The historian in question is the wonderful Alexander Demandt, professor emeritus at Freie Universität Berlin (his homepage: www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/instit...).
There's still time to sign up for my Thursday talk. Teaching the Abjad numerals while going on interesting tangents about astrolabes, how Indian numerals changed Arab mathematics, and how disinformation is far older than the internet.
Everything about reading is good. Grégoire Borst, Full Professor of Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience of Education at Université Paris Descartes, speaks to Eve Irvine who, as it happens, is from my home town! www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9hd...
I'm reading Judith Butler's "Antigone's Claim. Kinship Between Life and Death". It's interesting, I like it but somehow I had a wrong idea of it and I think I have to read it again with a bit of distance to truly do it justice. Strange, isn't it, how expectations can hinder understanding.
Wer mal in der Nähe von Jamlitz ist, denen sei der Besuch des Dokumentationsstätte und des Gedenkorts KZ-Außenlager Lieberose nahegelegt. Beklemmend, auch deshalb weil es wie so viele ähnliche Stätten zeigt, alle haben es wissen können. Sie haben es nicht wissen wollen.
... oriental principles of composition: high horizon, flattened space and asymmetry. The generalised handling of the landscape and the use of thin paint anticipate his first nocturnes."
"Whistler spent six months in Chile in 1866 at the time of a brief confrontation between Chile and Spain. (...) His extended stay led to important breakthroughs in his art. This painting and its related Valparaiso views are the first in which Whistler incorporated ...
We published the open access paper “Genocidal Surveillant Assemblage in Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis,” by Mais Qandeel and Özgün Erdener Topak, as part of the forum “Gaza: International Humanitarian Law and Genocide,” on October 8, 2025. tinyurl.com/mr3272ut
When a giraffe arrived at the Ming(1368–1644) court after Zheng He’s first voyage, Emperor Zhu Di saw not an exotic beast but the long-dreamed Qilin, a herald of peace and prosperity in Chinese mythology. The reticulated Somali giraffe, with its towering neck and patterned hide, 1/2
I just learned that opinion pieces generally aren't fact-checked in Ger. newspapers, especially when written by non-journalists. I wish I had known that earlier!
Apparently, it's similar in Anglophone newspapers as ...
Es ist leider so, dass kaum ein Medium Meinungsbeiträge factcheckt - und in diesem Fall ist auch klar, dass die Autoren keine Journalisten sind. Trotzdem ärgerlich.
Das ist dann wohl der "Vorteil" von Meinungsbeiträgen. D.h. da kann jemand einfach schreiben, was er will, solange es der Redaktion gefällt, auch wenn es - leicht überprüfbar - inhaltlich nicht stimmt. Das sind ja dann völlig wertlose Beiträge, warum sollte das jemand lesen?!
Oh I couldn't live without some form of Social Media any more! I "discover" so much here, just thanked Shiva Balaghi because I think I know Hyperallergic because of her. It starts to resemble the other site in a positive way where everyone shared what they love.
