A few hours before the U.S.-Israeli bombs started hitting Iran, I posted a new essay on why we have so few monuments to peace and why it is so hard to sustain peace movements. Let's fix that.
With shout-out to @wingedisis.bsky.social and Monument Lab
(link in bio, free subscribers welcome)
Looks like we're going to have to go back to that chaining-yourself-to-a-tree thing. But I guess we should try the comments section first
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Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.
Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”
Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.
Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.
Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.
Buddo! My favorite ancient enby sculpture.
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Snowflakes all the way down...
Oh! will have to check it out.
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation by Charlotte Beradt
Next week, March 3rd at 2:00 pm EST, the Museum of Jewish Heritage hosts a free, virtual event with Amanda Rubin on The Third Reich of Dreams, Charlotte Beradt's archive of the dreams of Berliners living under the Nazi regime, now republished in a haunting new translation.
Register: buff.ly/J9dhRlk
More dystopia for your feed
The nature of the archaeological record varies according to gravity: looking at orbital 'stratigraphy' as a dynamical system. 🧪 🏺 #SpaceArchaeology
Do Aliens Eat Pickles?
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And what does this have to do with archive of human knowledge in the Arctic? (free subscribers appreciated).
Saw this IRL at the Laténium a couple of days ago, absolutely stunning.
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
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Last winter and spring, I took a journey deep into an imagined future with artist @auntiemojo.bsky.social and an amazing group of students at Johns Hopkins University. Here's a glimpse of the future river culture we conjured together at the Peale Museum in Baltimore.
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The Florida Reich has just made feminism and critical race studies hot as hell.
Nothing feeds a rebellion like telling a bunch of teenagers what they can't do.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:
How dumplings spread around the world
(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)
They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.
How do we rehabilitate utopian thinking and plant positive seeds for future generations?
Please join us at the first virtual salon of The Future Cafe on Feb 26 @ 8:00 pm EST. Registration below.
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When all the female grad students tell you a candidate seems arrogant & smarmy & they don’t like him, but it’s all vibes, maybe hire one of the other candidates who are just as amazing researchers, but don’t give off bad vibes. Cuz in my experience those vibes have proven right 100% of the time.
A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts
New short essay on the history of peace movements and symbols (an archaeology of our times). Free subscribers welcome. #anthropology/archaeology @academicblue.bsky.social
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Joan Scott on why the attack on gender studies by powerful patriarchal men is not a coincidence, but an attempt to silence critique and analysis of their abusive behavior. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
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Do you know the source of the original post (or was it you?). It looks like a Substack template.
