Teaching 19C fictions in English in Thailand. Sherlock Holmes and animals. Tarot cards. Legends. Mythologies. Gothic and Fantasy fictions. Astrology. he/they
Sheffield, England
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In cities like Soweto and Ramallah, limited infrastructure and constrained freedom of movement don’t stop DIY skate communities from thriving. "When it comes down to it," writes Suridh Hassan, "a skatepark can come from virtually anything." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/t…
ALT "The Global Spirit of DIY Skateboarding." From Soweto to Ramallah, DIY skaters are turning scraps into skateparks - and are carving out communities for self-expression. By Suridh Hassan.
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Book cover of the Day: 'Uncanny Tales' by Mrs. Molesworth, art Fred Hyland, 1896.
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"Rivers on the Move," edited by Bathsheba Demuth, Mark A. Healey, Giacomo Parrinello, and Laurence C. Smith, explores the tension between ever-moving rivers and economic, social, and political desires for ecological stability. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/hIKu2VD
ALT Cover of Rivers on the Move: Waterways in Human Life from the Ice Age to the Anthropocene by editors Bathsheba Demuth, Mark A. Healey, Giacomo Parrinello, and Laurence C. Smith. Cover features an aerial, map-like image of a winding blue and white river against a navy background. The river branches off into waterways resembling veins. The title is spaced out across the image in white uppercase and the subtitle is in smaller text at the bottom.
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J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896) — A genre-defying work by the creator of Peter Pan about the pleasures of smoking: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
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Brian P. Copenhaver - The Dawn of Renaissance Magic
And Its Twilight in the Enlightenment
À paraître en juillet aux Harvard UP
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New books this month: A fresh and eye-opening explanation of AI; a collection of futures imagined by writers at the outer limits of science; the stories of America's unsung computing women; and more: mitpress.mit.edu/november-20…
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We have several new titles coming out this November, including Amanda Michelle Reid's "Smaddification," John Peffer's "Private Subjects," and Fredric Jameson's "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism." Make sure to give them a read!
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Leaving Madison and the Annual Conference on South Asian Studies with the urge to read these three stunning books after attending panels with the brilliant authors. Islam in South Asia is a thriving field indeed!
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One of our wonderful new November titles is "Imperial Entanglements" by @stschrader1 and @jgo34. Don't miss it!
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We have many wonderful new titles making their debut in November, including Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió's "Inland Empire" and Doreen Lee's "The Urban Grotesque." Make sure to check them out!
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NOV 1 is the start of Brazil’s Black Consciousness Month, leading to NOV 20, a national holiday honoring Zumbi, leader of Palmares (largest + longest-lasting quilombo =runaway slave community), killed in 1695. For + see my Humans in Shackles & Alencastro’s The Trade of the Living
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New episode! @JoshLMilburn speaks to the philosopher Meera Inglis, who challenges the idea of 'invasive species', which is (she says) scientifically and ethically questionable.
You can listen to the episode free in all the usual podcast places or here: knowinganimals.libsyn.com/ep…
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Book cover of the day 'The Secret of the Court' 1895. In Egypt's deepest subterranean caverns, an esoteric order presides over a kingdom of zombies.....'
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An 18th-century treatise by coffee enthusiast Benjamin Moseley, arguing for the drink's multitude of benefits when it was still relatively new to Europe: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
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"All nations prefer to celebrate themselves rather than acknowledge their darker histories."
Jane Lydon discusses why the legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand have so often been overlooked, and how historical research can help recover stories that have long been absent from public memory.
Read our Q&A with Jane and co-editor Zoë Laidlaw to learn more about the research behind their book 'Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand': manchesteruniversitypress.co…
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"We don’t like disorder and chaos. The philosopher David Hume said, 'Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye.' On the whole, we try to avoid situations where we’re confronted with things we can’t make sense of." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/b…
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YEATS & VAMPIRES The poet W. B. Yeats read about #vampires in Ennemoser's History of Magic 1852. Vampires feature in his poem 'Oil and Blood'
'Under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet' #31DaysOfHalloween
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