Islamicate historian w/@open_iti, Orthodox Christian, dad, agroecologist, upholder of Gustav Landauer thought 🌻
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New essay out today on the long deep history of subjectivity, technologies of communication and of the self, and the surprising loop-backs of our world of digital lives and AI agents into that of the Paleolithic, link below:
I don't actually know whether there is more than a marginal chance that the United States is going to use a nuclear weapon against Iran but the fact that it is not outside the realm of possibility right now makes me feel sick to my stomach
Back in the day scholars would just be like "I didn't like or understand some chunks of this text so I just chunked them from my translation" and everyone was cool with it
You Can Print Everything, from "A specimen of the several sorts of letter given to the University by Dr. John Fell, : sometime Lord Bishop of Oxford"
The opening page to a 13th or 14th century Psalter in- from left to right- Ge'ez, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, and Armenian, presumably produced in a Syriac milieu (Vatican Barb.or.2):
Thing was still smoking this morning, we were headed up to church when we saw the smoke and for a bit I was worried something near downtown was on fire then I remembered Chattanooga Burning Man was last night lol
Racism is first and foremost an evil against one's neighbor, but it's also a type of self-harm, a vulgar denigration of the spirit, an internal hollowing out the effects of which upon the racist are truly pathetic
Most depressing but also least surprising aspect of today's Gospel reading (the story of Lazarus and the rich man) is the (unnamed) rich man recognizing Lazarus and knowing his name but only because suddenly he found the poor man formerly at his gate potentially useful to himself
Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹 retweeted
Abdul Sayed has never supported Islamism or advocated for any kind of violence.
But here’s Eli Lake wearing a tshirt of Menachem Begin who led a Zionist militant group that bombed the King David Hotel, killing almost one hundred people.
Making apple cider, eat a potluck meal with stuff from the garden, feeding the pigs, watching the steam train roll by- you can still do all this stuff folks you just have to put a little work into it
It's fun to think about how if instead of devoting vast resources and human intelligence to the most dystopian life-negating shit imaginable we had spent the capital of industrial modernity on building socially vibrant life-affirming worlds centered on human dignity and value
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The miniatures in the 1180 Coptic Gospel BnF Copte 13 must surely rank among the loveliest and most charming in all medieval art yet my sense is they're barely known even among scholars of the period; here are a couple water-centric examples:
Here is Christ being arrested, with Arabic captions and, following a practice common in Islamicate book culture, Judas' face has been deliberately defaced:
