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András Kiséry

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early modernist and book historian, curious about shorthand, epigraphy, catalogs and other media. also sociology of cold war translations, history of media studies, … and Uwe Johnson.

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Letter Opposing the Closing of DPAM

If you’re as incensed as everyone at DePaul is about the closing of the university art museum, consider signing this letter. Thanks for the support! openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

01.03.2026 20:16 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Perspectives on Cultural History — CEU Press Author Hub

Delighted to announce this new book series, "Perspectives on Cultural History," with CEU for Amsterdam University Press. For more information, see here. Proposals should be sent to the commissioning editor.

www.ceupressauthorhub.com/perspectives...

24.02.2026 18:47 👍 23 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Hornschuch's Orthotypographia : Hornschuch, Hieronymus, 1573-1616 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive v, xvi, 45, 45 p. : 20 cm

Could not find a digital surrogate of the 1608, but archive.org/details/hornschuchsortho0000horn has pdf of the 1972 facsimile, and the woodcut is there.

23.02.2026 14:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The Latin ed was published in facsimile with English translation in the 1970s.
The 1608 has the same woodcut—I must have seen it before as an illustration. It looks 16th c., 1634 just felt too late a date, but that was if course based on nothing.

23.02.2026 14:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here’s what I found: The 1634 edition seems to be the first German translation of the book; the Latin seems to have been first published in 1608, also in Leipzig. The Latin ed does not seem to include Kramer’s treatise (pp 51ff in 1634).

23.02.2026 14:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is a great image—is it not based on a 16th century one? Or re-using an old block? I seem to recall having seen it before.

23.02.2026 14:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Data, Discoverability, and Translation in the UK and Irish Book Markets – Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture An article from Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, on Érudit.

It's a fantastic resource. Consulted the Scandinavian Noir dataset to help piece together some missing data recently www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

17.02.2026 21:03 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Of course. (The sentence isn’t so small, either btw.) But there is a difference between the story of what we mean by a book (or work) and “the history of the book” as a discipline.

16.02.2026 17:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

because that’s been written too…? How about going Chapter 4: The Work?

16.02.2026 16:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI.

AI does three main things:

1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive

2) transfer wealth upwards

3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

16.02.2026 14:30 👍 378 🔁 149 💬 1 📌 5

@spoerhase.bsky.social co-wrote a big one on scholarship and academic labor which works a bit differently—Latour rather than Bourdieu.

16.02.2026 16:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

because that’s been written too…? How about going Chapter 4: The Work?

16.02.2026 16:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I am inviting ghost writers. Better?

16.02.2026 16:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Too bad there is a good book on it. Still.

16.02.2026 16:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Actually, chapter 3: THE CHAPTER,

16.02.2026 16:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Right—although it narrows it down to argumentative writing, whereas sentence and paragraph work across genres. But some way of thinking abt creating larger structures.

16.02.2026 16:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The history of the paragraph. That should be chapter 2. Chapter 1 is the history of the sentence. Another one with wildly unexpected episodes. (If you ever thought the problem with 17th c sentences is just punctuation, think again.) Chapter 3…? Those two should be enough.

16.02.2026 16:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Not to mention other languages where may not even be a word for it.

16.02.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is fascinating! I loved learning more about how Cold War ideology shaped high school English. It's also interesting how divorced high school English is from college English and the literary profession. Definitely going to check out this book when it is published.

15.02.2026 19:13 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

the actual condition of the “diffusion of humanistic knowledge”

15.02.2026 22:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Beware of ‘anti-woke’ liberals: they attacked the left and helped Trump win | Jan-Werner Müller So-called ‘reactionary centrist’ pundits proclaimed that there was a global ‘vibe shift’ in favor of the right. They were wrong

Great intervention by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on reactionary centrism, anti-wokeness, and the tendency to interpret the success of the right as backlash instead of as its own political project

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

03.02.2026 16:07 👍 61 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 5
A screenshot showing a blue library with the words blue: the tatter textile library

A screenshot showing a blue library with the words blue: the tatter textile library

I did not know about this!: “BLUE (in Gowanus) is an ever-growing home to 6,000 books, journals, exhibition catalogs and objects that examine and celebrate the global history, traditions, makers, craft and beauty of textiles.” tatter.org/blue-library/

01.01.2024 16:10 👍 58 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 4

Thanks. Photos are what they are but the binding scheme matches what I saw. My original question was very broad and general, but at least some of the other bound volumes also follow this pattern. I wonder if there are alternative options.

05.02.2026 22:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Shakespeare was actually a black Jewish woman, new book claims Feminist historian identifies Tudor poet Emilia Bassano as true author whose identity was hidden by literary establishment

Since Emilia Bassano was busy writing the works attributed to the Stratford man, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum must be the work of Edward DeVere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

28.01.2026 13:21 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0

I would put it differently: almost always no implies human level writing…

05.02.2026 13:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually ...

"a great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually anything else currently on offer in the US" thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

04.02.2026 22:25 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Paper size differences that create “sections”

Paper size differences that create “sections”

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03.02.2026 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
four pics of the stitches.

four pics of the stitches.

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03.02.2026 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
binding and endpapers (no watermark on flyleaf, just chainlinks etc.

binding and endpapers (no watermark on flyleaf, just chainlinks etc.

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Not just short—sometimes too long and folded back.

03.02.2026 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So I have looked a bit more closely at another one of these, with a more exposed 18th c looking binding. I think it is whipstitch as @aarontpratt.bsky.social was suggesting as an option. And re: the question abt those sections by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social , those are def due to uneven paper size.

03.02.2026 16:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0