump isn’t Nixon; it’s Johnson, a belligerent and destructive faux-populist who escaped conviction by the thinnest of margins. Though popular critics like Kennedy have long framed the Johnson impeachment as a fight over something small—an act of legalistic nitpicking—the stakes could not have been bigger. It was about what kinds of transgressions and values were worth fighting over in a country that in many ways was still at war with itself. Sometimes the biggest crimes aren’t criminal at all.

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<dc:subject>history politics fascism cultural-dynamics culture-war American-cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a22143ac71c6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/22292">
    <title>The Most Common Annotation Symbols in Early Medieval Western Manuscripts (a cheat sheet) – Mittelalter</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-22T00:34:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/22292</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This cheat sheet originally came into being on a request of colleagues and students who wanted to have a quick reference guide to the early medieval annotation symbols found in Latin manuscripts. The first version, which can still be found on Academia.edu, was produced and circulated in 2016. This is a second version (in fact a 2.1 version) which is updated and which contains a clearer identification of special classes of signs. Apart from the all-important critical signs, I now set apart the characteristic insular and Greek signs as well as identifying several signs that seem to me clearly post-Carolingian, in fact almost certainly not appearing in the evidence before the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. The main purpose of this cheat sheet is to provide scholars with the names of specific graphic symbols that can be encountered in early medieval Latin manuscripts, so that it will be easier for all of us to identify particular annotation symbols and talk about them. The names assigned to specific graphic symbols are, for the most part, taken from ancient and medieval written sources. In some cases, these sources do not reveal what were the names of particular signs and I have, thus, taken the liberty to assign them a conventional name.

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<dc:subject>history marginalia rather-interesting Middle-Ages manuscripts archivists paratexts</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0ee854271cae/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/about-ben-franklins-world/">
    <title>About Ben Franklin's World - Ben Franklin's World</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-23T11:16:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/about-ben-franklins-world/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ben Franklin’s World is a Podcast About Early American History

It is a show for people who love history and for those who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>history podcast have-listened rather-interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f584c8a72093/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@belover/prostitutes-in-the-bible-7d6404f0efe8">
    <title>Prostitutes in the Bible – Jonathan | sex &amp; theology – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-14T10:36:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@belover/prostitutes-in-the-bible-7d6404f0efe8</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[his might be shocking, but let’s take it . . . step by step? In the Bible, prostitution is never wrong, and hookers, throughout the narratives, are clearly heroines.
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:792f0695f023/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440318305776?via%3Dihub">
    <title>Knowledge of magnetism in ancient Mesoamerica: Precision measurements of the potbelly sculptures from Monte Alto, Guatemala - ScienceDirect</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-25T23:23:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440318305776?via%3Dihub</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Archeological finds from Mesoamerica and elsewhere in the New World have yielded intriguing yet inconclusive evidence for an early appreciation of magnetism among Native American peoples. Here we use scanning and handheld magnetometers to map the distribution of magnetization on eleven basalt potbelly sculptures from the Monte Alto site, now housed in La Democracia, Guatemala, dating from second half of the first millennium BCE. Our 1 cm resolution magnetic scans, performed on four sculptures, reveal for the first time that they were originally magnetized by lightning strikes pre-dating the carving process. We quantify the area and morphology of the magnetic anomalies, demonstrating that the correspondence between magnetic anomalies on the sculptures and specific anatomical features is non-random at the P = 0.01 level, which is consistent with the qualitative conclusion of an early study by Malmström (1976). The apparently intentional colocation of carved anatomical features and pre-existing magnetized regions implies that the sculptors were able to detect the presence of anomalous magnetic fields, which may have been facilitated by lodestones similar to iron oxide artifacts and iron-ore mirrors. Our observations strengthen the case for an awareness of magnetism in the ancient New World.

