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New essay out today on the long deep history of subjectivity, technologies of communication and of the self, and the surprising loop-backs of our world of digital lives and AI agents into that of the Paleolithic, link below:
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This lithographic view of the Grand Canyon by William H. Holmes in Clarrence E. Dutton's 1882 Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District looks like it could be concept art for a very good sci-fi film, just incredible
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Ironically given this guy's byline the article he's presenting as some sort of gotcha reads like it comes straight out of the Wall Street Journal, to take it as some endorsement of political Islamism is genuinely insane
Breaking: I've uncovered an apparently unreported 2012 Al Jazeera article coauthored by Abdul El-Sayed that praises the Muslim Brotherhood's electoral success in Egypt and portrays the Islamist movement in remarkably flattering terms.
At the time, the Brotherhood-led bloc had 47% of Egypt's parliamentary seats, while the ultraconservative Salafist Al-Nour bloc secured another 24%.
Together, Islamist parties controlled roughly 71% of the elected seats.
Yet El-Sayed and his coauthor (a Harvard scholar, because of course) enthusiastically described Egypt's political transformation as looking "more promising than ever."
They also argued that the Islamist parties' electoral successes reflected their domestic platforms and "histories of social justice" more than popular support for their Islamic ideologies.
El-Sayed wasn't merely celebrating the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. He was expressing optimism about Egypt's political future AFTER the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists had overwhelmingly won the parliamentary elections.
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Now it's possible that Fischberger lacks basic reading comprehension and interpretation skills but I doubt it, he's banking on his audience's gullibility and total lack of even basic critical analytical skills. Very bleak
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El-Sayed's argument, incidentally, is pure neoliberalism, it's as far from being radical or leftist as you can get lol
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Incidentally I was driving across the north side of Whitfield County yesterday when it hit me how at some point over the last year the last vestiges of Trump stuff disappeared from the rural South, went from ubiquitous to sporadic to just gone
Biggest swing in GA. Home of the carpeting industry relient on latino labor. ICE has been terrorizing the county detaining young people wrongfully which has been a major local story.
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It might be short-term, who knows, but there have been real shifts in the rural South as of late and it may well accelerate
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Big factor of course is that much of the rural South is pretty old and will tend to remain conservative in the sense of sticking to their ways; on the other hand many are going to feel real pressures as they- and their home counties- age and become more and more dependent
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The Cohutta Wilderness in northwest Georgia is as far as I can tell mostly unknown outside of the immediate region, it's legit wild- trails barely maintained, big forest fire swathes with tons of blowdowns, bears and hogs everywhere- but man it's gorgeous
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It's the westernmost extension of the main range of the Appalachians (excluding the various Ridge and Valley ranges that continue down into Alabama), probably not coincidentally Fort Mountain, the very western edge of the sub-range, has extensive Native American stoneworks on it
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Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹 retweeted
I attended the funeral of Chris Wickham today. He was the greatest medieval historian since Marc Bloch. He was a man of enormous kindness and generosity, without whose support I would never have had an academic job or published anything. I was not his student. He owed me nothing. My doctoral viva was pretty brutal because I was being a bit too controversial for my examiners, but he had heard of my thesis, read it, and said how much he liked it and volunteered to write for me for jobs. I am still here thanks to Chris (for good or ill).
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Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹 retweeted
Critical editions of the future will detail the textual divergences between branches with names like ManuscriptFinalREVISED.docx and ManuscriptFinalFinalFIXED(1).pdf.
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I don't really ever want to move back to Mississippi- I was born there, lived there as a small baby and then during my teenage and college years, left in 2008, probably for good- but every now and then part of me misses the place
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Being more concerned with the good and well-being of human beings made in the image of Almighty God than with the integrity or otherwise of some state's projection of power is a sign that one's moral and theological priors are very much in right order
Biggest shift is apparently Latino men, Catholics, Latino women, 18-29 — all to say: third-world sympathizers generally more concerned about the plight of immigrants than the sovereignty of America.
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