Jeffrey Schnapp
@jaytiesse.bsky.social
founder@metaLABharvard, co-director@BKCHarvard, CVO@P_F_F, cultural historian, curator, knowledge designer, biker & scooterologist - https://jeffreyschnapp.com/
New post on an important project for building archives of contemporary social movements being undertaken by Fondazione Feltrinelli
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Archives of the Present | Jeffrey Schnapp
Last year, the Milan-based Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, on whose advisory board I serve, launched its important Archives of the Present project which sets out to collect and preserve documentat...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
New post on an important project for building archives of contemporary social movements being undertaken by Fondazione Feltrinelli
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The genuine capitals of violent crime in the US; of course, if you don't read books or believe experts, none of this matters.
September 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The genuine capitals of violent crime in the US; of course, if you don't read books or believe experts, none of this matters.
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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September 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Coming up on Friday, Sept. 12 @ 8 pm at Salotto (84 Withers Street, Brooklyn, NY) a conversation with David Reinfurt and Jason Fulford on the occasion of the publication of the English edition of Design and Visual Communication.
September 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Coming up on Friday, Sept. 12 @ 8 pm at Salotto (84 Withers Street, Brooklyn, NY) a conversation with David Reinfurt and Jason Fulford on the occasion of the publication of the English edition of Design and Visual Communication.
Coming very soon (English translation + critical apparatus and introductory essay on Munari's visiting professorship at Harvard)
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Design and Visual Communication
Bruno Munari 5.375 × 8.25 inches, 400 pages, softcover ISBN 978-1-941753-71-2 Design by IN-FO.CO Available for Pre-order Shipping October 2025...
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August 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Coming very soon (English translation + critical apparatus and introductory essay on Munari's visiting professorship at Harvard)
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Winner of the 2025 edition of the Premio di saggistica "Città delle rose" (autori stranieri); honored to be in the company of Alberto Manguel, Marc Augé, Michail Chodorkovskji, Edgar Morin, and Tzvetan Todorov, among others.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Winner of the 2025 edition of the Premio di saggistica "Città delle rose" (autori stranieri); honored to be in the company of Alberto Manguel, Marc Augé, Michail Chodorkovskji, Edgar Morin, and Tzvetan Todorov, among others.
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Reposted by Jeffrey Schnapp
The 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 | 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙪𝙢, co-hosted by #BarabasiLab and #metaLAB, gathered a community exploring data as both material and meaning. As @kimay.bsky.social put it: “We design data, & data designs us.” A timely and necessary conversation. 🧮 bit.ly/4eoUPoa
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June 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 | 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙪𝙢, co-hosted by #BarabasiLab and #metaLAB, gathered a community exploring data as both material and meaning. As @kimay.bsky.social put it: “We design data, & data designs us.” A timely and necessary conversation. 🧮 bit.ly/4eoUPoa
@barabasi.bsky.social @jaytiesse.bsky.social
@barabasi.bsky.social @jaytiesse.bsky.social
Historical Performances of Vingegaard and Pogačar on Mont Ventoux | Tour de France 2025 Stage 16 lanternerouge.com/2025/07/22/h... via @LanterneRougeYT -- 54 minutes to the top of Mount Ventoux (if you've ever climbed it you know just how amazing this is).
Historical Performances of Vingegaard and Pogačar on Mont Ventoux | Tour de France 2025 Stage 16 - Lanterne Rouge
With a flat stage before Mont Ventoux, it was expected to have some fireworks and huge climbing performances…
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July 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Historical Performances of Vingegaard and Pogačar on Mont Ventoux | Tour de France 2025 Stage 16 lanternerouge.com/2025/07/22/h... via @LanterneRougeYT -- 54 minutes to the top of Mount Ventoux (if you've ever climbed it you know just how amazing this is).
From our event from last week
The 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 | 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙪𝙢, co-hosted by #BarabasiLab and #metaLAB, gathered a community exploring data as both material and meaning. As @kimay.bsky.social put it: “We design data, & data designs us.” A timely and necessary conversation. 🧮 bit.ly/4eoUPoa
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@barabasi.bsky.social @jaytiesse.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
From our event from last week
A belated best-seller well suited for the times: Sebastian Haffner’s Abschied
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Unknown novel by writer who charted Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller
Sebastian Haffner’s love story set in final days of Weimar Republic published more than nine decades after it was written
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June 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A belated best-seller well suited for the times: Sebastian Haffner’s Abschied
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers 19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu... via @19thnews.org
Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers
The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.
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June 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers 19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu... via @19thnews.org
The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King.
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The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King.
Don't let this happen
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May 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King.
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Time to draft up a new Magna Carta for Harvard's host nation (given the assault on constitutional law that is underway).
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In Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta
At a moment when Harvard is battling the Trump administration, a scholar who helped discover the charter said it was an “almost providential” find.
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May 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Time to draft up a new Magna Carta for Harvard's host nation (given the assault on constitutional law that is underway).
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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An excellent piece by Anil Seth on why sentience and consciousness should be marginal at best in future of AI conversations.
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The illusion of conscious AI
Neuroscientist Anil Seth explains why people often overestimate how likely it is that AI will become conscious.
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May 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
An excellent piece by Anil Seth on why sentience and consciousness should be marginal at best in future of AI conversations.
bigthink.com/neuropsych/t...
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sprinting out of the gate today...
May 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
sprinting out of the gate today...
Some fresh print. The concluding book in the metaLABprojects series at MIT Press. A thoughtful journey into humanistic and humane knowledge and how it can be engaged to help us collaboratively respond in ethical and sustainable ways to global challenges
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May 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Some fresh print. The concluding book in the metaLABprojects series at MIT Press. A thoughtful journey into humanistic and humane knowledge and how it can be engaged to help us collaboratively respond in ethical and sustainable ways to global challenges
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254212...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254212...
Well deserved.
ProPublica wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category
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ProPublica wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category
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May 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Well deserved.
ProPublica wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category
www.pulitzer.org/winners/22659
ProPublica wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category
www.pulitzer.org/winners/22659
May 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Welcome to North Korea.
From the NEH website: the agency is looking for statues of “famous American statesmen, visionaries, and innovators” on a Trump-authored list of 250 individuals inc. Antonin Scalia, Samuel Colt, Vince Lombardi, and Helen Keller.
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From the NEH website: the agency is looking for statues of “famous American statesmen, visionaries, and innovators” on a Trump-authored list of 250 individuals inc. Antonin Scalia, Samuel Colt, Vince Lombardi, and Helen Keller.
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NEH Calls for Proposals for Trump’s Bizarre Sculpture Garden
After slashing hundreds of grants for cultural institutions, the agency is opening applications for the president’s widely questioned “National Garden of American Heroes.”
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April 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Welcome to North Korea.
From the NEH website: the agency is looking for statues of “famous American statesmen, visionaries, and innovators” on a Trump-authored list of 250 individuals inc. Antonin Scalia, Samuel Colt, Vince Lombardi, and Helen Keller.
hyperallergic.com/1006550/neh-...
From the NEH website: the agency is looking for statues of “famous American statesmen, visionaries, and innovators” on a Trump-authored list of 250 individuals inc. Antonin Scalia, Samuel Colt, Vince Lombardi, and Helen Keller.
hyperallergic.com/1006550/neh-...
World’s largest bleaching event on record has harmed 84 percent of coral reefs
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World’s largest bleaching event on record has harmed 84 percent of coral reefs
Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on it for survival.
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April 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
World’s largest bleaching event on record has harmed 84 percent of coral reefs
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