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<dc:subject>via:matt-massie magnetism archaeology pre-Columbian-tech history explanation cognitive-life-of-things</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:583c896cdc76/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/bracellis-bizzarie-di-varie-figure-1624/">
    <title>Bracelli’s Bizzarie di Varie Figure (1624) – The Public Domain Review</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-24T12:46:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/bracellis-bizzarie-di-varie-figure-1624/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At first glance you may be forgiven for thinking these images to have sprung from some hitherto unknown corner of the Cubist movement, but these remarkably prescient etchings are in fact the creation of an artist working a whole three centuries earlier. In 1624, Giovanni Battista Bracelli — an Italian engraver and painter working in Florence — produced an extraordinary book of prints titled Bizzarie di Varie Figure (Oddities of various figures). Its forty-seven plates show a variety of human figures mainly interacting in pairs, their bodily forms composed of a range of objects, mostly abstract – cubes, interlocking rings, and squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, braided hair, and the natural forms of trees. Although the idea of aggregating human forms from other objects was not new — famously explored half a century earlier by fellow Italian Guiseppe Arcimboldo — in their experimentation with abstraction these sketches by Bracelli truly seems to break new ground, prefiguring a certain way of thinking about the human form that would not be explored again for many centuries later.

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<dc:subject>history art abstraction innovation Italian-Renaissance</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://chadwellmon.com/2018/02/24/melancholy-mandarins-bloom-weber-and-moral-education/">
    <title>Melancholy Mandarins – chad wellmon</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-14T11:42:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chadwellmon.com/2018/02/24/melancholy-mandarins-bloom-weber-and-moral-education/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And so Bloom leaves us with the question of whether we could imagine or would want a university organized around a modern-day Socrates. Bloom doesn’t say. But he repeatedly stresses the implacable hostility of “modern science” to Socrates, and so gives readers who share his ideals little cause for optimism. Bloom concludes his book by asserting that moral education and the research university as it currently exists are a bad fit. This is a (false) truism that has been repeated many times over the past thirty years. And in the form in which Bloom and his more progressive admirer Deresiewicz frame it, the claim is particularly misleading, as misleading as the idea that there need not be any tension between traditional moral education and the research imperative. Whatever its faults, Weber’s Science as a Vocation provides a corrective to both views. In these particularly difficult times for alma mater, university presidents who are of a mind to act on the latter view would do well to read Weber’s speech of a century ago.

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<dc:subject>academic-culture history public-policy pedagogy humanities 20C politics-and-apolitics-sittin-in-a-tree</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://lithub.com/the-lesser-known-life-behindthe-yellow-wallpaper/">
    <title>The Lesser Known Life Behind'The Yellow Wallpaper' | Literary Hub</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-29T12:58:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lithub.com/the-lesser-known-life-behindthe-yellow-wallpaper/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[She wrote it to change one man’s mind. She succeeded.
“It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy,” said Gilman, “and it worked.”
]]></description>
<dc:subject>literary-criticism history why-we-write</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b8a6c5ceaf3a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/history-sex-why-important-harris-list-covent-garden-ladies-historian/">
    <title>Being A Sex Historian: How Do You Research The History Of Sex? - History Extra</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-27T11:44:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/history-sex-why-important-harris-list-covent-garden-ladies-historian/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Despite images of sex being everywhere in our society, we remain deeply uncomfortable with the subject. We may be happy enough to watch Louis XIV lust his way through the French court in BBC drama Versailles, but when it comes to talking about our own sex lives and bodies, we are far less enthusiastic. This cultural ambivalence around sex presents sex historians with a unique professional stumbling block – talking seriously about a subject that is laden with embarrassment, titillation, and a hefty amount of ‘OOOH Matron’. I have researched sex history for most of my academic career and the nature of the subject regularly presents me with socially awkward situations. For example, it doesn’t matter how grown-up you try to be, there will always be something mildly embarrassing about an editor calling you up to ask if you want ‘blowjob’ hyphenating in your chapter about sperm. And if you felt uncomfortable reading the word ‘blowjob’ on BBC History Magazine’s website, then you see my point.

