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Eric Brandom

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Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · Feb 22

"the common ruin of the contending classes"

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 9h

Well you know, that's what a kiss is. With some people.

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 9h

Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 9h

"Melting with lust and dismay, he laid his hands on her upper arms"

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 10h

When you read too much biology and have a dream about life (sexy)

The books lay piled high on the table with the lamp, but one was on the floor mat next to his lounge chair and another, the one Hans Castorp had last been reading, lay across his stomach, its weight making it very difficult for him to breathe, although his cerebral cortex had sent no order to the appropriate muscles to remove it. He had read to the bottom of the page, until his chin rested on his chest and his eyelids fell over his ordinary blue eyes. He beheld the image of life, its voluptuous limbs, its flesh-borne beauty. She had loosened her hands from the back of her neck, and her arms-she spread them wide now, revealing the inner surface, especially the tender skin at the elbow with its blood vessels, two large bluish branching veins-her arms were of inexpressible sweetness. She bent toward him, bent down to him, over him, he sensed her organic aroma, sensed the lacelike pounding of her heart. He felt an embrace, hot and tender, around his neck. Melting with lust and dismay, he laid his hands on her upper arms, there where her grainy skin stretched taut over the triceps and was blissfully cool to the touch. He felt the moist suckle of her kiss on his lips.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 9h

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 10h

This is a real dream that a real character in a novel had

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 10h

When you read too much biology and have a dream about life (sexy)

The books lay piled high on the table with the lamp, but one was on the floor mat next to his lounge chair and another, the one Hans Castorp had last been reading, lay across his stomach, its weight making it very difficult for him to breathe, although his cerebral cortex had sent no order to the appropriate muscles to remove it. He had read to the bottom of the page, until his chin rested on his chest and his eyelids fell over his ordinary blue eyes. He beheld the image of life, its voluptuous limbs, its flesh-borne beauty. She had loosened her hands from the back of her neck, and her arms-she spread them wide now, revealing the inner surface, especially the tender skin at the elbow with its blood vessels, two large bluish branching veins-her arms were of inexpressible sweetness. She bent toward him, bent down to him, over him, he sensed her organic aroma, sensed the lacelike pounding of her heart. He felt an embrace, hot and tender, around his neck. Melting with lust and dismay, he laid his hands on her upper arms, there where her grainy skin stretched taut over the triceps and was blissfully cool to the touch. He felt the moist suckle of her kiss on his lips.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 10h

Ok I am sold Absalom next

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 10h

When you read too much biology and have a dream about life (sexy)

The books lay piled high on the table with the lamp, but one was on the floor mat next to his lounge chair and another, the one Hans Castorp had last been reading, lay across his stomach, its weight making it very difficult for him to breathe, although his cerebral cortex had sent no order to the appropriate muscles to remove it. He had read to the bottom of the page, until his chin rested on his chest and his eyelids fell over his ordinary blue eyes. He beheld the image of life, its voluptuous limbs, its flesh-borne beauty. She had loosened her hands from the back of her neck, and her arms-she spread them wide now, revealing the inner surface, especially the tender skin at the elbow with its blood vessels, two large bluish branching veins-her arms were of inexpressible sweetness. She bent toward him, bent down to him, over him, he sensed her organic aroma, sensed the lacelike pounding of her heart. He felt an embrace, hot and tender, around his neck. Melting with lust and dismay, he laid his hands on her upper arms, there where her grainy skin stretched taut over the triceps and was blissfully cool to the touch. He felt the moist suckle of her kiss on his lips.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 10h

Ok so Absolom it is???

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 14h

Also, Joyce likes women and Faulkner hates us.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 11h

I have read even less Faulkner than Joyce

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 11h

The thing is I think there really is a fundamental disagreement about whether Marx was doing this (Kant) or Hegel.

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Kansas History @kshistoryjournal.bsky.social · 11h

We publish academic articles of around 9,000 words on the history and culture of Kansas and the Great Plains. We are quarterly, peer reviewed, and eager to see your submissions!

Here’s the link with our guidelines: www.kansashistory.gov/p/kansas-his...

a line drawing of an envelope with a cloud behind it .

Alt: A line drawing of an envelope with a cloud behind it .

media.tenor.com

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 11h

Critique of Commercial Reason

Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 23h

Nordstrom Rack at the mountains of madness

A gently glowing blue sign on the wall of a department store reads “prices below reason”

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 11h

Wait to keep or to throw out?

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 11h

[pulling at my collar because I haven't read much of either]

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14h

Pick one! Once and for all!

Joyce
Faulkner

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 13h

Going to admit that the muppet movie I've seen in the last two decades is Christmas Carol.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 14h

People are neither responsible nor smart enough to drive a car, have friends, or vote.

Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 14h

“If one of your five closest friends is an AI companion that is a great sounding board and a great therapist or coach, and everyone has that, I think that will raise the emotional intelligence of most people and really smooth out the variance in people,” Schiffmann said.

The guy behind those ‘Friend’ ads in the subways is tired of talking to New Yorkers

New Yorkers are taking note and even scribbling their own graffiti on the ads. Avi Schiffmann, 22, says that's the point — but doesn't feel like talking to them.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 14h

"Someone brings you your midday soup, the same soup they brought you yesterday and will bring again tomorrow. And in that moment it comes over you-you don't know why or how, but you feel dizzy watching them bring in the soup. The tenses of verbs become confused, they blend and what is now revealed to you as the true tense of all existence is the "inelastic present," the tense in which they bring you soup for all eternity. But one can't speak of boredom, because boredom comes with the passing of time-and that would be a paradox in relation to eternity. And we want to avoid paradoxes, particularly if we are to live with our hero."

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 15h

If no one responds I am going to assume all I need to do is reread Christopher Hill (which I am happy to do)

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 18h

I am looking for recommendations for recent scholarship about the English Civil War from a literary historical perspective, what have you got? Realizing that both my knowledge and confidence in that knowledge crater c. 1640.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 15h

My strong sense is that the long scene with the hills in the road toward the end of One Battle After Another is a citation of some other film, but I have no idea which one.

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 3d

Le Puy du Fou, the French historical (re?)enactment entertainment park that is aiming to open a new branch near Oxford, has a somewhat divisive background in reactionary French politics. A very topical #frenchpodcast. #Frhistory www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Le Puy du Fou : visiter et revisiter l’Histoire

Aujourd’hui dans Affaires Sensibles, le Puy-du-Fou : visiter et revisiter l’Histoire

www.radiofrance.fr

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 1d

There are few things that make me happier than the fact that William James’ house looks like this at Halloween.

Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 1d

i remember enjoying the next two books in that becky chambers series -- although the second one is quite different.

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 1d

»Solange es Geschichte gibt, wird es Historie geben.«
~ Reinhart Koselleck

« L’Histoire est entièrement vraie, puisque je l’ai imaginée d’un bout à l’autre. »
~ Boris Vian

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