#Contemporary

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[QT: OHIO, ALLAHABAD, AIRMAIL]1/54For some fun but unrelated background, we'll start with America. The year is 1910, seven years since Orville Wright's first flight into aviation history.By now, flying is

SURJchicago

SURJchicago

There’s still time to RSVP to the virtual event to #SaveTheHamptonHouse, featuring Akua Njeri & Fred Hampton Jr. The goal is to buy back Fred Hampton’s childhood home & turn

Dr Matthew Ford

warmatters

So here's my second thread of the week, this time on what I call the origins of the Mad Minute.This is going to draw together the technology, the user &

W. Todd Kaneko

ToddKaneko

I’ve loved reading the threads I’ve seen collecting black poets, writers, activists, and artists. In that vein, here’s a non-exhaustive thread of important and influential black people in pro wrestling.

Eddie Du

Edourdoo

Wise words from Maugham Snarky notes. “The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.” Maugham on Christianity and humanity While readers loved Maugham's Far Eastern tales

Paul Dalgarno

PaulDalgarno

Just a reminder that the median annual income for authors in Australia is less than $3K and our bookshops are struggling to survive, even more than usual. If you can,

Jais Adam-Troian

JaisTroian

Vu l’actualité, faisons le point des connaissances scientifiques sur les violences policières, et particulièrement en contexte de manifestation. Avant de commencer je précise que le terme de violence policière est

Allan

allan_cheapshot

JR once farted in a car with Gerald Brisco, which made Brisco start gagging and throwing up. Vince heard about that, so backstage at RAW one night, he tried to

David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh

DavidAstinWalsh

h/t to @RhetoricPJ for the heads-up about this interview with Hillsdale College's president about American history, because it's a doozy. Shall we dive in?https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/15/pilgrims-totalitarians-and-babies-a-conv

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

(THREAD)—‘DEGROWTH’—its, definition, its history, Common misunderstandings & slanders, its compatibility with other schools, & a specific point about the nature of consumption, ‘services’, growth, capitalist metrics. I

Dr. Mariela Alfonzo

CityFoodLover

Ok, so I promised a holiday gift thread last week but 3 deadlines turns out to be a LOT for 1 week. So, without further ado, I present to you

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

Okay, I promised a quick introduction to the history of the terms 'metaphysics' and 'ontology', so I'll try to provide it in as concise a way as possible. However, this

Goldstein

MrGoldstein7

Wikipedia is all but admitting what our historians do gymnastics to avoid admitting: Sea Peoples = Phoenicians. We can ignore “Illyrians” and “Tyrrhenians,” which are just poorly devised synonyms for

a raconteur of repute

JohannesTEvans

thinking about a young woman coming to look through her inheritance after her estranged father diesher father's secretary who quietly says he'll assist her to catalogue his things and it

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

Coming back to Fanon’s “Racism and Culture” today. Easily one of the most incisive and insightful modern essays on the intimate interconnections between colonialism, racial oppression, economic exploitation and forms

Abayorr Mi

iamabayorr

The Butcher of Congo: King Leopold II of Belgium, regarded mostly as the cruelest man in historyA THREAD King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the deaths and mutilation

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