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<dc:subject>history the-docile-body-of-the-author rather-interesting facets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2adbfb03177a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://werehistory.org/the-immortal-major-jack-downing-and-the-rise-of-american-political-humor/">
    <title>The Immortal Major: Jack Downing and the Rise of American Political Humor : We're History</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-26T13:43:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://werehistory.org/the-immortal-major-jack-downing-and-the-rise-of-american-political-humor/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This month marks the 160th anniversary of the publication of Smith’s My Thirty Years Out of the Senate. Regrettably, few Americans today have heard the name Seba Smith, let alone engaged with the escapades of Major Jack Downing. Although lauded as the greatest humorist of his era, Smith’s work quickly faded from popular memory. With the exception of a reissue produced in 1973, My Thirty Years Out of the Senate remains out of print. Even historians have largely overlooked Downing in their studies of Jacksonian popular culture. Given the current popularity of humorists such as Stephen Colbert, whose comic persona resembles that of Major Jack Downing, one can only wonder if future generations will remember the ways in which modern comics critiqued politicians and public policies through satire. Will the Colberts of the comedic world be studied one hundred years from now, or, like Smith, will they fade from popular memory? At the very least, modern Americans should acquaint themselves with Seba Smith and remember his greatest creation, Major Jack Downing, who tried for over three decades to “exert a salutary influence upon public affairs and the politics of the country.”

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<dc:subject>politics satire history to-read public-domain</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fd46cf53c401/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://contingentmag.org/donate/">
    <title>Donate | CONTINGENT</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-23T12:46:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://contingentmag.org/donate/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Beginning March 4, Contingent will publish high-quality, accessible content about the past and the many ways we understand it. Your donations will allow us to pay our contributors for their work, pay the staff who’ll keep the magazine going, and maintain the infrastructure necessary to run a digital non-profit.

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<dc:subject>history open-access nonprofit rather-interesting publishing to-watch to-do</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d6397bfa6bda/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002535">
    <title>BBC Radio 4 - James Burke's Web of Knowledge</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-13T11:09:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002535</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For James Burke knowledge doesn't go in predictable straight lines. Here he proves that random connections between people can result in profound and unpredictable consequences.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>podcast wish-it-were-in-podcast-format history history-of-science rather-interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3e77fc11d607/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://lithub.com/on-the-kidnapped-african-boy-who-became-a-german-philosopher/">
    <title>On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher | Literary Hub</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-10T16:31:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lithub.com/on-the-kidnapped-african-boy-who-became-a-german-philosopher/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In 1707, a boy no more than five years old left Axim, on the African Gold Coast, for Amsterdam, aboard a ship belonging to the Dutch West India Company. In those days, the trip to Europe took many weeks, but his arrival in the Dutch port was not the end of his long journey. He then had to travel another few hundred miles to Wolfenbüttel, the home of Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Anton Ulrich was a major patron of the European Enlightenment. His librarian was Gottfried Leibniz, one of the leading philosophers, mathematicians, and inventors of his era, and co-creator, with Isaac Newton, of calculus; and the ducal library in Wolfenbüttel housed one of the most magnificent book collections in the world.
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<dc:subject>history colonialism literary-criticism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b093c874973a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/07/21/abolition-and-emancipation-were-not-the-same-thing/chronicles/who-we-were/">
    <title>Abolition and Emancipation Were Not the Same Thing | Essay | Zócalo Public Square</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-05T09:48:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/07/21/abolition-and-emancipation-were-not-the-same-thing/chronicles/who-we-were/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Too many of these stories are unknown, because their subjects were ordinary people who did not make much of an impression upon history. Rose Herera used to be one of them. But luckily, I stumbled across her story tucked away in an obscure Senate report, published in 1866, about a rumor that black people in the South were being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Cuba.

Even though I am a professional historian of 19th-century America, I had never heard of this rumor, or Rose Herera, but the report piqued my curiosity and I wanted to learn more. So I began my own quest to track Rose Herera’s life, and the fate of her children, across sacramental registers, bills of sale, newspaper ads, city directories, court minutes, lawyers’ effects, and dead letters in Washington, New Orleans, and Havana.

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<dc:subject>history slavery American-history nanohistory revolution object-lessons</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3a5cc78a7a89/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.ladyscience.com/blog/archive-of-hate-ethics-of-care-in-the-preservation-of-ugly-histories">
    <title>Archive of Hate: Ethics of Care in the Preservation of Ugly Histories — Lady Science</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-21T11:45:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ladyscience.com/blog/archive-of-hate-ethics-of-care-in-the-preservation-of-ugly-histories</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the collection would only be accessed by using a public library computer or logging in with institutional credentials. Perhaps users would be required to register and electronically sign use policies. Perhaps content warnings would help users to determine if they want to proceed with viewing potentially traumatic materials. Without working closely with people of color, we don’t yet know what a caring digital platform looks like in the case of KKK newspapers, or even if one is possible.

