#Contemporary

Safiya z ⵣ

safifesse

Some of my favorite North-African painters, a ThreadRamhani Abdelilah, a contemporary Moroccan artist from Tangiers whose subjects of choice are traditional costumes (including these intricately decorated caftans) and traditional objects

John MacDonald

1johnmacdonald

SCOTLAND IN THE WORLD: Thread on this UnHerd piece by Henry Hill, which criticises the SNP for 'doing things' beyond the UK, thus making the UK Government 'look bad'. 1/7https://twitter.com/unherd/status/1346528160368750593

EaldWeald

EaldWeald

Contemporary Left in the West is banking on the rising Islam & Marxist coalitionPerfect time in the West for a Puritanical Reform mvmt, which is what this is (or simulacrum

J. Moufawad-Paul

MLM_Mayhem

Reading the recent English translation of Mbembe's *Politiques de l'inimitié* because my French was not good enough to really process the 2016 French version, due to Mbembe's lyricism and theoretical

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

daniel_dsj2110

A few passages that didn’t make it in to the recent pieces I wrote for the Chronicle:https://www.chronicle.com/article/beyond-the-end-of-history 1) If historians can say nothing about how history can enhance human life

Steve Locke

steve_locke

Maybe treat Black Americans like citizens that have a 300+ year relationship with their country and you wouldn’t be asking us to help you “diversify” your curriculum or “decolonize” your

miss veryvery

missveryvery

The Hades and Persephone myth we know is just one variation of it. You could argue there's a proto version with the lady abducting the dude. People influenced by religions

Netanel Zellis-Paley

wordpaley

Gut vokh! In honor of my 613th follower (the number of commandments in the Torah): one like, one phenomenological/theological opinion (no politics, I promise bli neder!). For each one that

sarah HANNAH gómez

shgmclicious

Jewish writers/editors/book people (pun not intended), can we talk about how it's becoming more and more of a stretch in the credibility department to write contemporary fiction about younger children

Scott Lemieux

LemieuxLGM

Comrade Hawley continues to focus on the material needs of the working class by [checks notes] defending symbolic support for treason in defense of slavery and lawlessness in defense of

inti figgis-vizueta

inticomposes

non-Black friends — if this summer and year has opened your eyes to the on-going histories of state-sponsored anti-Black violence, I encourage you to continue to dig deeper into how

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selgowiros

U̯irotutis icon. Explanation in thread. Establishing anything in a Gaulish language is difficult. There are usually 3 suggestions of what a name or theonym could actually mean, what functions it

George Demacopoulos

GDemacopoulos

Today is the feast of St. Gregory the Theologian (Nazianzen) in the Orthodox Church. A short thread on one of my favorite Church Fathers. Perhaps, the reason that I appreciate

Josh Jackson

JoshuaYJackson

I have just read Xi Jinping’s new article on Marxist Politcial Economy, the text represents an excellent work of contemporary marxist analysis and provides useful insights into both China and

#DesertCityBlue

Torp3doBad

A THREAD on Botswana contemporary music starting from the mid-90s. I'll start with Skizo, one of the 1st to have heavy rotation in & out of Botswana.This legendary Producer &

E.V. Starling

starlitstudy

Thread | A little bit on the HISTORY of western astrology. How far back the tradition goes, why we don't have one consistent practice, why Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and

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