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Eric Hounshell
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Eric Hounshell
@EricHounshell
historian of social knowledge, modern Europe and US. would usually rather be outdoors. LA🇺🇸/Wien🇦🇹.
Katılım Aralık 2021
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Shipley's donuts is 0.3 mi from our house. My daughters INSISTED on biking on Sun morning. I regretted giving in to their demand. Thanks to @HoustonTX making sidewalks abutting property owner responsibility and @CenterPoint not caring this is the experience. 1/2
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For the complete TOC: parapraxismagazine.com/magazine
Subscribe today and get copies of 06: Resistance (Summer) and 07: Romance (Winter): parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/subscr…
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Announcing Issue 06: Resistance, now available for pre-order.
Essays by Fady Joudah (@FadyJoudah), Jamieson Webster (@jamiesonwebster), Dylan Saba (@shaabiranks), Yasmin El-Riafe, Ussama Makdisi (@UssamaMakdisi), Mary Turfah (@maryturfah), Hannah Proctor (@hhnnccnnll) & more.
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How much longer will this continue before we change course?
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@joguldi long land war ch 13 & epilogue paired (imperfectly) with some news articles on the Yurok of California
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My second talk at the University of Glasgow will connect the history of land politics to affairs in Scotland. Wednesday 11th June 2025, 4-5, “The Long Land War: Scotland and Ireland in the longue durée”, Global History Research Cluster, joint with Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies, Gilbert Scott 250
eventbrite.co.uk/e/jo-guldi-the… (alt text: The Long Land War, 1881-1990)
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From Alfred Kroeber, "California Culture Provinces" (1920)
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@samhaselby yes, the minorities question. I think I learned this from Gerald Stourzh.
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@EricHounshell Ha. I didn't know that. Generations of intellectuals have been misled by Richard Hofstadter's appraisal of Calhoun, "The Marx of the Master Class," based on a wildly aggrandizing anti-communist assessment of Calhoun's totally impractical and never adopted theories.
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Problem is that 20th century Americans across the political spectrum embraced eugenics, and IQ remains an organizing concept in professional fields full of liberals and even progressives. So what Slobodian has done, it seems, is write a DEI report on the Mont Pelerin Society. 🤷♂️
Daniel Denvir@DanielDenvir
Quinn Slobodian on Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. Anarcho-capitalist/paleo-libertarian mutant neoliberals promoting IQ as measure of value; hard borders for humans w free trade for capital; gold as only true currency thedigradio.com/podcast/hayeks…
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@samhaselby as an aside about the flaws of this approach: a great admirer of Calhoun's work was...wait for it...the great Austrian-Jewish theorist of the multinational state, Georg Jellinek.
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The Resistance Historian method has been to find a guy in the past whom liberals already despise and blame MAGA on his racism. Heather Richardson blames John C Calhoun, Kevin Kruse blames Richard Nixon. Neither of them have anything to do with MAGA. Adding Charles Murray...
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For my seminar, reread this excellent article by Lisa Song and James Temple on the creation of "ghost credits" in carbon offset programs, including on tribal lands. propublica.org/article/the-cl…
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Orphaned again!
Helen Thompson POLIS@HelenHet20
It was a pleasure to podcast with @tommctague on @TheseTimesPod for the last couple of years. We started with the coronation and ended with a lot of Donald Trump. Thanks very much indeed to @freddiesayers and to everyone who listened. All the comments were much appreciated.
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Problem w/ the resistance genealogy technique of finding some guy in the past (Nixon, Pat Buchanan, Mises) the libs already hate and "tracing" MAGA to his racism is it requires ignoring tons and tons of other eugenicists such as the founders of the...
Eric Hounshell@EricHounshell
@samhaselby Sierra Club!
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...third of the 20th century which weren't influenced by eugenics than those that were. Patrick Buchanan and Charles Murray are for sure racist and contemptible figures. But they are also marginal powerless figures whom the liberal establishment already reviles. Soft...
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Quinn Slobodian has given us by far the wackiest theory of MAGA yet and if he ever comes back social media I would love to ask him some questions about all this. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…
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@STS_News "nationalism" studies was pretty good though. two quick shining examples: Anderson "Imagined Communities" and Wolf/Cole "Hidden Frontier" both deeply materialist investigations.
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I have been thinking a lot about what I call "-ism Studies," which I take to be a form of idealism in that ideas are doing all the acting. It really is a rejection of a materialist approach to the study of society, very much including social history.
Sam Haselby@samhaselby
@STS_News but, Lee, Mises had a bad idea (at least if we misrepresent him) and that's why we have MAGA! No need to learn about American history or America.
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For Mothers' Day, some excerpts from the biography draft about Musil's mother, Hermine (access in reply).
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AI is definitely making the situation worse. But I think “deep reading” (sustained immersion in a long form text) would be in rapid decline even if chatbots did not exist, due to social media/YouTube/the perpetually accessible and infinite supply of audiovisual infotainment
rayne fisher-quann@raynefq
ai is regularly framed to writers as a threat in terms of competition, i.e. that ai will replace you by writing essays/fiction/etc itself. I have long thought that its primary threat to writers is actually that it will engender a majority population that functionally cannot read
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Here for the new Jia Zhanke content
Le Cinéma Club@lecinemaclub
“What is cinema, and what can it become?.” JIA ZHANGKE on Sergei Eisenstein’s BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN The renowned Chinese filmmaker shared five of his favorite films with us, ranging from arthouse staples to Taiwanese New Wave landmarks. lecinemaclub.com/journal/jia-zh…
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