As it stands now, however, the Hate in America collection fails to enact an ethic of care, so we call upon our readers to raise their voices to Reveal Digital. The online collection will not be made openly available until a funding threshold is reached, anticipated in 2019. Researchers and librarians, you can advocate for change to the access model before the collection becomes public. Libraries, you can withdraw or withhold commitment until Reveal Digital leaders engage librarians of color, race scholars, and anti-racist activists in dialogue about how to balance access and care.

]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBn6VgoF3fE">
    <title>Computer based design of Islamic geometric patterns - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-18T11:51:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBn6VgoF3fE</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Computer based design of Islamic geometric patterns]]></description>
<dc:subject>lecture islamic-art plane-geometry generative-models algorithms aesthetics history compass-and-straightedge-constructions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:algorithms"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://bostonreview.net/race/caitlin-c-rosenthal-how-slavery-inspired-modern-business-management#.XDTGfUvr4w0.facebook">
    <title>How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-18T02:49:54+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Of course, the ticking of a stopwatch is wildly different from the lash of the whip—or a whip and a watch used in tandem, as was the case on some plantations. But there is nonetheless something revealing and deeply troubling about the analogy, particularly because proponents of scientific management sometimes used the language of slavery as well—and not to condemn the system but to praise it. One associate of Taylor’s, Scudder Klyce, argued that scientific management was simply a system of “Cooperation or democracy,” but Klyce’s definition of democracy was decidedly undemocratic: he describes it as a system that “consists of the able person’s taking the lead in giving ‘orders’ in the cases where he is of superior ability, and the others’ submitting: it is the relationship of master and slave, regardless of how otherwise it may be named.” From the manager’s perspective, control was the essential characteristic of scientific management. The relations of control could change over time: “At any time a lathe hand may be able to show the superintendent a better way.” But from the perspective of workers, fleeting reversals offered little benefit. When they showed the superintendent a better way, they gave up their own power. They rendered themselves replaceable.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09989">
    <title>[1811.09989] The dry history of liquid computers</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-05T13:49:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09989</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A liquid can be used to represent signals, actuate mechanical computing devices and to modify signals via chemical reactions. We give a brief overview of liquid based computing devices developed over hundreds of years. These include hydraulic calculators, fluidic computers, micro-fluidic devices, droplets, liquid marbles and reaction-diffusion chemical computers.
]]></description>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0b3266c41a99/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-higher-naivete.html">
    <title>Laudator Temporis Acti: The Higher Naiveté</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-26T11:42:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-higher-naivete.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And so there is this critical school that says, "I won't believe anything unless it is proven to me." At the other extreme, there's me, the most gullible historian imaginable. My principle is this. I believe anything written in ancient Latin or Greek unless I can't. Now, things that prevent me from believing what I read are that they are internally contradictory, or what they say is impossible, or different ones contradict each other and they can't both be right. So, in those cases I abandon the ancient evidence. Otherwise, you've got to convince me that they’re not true. 
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://publicdomainreview.org/conjectures/the-primordial-gound/">
    <title>The Primordial Gound – The Public Domain Review</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-21T13:05:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://publicdomainreview.org/conjectures/the-primordial-gound/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The piece that follows displays a number of the signature characteristics of the classic nineteenth-century genre known as mystification. We have an author who takes us winningly into his confidence as he discusses an intricate tale of old texts lost and recovered, all the while tipping his hand concerning the ambiguous status of the source material at issue. Kant in Sumatra? The Third Critique and the cosmologies of Melanesia? What is going on? Read on, and make of all of this what you will (or can!). But a quick thought: much philosophy (Justin E. H. Smith’s stock-in-trade), like most argumentative writing in history and every other branch of learned endeavor, seeks to compel assent — to leave the reader as little room as possible for thought-escape. To think well in such a textual ecology demands the cultivation of a capacity to find what we might think of as “worm holes” in the world of learned scholarship: loci that drop open into the infinite space of other possibilities. Sometimes such trapdoors can be opened in a footnote or paratext, or, as here, in a tiny textual emendation, through which we are encouraged to glimpse a thoroughly different fundamental ground for all experience. I am not a Geisterseher, Professor Skrastiņš assures Professor Smith — not a ghost-seer. But is that what we need to be if we are to see clearly through the heavy curtains of erudition?
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<dc:subject>history explorations amusing to-do to-write-about to-follow paratext</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.uncpress.org/book/9780807848593/slippery-characters/">
    <title>Slippery Characters | Laura Browder | University of North Carolina Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-18T11:40:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.uncpress.org/book/9780807848593/slippery-characters/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities.
Significantly, notes Browder, these ersatz autobiographies have tended to appear at flashpoints in American history: in the decades before the Civil War, when immigration laws and laws regarding Native Americans were changing in the 1920s, and during the civil rights era, for example. Examining the creation and reception of such works from the 1830s through the 1990s--against a background ranging from the abolition movement and Wild West shows to more recent controversies surrounding blackface performance and jazz music--Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.

