#Modernist

Arthur Asseraf

ArthurAsseraf

Algiers is one of the most beautiful cities in the world (I like to think I'm pretty objective about this because I'm not Algerian )It's also one of the least

Haajara

haajara

1. Saw a tweet questioning why Nigerian houses tend to have teeny tiny windows, there’s a myriad of reasons why our homes and cities look the way they do now.

Isabela Granic

PlayNiceInst

A thread on poetry and medicine. The healing power of poetry goes beyond being soothed, being distracted, and feeling deep empathy & connection during pain and suffering. There are physical

Kyle Chayka

chaykak

My first book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism is on shelves today from @bloomsburypub! You can order it here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-longing-for-less-9781635572100/ But I also wanted to do a thread

Benjamin Park

BenjaminEPark

In honor of passing 10k followers, how about a #MormonAmerica thread? (For those new: these are historical threads drawn from my current book project.)Tonight, let's talk about the rise &

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/Kenosha Shootings:The same eventThe same set of picturesThe same set of videosThe same available audioThe same timelineThe same available set of facts....Two completely different conclusions.Let's talk about why. A thread

Christopher Barrie

cbarrie

After an initial exchange re this article and tweet, @epkaufm agreed to share some crosstabs of the original data with me. below visualizes these data and lays out my

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

1/25 A central part of my research is guided by poetry and by its incredible importance for historical study. Unfortunately, some historians have abused poetry, ransacking it for historical argument

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 22, 1988. The Brazilian rubber union leader and environmentalist Chico Mendes is murdered by a far-right cattle rancher. Let's talk about the connections between

Patrick Henningsen

21WIRE

(1/25) #2020Lessons: Not sure if anyone else noticed: many the Left are now loudly self-identifying as 'Progressives' as a sort of pious, more pure religious offshoot/sect of the Democrat and

Jess Nevins

jessnevins

Last week I mentioned my thesis on cyberpunk. Yesterday it arrived in the e-mail. Today I’m going to tweet some information from it. This is about old-school cyberpunk (CP hereafter),

Cam

cam_cannon

Revisiting this speech - which really shook me early into my political development - and just trying to reconcile what he says here with the fact he was a member

David Gilbert

DavidGilbert4U

what are the coolest buildings in your state? my votes for colorado: bent's fort, cliff palace, the state capitol, and union station modernist weirdness: charles deaton's wonderfully goofy bank in

Three Geese Radius

shawnmicallef

The hardest working tree in Toronto is back at Cumberland Terrace in a show of resilient festive defiance in the face of darkness. A sentinel of joy. Long live this

Gabriel Parra Blessing

GabeBlessing

Modersohn-Becker died in childbirth, which led Rilke to write one of his most powerful, devastating and angriest poems, "Requiem for a Friend". In it, he denounces, among others, her husband

Karm Sumal

KarmSumal

1/ With over 4 Million Sq Ft of office space under construction/proposed, the False Creek Flats will be unrecognizable in the next 5-10 yrs. A thread on how this area

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