Every expression of human mental life can be understood as a kind of language, and this understanding, in the manner of a true method, everywhere raises new questions.
― Walter Benjamin
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Daily Archives: August 14, 2024
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Like sailors in a storm, expecting every instant to go to the bottom, the believers suddenly became religious, prayed violently, and flattered themselves that they repented them of their evil courses. But a plain tale soon put them down, and quenched their religion entirely.
~ Charles MacKay
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Book Recommendation
Attention Factory: The Story
of TikTok and China’s ByteDance
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We must meet violence with nonviolence.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The image of Trump, bloody with a raised fist, is destined to adorn T-shirts, magazine covers, full-page spreads in history books, campaign ads. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that the photo is nearly perfect, one that was captured under extreme duress and that distills the essence of a man in all his contradictions.
~ Tyler Austin Harper via The Atlantic
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We have confused a symptom—educational inequality—with the underlying disease: economic inequality. Schooling may boost the prospects of individual workers, but it doesn’t change the core problem, which is that the bottom 90 percent is divvying up a shrinking share of the national wealth. Fixing that problem will require wealthy people to not merely give more, but take less.
~ Nick Hanauer via The Atlantic
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Learning Object
via Birkbeck UoL
What is Public History?
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Campus Life at the
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
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Professors and rhetoricians find a system for every contingency and a principle for every chance.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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