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<dc:subject>forgery autobiographical history rather-interesting literary-criticism speaking-as to-write-about</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/33/burnett_grafton.php">
    <title>CABINET // Deception as a Way of Knowing: A Conversation with Anthony Grafton</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-18T11:30:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/33/burnett_grafton.php</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Anxiety about deception runs deep in the philosophical and religious traditions of Europe, and new techniques for mastering this fear mark episodes in the history of the modern world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, both the playfulness and the peril of deceit came to be distanced from the sphere of rational inquiry: the sciences ceased to have much use for legerdemain; metaphysicians lost interest in the theater. But it was not always so, as the conversation below with Anthony Grafton suggests. Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of a shelf of major works on the­ Renaissance, classical scholarship, ­and the history of science, including Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (Princeton University Press, 1990).­ ­D. Graham Burnett, editor at Cabinet and also professor of history at Princeton, sat down with Grafton to discuss his work on deception and forgery­.

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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02841">
    <title>[1808.02841] On divergent Series</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-07T16:03:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02841</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is the translation of Leonhard Euler's paper "De Seriebus divergentibus" written in Latin into English. Leonhard Euler defines and discusses divergent series. He is especially interested in the example 1!−2!+3!−etc. and uses different methods to sum it. He finds a value of about 0.59....
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<dc:subject>mathematics history translation series to-write-about rather-interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9bef961b0d14/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07006">
    <title>[1808.07006] Observations on continued fractions</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-07T16:01:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07006</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a translation of Euler's Latin paper "De fractionibus continuis observationes" into English. In this paper Euler describes his theory of continued fractions. He teaches, how to transform series into continued fractions, solves the Riccati-Differential equation by means of continued fractions and finds many other interesting formulas and results (e.g, the continued fraction for the quotient of two hypergeometric series usually attributed to Gau{\ss})
]]></description>
<dc:subject>continued-fractions translation mathematics history rather-interesting to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f87b0626bf5c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00173">
    <title>[1810.00173] On solids whose (entire) surface can be unfolded onto a plane</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-07T16:00:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00173</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is the English translation of Leonhard Euler's Latin paper "De solidis quorum superficiem in planum explicare licet". Euler explains several methods to obtain equations for developable surfaces. Therefore, this paper might be interesting for anyone studying the history of Differential Geometry.
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<dc:subject>geometry history mathematics translation rather-interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:053eb3b6178d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/1918-forgotten-year-death">
    <title>1918: The Forgotten Year of Death | The Order of the Good Death</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-03T11:34:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/1918-forgotten-year-death</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wartime restrictions on communication had deadly effects, including in the United States. President Wilson’s Committee on Public Information and the Sedition Act passed by Congress both limited writing or publishing anything negative about the country. Federally-issued posters asked the public to “report the man who spreads pessimistic stories.” John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, writes in an article for Smithsonian Magazine about a particularly tragic consequence of this militant protection of morale. In Philadelphia, doctors pushed for the Liberty Loan parade on September 28 to be canceled, as they were concerned the concentration of people would spur the disease. “They convinced reporters to write stories about the danger,” Barry writes. “But editors refused to run them, and refused to print letters from doctors. The largest parade in Philadelphia’s history proceeded on schedule.” Two days later, the epidemic had indeed spread, and over just six weeks, more than 12,000 citizens of Philadelphia died.]]></description>
<dc:subject>epidemiology influenza propaganda social-dynamics politics public-health history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html">
    <title>Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-20T12:16:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Conquistadors are often associated with Mexico, but a thirst for gold drove them into the Midwest as well.

Francisco Vazquez de Coronado came to central Kansas in 1541 chasing stories of a fabulously wealthy nobleman who napped beneath trees festooned with tinkling gold bells. He found no gold, but he did find Native Americans in a collection of settlements he dubbed Quivira.

In 1601, Juan de Oñate led about 70 conquistadors from the Spanish colony of New Mexico into south-central Kansas in search of Quivira in the hopes of finding gold, winning converts for the Catholic Church and extracting tribute for the crown.

According to Spanish records, they ran into a tribe called the Escanxaques, who told of a large city nearby where a Spaniard was allegedly imprisoned. The locals called it Etzanoa.

As the Spaniards drew near, they spied numerous grass houses along the bluffs. A delegation of Etzanoans bearing round corn cakes met them on the river bank. They were described as a sturdy people with gentle dispositions and stripes tattooed from their eyes to their ears. It was a friendly encounter until the conquistadors decided to take hostages. That prompted the entire city to flee.

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<dc:subject>archaeology Kansas midwest history rather-interesting lost-cities data-fusion humanities</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d'Aubigny">
    <title>Julie d'Aubigny - Wikipedia</title>
    <dc:date>2018-07-29T00:00:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d'Aubigny</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Julie d'Aubigny (1670/1673–1707), better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a 17th-century swordswoman and opera singer. Her tumultuous career and flamboyant life were the subject of gossip and colourful stories in her own time, and inspired numerous portrayals afterwards. Théophile Gautier loosely based the title character, Madeleine de Maupin, of his novel Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) on her.
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<dc:subject>history things-I-did't-know via:twitter</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fbce3ab178ec/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/vera-molnar-in-thinking-machines-at-moma/">
    <title>The Artist Who Drew With Computers, Before Computers Were a Thing - SURFACE</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-07T11:46:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/vera-molnar-in-thinking-machines-at-moma/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“What makes Molnár’s work so important today is that her ability to experiment was aided and amplified by the tools she used,” say Anderson and Bianconi. “This spirit of experimentation allowed these works to be both systematic and humanistic, and has been influential for artists who have worked with computers since.”
]]></description>
<dc:subject>generative-art art-criticism history to-write-about exhibition</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5aa61e0b4486/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1886v1">
    <title>[1406.1886v1] The Z1: Architecture and Algorithms of Konrad Zuse's First Computer</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-30T11:59:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1886v1</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This paper provides the first comprehensive description of the Z1, the mechanical computer built by the German inventor Konrad Zuse in Berlin from 1936 to 1938. The paper describes the main structural elements of the machine, the high-level architecture, and the dataflow between components. The computer could perform the four basic arithmetic operations using floating-point numbers. Instructions were read from punched tape. A program consisted of a sequence of arithmetical operations, intermixed with memory store and load instructions, interrupted possibly by input and output operations. Numbers were stored in a mechanical memory. The machine did not include conditional branching in the instruction set. While the architecture of the Z1 is similar to the relay computer Zuse finished in 1941 (the Z3) there are some significant differences. The Z1 implements operations as sequences of microinstructions, as in the Z3, but does not use rotary switches as micro-steppers. The Z1 uses a digital incrementer and a set of conditions which are translated into microinstructions for the exponent and mantissa units, as well as for the memory blocks. Microinstructions select one out of 12 layers in a machine with a 3D mechanical structure of binary mechanical elements. The exception circuits for mantissa zero, necessary for normalized floating-point, were lacking; they were first implemented in the Z3. The information for this article was extracted from careful study of the blueprints drawn by Zuse for the reconstruction of the Z1 for the German Technology Museum in Berlin, from some letters, and from sketches in notebooks. Although the machine has been in exhibition since 1989 (non-operational), no detailed high-level description of the machine's architecture had been available. This paper fills that gap.
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<dc:subject>computer history reverse-engineering engineering-design nanohistory to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:af2d5784c545/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.politicalorphans.com/the-article-removed-from-forbes-why-white-evangelicalism-is-so-cruel/">
    <title>The article removed from Forbes, “Why White Evangelicalism Is So Cruel” – Political Orphans</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-15T11:18:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politicalorphans.com/the-article-removed-from-forbes-why-white-evangelicalism-is-so-cruel/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[**This was originally posted to Forbes on Sunday, Mar 11. Forbes took it down today. This is the explanation I received from the editor. Here is the original article in full:

Robert Jeffress, Pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas and an avid supporter of Donald Trump, earned headlines this week for his defense of the president’s adultery with a porn star. Regarding the affair and subsequent financial payments, Jeffress explained, “Even if it’s true, it doesn’t matter.”

Such a casual attitude toward adultery and prostitution might seem odd from a guy who blamed 9/11 on America’s sinfulness. However, seen through the lens of white evangelicals’ real priorities, Jeffress’ disinterest in Trump’s sordid lifestyle makes sense. Religion is inseparable from culture, and culture is inseparable from history. Modern, white evangelicalism emerged from the interplay between race and religion in the slave states. What today we call “evangelical Christianity,” is the product of centuries of conditioning, in which religious practices were adapted to nurture a slave economy. The calloused insensitivity of modern white evangelicals was shaped by the economic and cultural priorities that forged their theology over centuries.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics conservatism religion American-cultural-assumptions history essay banned-essay</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00279">
    <title>[1612.00279] Nicolas-Auguste Tissot: A link between cartography and quasiconformal theory</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-24T14:37:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00279</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nicolas-Auguste Tissot (1824--1897) published a series of papers on cartography in which he introduced a tool which became known later on, among geographers, under the name of the "Tissot indicatrix." This tool was broadly used during the twentieth century in the theory and in the practical aspects of the drawing of geographical maps. The Tissot indicatrix is a graphical representation of a field of ellipses on a map that describes its distortion. Tissot studied extensively, from a mathematical viewpoint, the distortion of mappings from the sphere onto the Euclidean plane that are used in drawing geographical maps, and more generally he developed a theory for the distorsion of mappings between general surfaces. His ideas are at the heart of the work on quasiconformal mappings that was developed several decades after him by Gr{\"o}tzsch, Lavrentieff, Ahlfors and Teichm{\"u}ller. Gr{\"o}tzsch mentions the work of Tissot and he uses the terminology related to his name (in particular, Gr{\"o}tzsch uses the Tissot indicatrix). Teichm{\"u}ller mentions the name of Tissot in a historical section in one of his fundamental papers where he claims that quasiconformal mappings were used by geographers, but without giving any hint about the nature of Tissot's work. The name of Tissot is also missing from all the historical surveys on quasiconformal mappings. In the present paper, we report on this work of Tissot. We shall also mention some related works on cartography, on the differential geometry of surfaces, and on the theory of quasiconformal mappings. This will place Tissot's work in its proper context. The final version of this paper will appear in the journal Arch. Hist. Exact Sciences.
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<dc:subject>history history-of-science philosophy-of-engineering maps performance-measure to-write-about consider:generalization</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/11/mutilation.html">
    <title>Laudator Temporis Acti: Mutilation</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-26T13:21:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/11/mutilation.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The East Pediment fared particularly badly. Hands, feet, even whole limbs have gone — almost certainly smashed off by Christians trying to incapacitate the demons within. The vast majority of the gods have been decapitated — again, almost certainly the work of Christians. The great central figures of the Pediment, that would have shown the birth of Athena, were the most sacred — and thus to the Christians the most demonic. They therefore suffered most: it is likely that they were pushed off the Pediment and smashed on the ground below, their fragmented remains ground down and used for mortar for a Christian church. 
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<dc:subject>history cultural-dynamics iconoclasm to-write-about</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mathematician-ken-onos-life-inspired-by-ramanujan-20160519">
    <title>The Mathematician Ken Ono’s Life Inspired by Ramanujan | Quanta Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-23T10:40:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mathematician-ken-onos-life-inspired-by-ramanujan-20160519</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[KEN ONO: First, he was really a poet, not a problem solver. Most professional mathematicians, whether they’re in academia or industry, have problems that they’re aiming to solve. Somebody wants to prove the Riemann hypothesis, and sets out to do it. That’s how we think science should proceed, and in fact almost every scientist should work that way, because in reality science develops through the work of thousands of individuals slowly adding to a body of knowledge. But what you find in Ramanujan’s original notebooks is just formula after formula, and it’s not apparent where he’s going with his ideas. He was someone who could set down the paths of beginnings of important theories without knowing for sure why we would care about them as mathematicians of the future.

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<item rdf:about="https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/the-origins-of-american-fascism/">
    <title>The Origins of American Fascism | Michael Joseph Roberto | Monthly Review</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-23T10:09:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/the-origins-of-american-fascism/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the U.S. capitalist epicenter, the driving force of fascism came from the capitalist class itself, intent on extending and protecting the wealth and power it had gained during the boom years of the 1920s. In Germany, by contrast, fascism found its natural base in a disaffected lower middle class moved by rising nationalist anger over the punitive accords of Versailles. In Germany, terrorist ultra-nationalism brought Hitler and his party to power. In the United States, capitalists with the assistance of the State smashed labor during the Red Scare and shared common ground with reactionary terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan in promoting the doctrine of “100 percent Americanism.” However, from 1922 until 1929 they propagated a more palatable nationalism in the form of the American Plan, a strategy of the “open shop” and company unions, used against organized labor.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>fascism debt uh-oh history but-it-rhymes</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08412">
    <title>[1711.08412] Word Embeddings Quantify 100 Years of Gender and Ethnic Stereotypes</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-03T14:03:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08412</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Word embeddings use vectors to represent words such that the geometry between vectors captures semantic relationship between the words. In this paper, we develop a framework to demonstrate how the temporal dynamics of the embedding can be leveraged to quantify changes in stereotypes and attitudes toward women and ethnic minorities in the 20th and 21st centuries in the United States. We integrate word embeddings trained on 100 years of text data with the U.S. Census to show that changes in the embedding track closely with demographic and occupation shifts over time. The embedding captures global social shifts -- e.g., the women's movement in the 1960s and Asian immigration into the U.S -- and also illuminates how specific adjectives and occupations became more closely associated with certain populations over time. Our framework for temporal analysis of word embedding opens up a powerful new intersection between machine learning and quantitative social science.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>digital-humanities text-processing big-data rather-interesting history to-write-about sociology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fe9693f7f45d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ianwelsh.net/china-thinks-strategically-and-we-dont/">
    <title>China Thinks Strategically and We Don’t | Ian Welsh</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-12T13:23:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ianwelsh.net/china-thinks-strategically-and-we-dont/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our states are poor. Their ideology, with a few exceptions (smaller countries, all) is to let the rich get richer and have the rich spend money. So instead of NASA leading a huge space program, we have a variety of private companies like SpaceX building technology which a rich state would have created 20 years ago.

China doesn’t think this way. Chinese citizens may not be as rich as the average westerner (though there are plenty of rich Chinese as every world-class city that allows foreigners to buy its real-estate has found out, much to the sorrow of its ordinary citizens), but the state is rich, and the state and the companies it controls and influences are rich.

Most of our companies are not driven by the bottom line. Rather, they are driven by how much money they can create for those who control them. This is often not the case for Chinese companies.

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<dc:subject>political-economy world-politics history economics planning to-watch</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ca5237e3030c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.publicbooks.org/big-picture-confederate-revisionist-history/">
    <title>The Big Picture: Confederate Revisionist History | Public Books</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-12T13:04:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.publicbooks.org/big-picture-confederate-revisionist-history/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Thus the Confederate revolt was not about states’ rights, it was about protecting the institution of chattel slavery from a remote future threat. Proof of the centrality of slavery to the Southern cause lies in the Confederate Constitution itself, in which the cryptic references to persons “held to Service or Labour” were replaced with explicit references to slaves and Negroes. Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 3, for example, stated that “no bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed” (italics my own). Apart from these substitutions, the Confederate Constitution was identical to the original US Constitution in all respects.
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<dc:subject>history politics well-summarized American-cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
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    <title>Abandoned Footnotes: Utopia and Revolution</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-11T14:10:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2017/10/utopia-and-revolution.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(Mostly a disorganized discussion of Richard Stites’ superb Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, by someone who is not a historian. Contains half-baked analogies to current events).
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