John Raimo
@johnraimo.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe (PhD., NYU). DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Mostly history, literature, & arts here; desperately trying not to post political content yet here we are now.
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John Raimo
@johnraimo.bsky.social
· Feb 27
1/3 Brief reintroduction for Bluesky. I’m a professional historian mostly focused on postwar Europe, cultural & intellectual history, the history of the book, reading and publishing just now in German, French, Italian, and Czech contexts. Also keenly interested in political history, visual arts ...
Bravo, Drew (@drewflanaganphd.bsky.social); really looking forward to reading this soon! #skystorians
I've got a book coming out in April (available for preorder) on the civilizing mission of France in post-WWII Germany and its links to the emergence of European unity. Check it out!
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November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Bravo, Drew (@drewflanaganphd.bsky.social); really looking forward to reading this soon! #skystorians
Paul Bernard-Nouraud, La pratique des images chez Gerhard Richter (En attendant Nadeau ; #arthistory) : www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/11/22/g...
La pratique des images chez Gerhard Richter - En attendant Nadeau
Bien entendu, l’exposition que la Fondation Louis-Vuitton consacre à l’œuvre de Gerhard Richter est somptueuse.
www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Paul Bernard-Nouraud, La pratique des images chez Gerhard Richter (En attendant Nadeau ; #arthistory) : www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/11/22/g...
Max Bill's covers of the Swiss anti-fascist journal Information: Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Erziehung, Technik, Kunst (1932-1933; Merrill C. Berman Collection; #skystorians): mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Max Bill's covers of the Swiss anti-fascist journal Information: Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Erziehung, Technik, Kunst (1932-1933; Merrill C. Berman Collection; #skystorians): mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...
Sergio Aquindo, À propos du travail de John Tenniel sur Alice (En attendant Nadeau) : www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/11/25/a...
À propos du travail de John Tenniel sur Alice - En attendant Nadeau
Sergio Aquindo, dessinateur, graveur et écrivain, examine la part essentielle prise par les images de John Tenniel dans l’œuvre de Lewis Carroll.
www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Sergio Aquindo, À propos du travail de John Tenniel sur Alice (En attendant Nadeau) : www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/11/25/a...
Tatiana Agliani et Uliano Lucas, Quand la photographie est politique (Éditions Mimésis, 2025; #skystorians, #photography): www.editionsmimesis.fr/catalogue/qu...
Quand la photographie est politique - Éditions Mimésis
Le bouillonnement culturel de Milan dans les années soixante, les premières prises de vue pour Il Mondo, les images emblématiques des émeutes des années soixante-dix, les reportages dans les usines, s...
www.editionsmimesis.fr
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Tatiana Agliani et Uliano Lucas, Quand la photographie est politique (Éditions Mimésis, 2025; #skystorians, #photography): www.editionsmimesis.fr/catalogue/qu...
Gioele Cristofari, L’altra collina: Cesare Pavese tra Reaglie e Pino (Edizioni SEB27, 2025; #skystorians) www.seb27.it/content/lalt...
L'altra collina - Seb27
DISPONIBILE SUBITO QUI, IN LIBRERIA DAL 12 DICEMBRE 2025 Nato per accidente a Santo Stefano Belbo, e spesso ridotto dai suoi critici a scrittore langarolo perso in un suo immaginario Middle-West di pr...
www.seb27.it
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Gioele Cristofari, L’altra collina: Cesare Pavese tra Reaglie e Pino (Edizioni SEB27, 2025; #skystorians) www.seb27.it/content/lalt...
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
Dec. 3rd round table (also online) with Simone Brioni, Amy King (@amycking.bsky.social), and John Foot (@footymac.bsky.social): Neofascism and the Memory of Italy’s Years of Lead (@ihr.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Roundtable: Neofascism and the Memory of Italy’s Years of Lead
www.history.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Dec. 3rd round table (also online) with Simone Brioni, Amy King (@amycking.bsky.social), and John Foot (@footymac.bsky.social): Neofascism and the Memory of Italy’s Years of Lead (@ihr.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Happy to announce the CfP for the 2027 Hermann Weber Conference, "Communist Regimes and the World Economy Since the 1970s" (Apr. 22-23, 2027), supported by the Gerda-und-Hermann-Weber-Stiftung in the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/de/stiftung/...
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Happy to announce the CfP for the 2027 Hermann Weber Conference, "Communist Regimes and the World Economy Since the 1970s" (Apr. 22-23, 2027), supported by the Gerda-und-Hermann-Weber-Stiftung in the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/de/stiftung/...
Sarah Bochicchio, Postcards from Virginia Woolf (@parisreview.bsky.social; #skystorians): www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...
Postcards from Virginia Woolf by Sarah Bochicchio
November 7, 2025 – "Woolf likely imagined these cards would end up in a garbage can or, at best, someone’s attic."
www.theparisreview.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Sarah Bochicchio, Postcards from Virginia Woolf (@parisreview.bsky.social; #skystorians): www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...
Eugène Delacroix, Questions on the Beautiful (trans. Alice Gribbin and Blake Bartlett; Notes of an Aesthete; #skystorians): www.alicegribbin.com/p/delacroix-...
Questions on the Beautiful
By Eugène Delacroix, the first and last painter, now in English
www.alicegribbin.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Eugène Delacroix, Questions on the Beautiful (trans. Alice Gribbin and Blake Bartlett; Notes of an Aesthete; #skystorians): www.alicegribbin.com/p/delacroix-...
Patricia Albers, Everything is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész (Other Press, 2026; #skystorians, #photography): otherpress.com/product/ever...
Everything Is Photograph
The first full biography of the innovative “father of modern photography” vividly depicts his life and works, from Hungary to France and America, across the 20th century. Born in Budapest ...
otherpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Patricia Albers, Everything is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész (Other Press, 2026; #skystorians, #photography): otherpress.com/product/ever...
W. David Marx (@wdavidmarx.bsky.social), Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians). www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769187...
Blank Space by W. David Marx: 9780593833995 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A People Best Book of November 2025 · An NPR Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025 A revealing exploration of a quarter century...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
W. David Marx (@wdavidmarx.bsky.social), Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians). www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769187...
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#SundayReads: A. D. Manns on the speculative origins of Aradia, "the Gospel of the Witches"... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-lister-aradia/
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#SundayReads: A. D. Manns on the speculative origins of Aradia, "the Gospel of the Witches"... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-lister-aradia/
Heute Abend - Anne Weber, Untot und unvergangen: Der Angriff der Virtual Reality auf die Vergangenheit (18h, Centre allemande d'histoire de l'art - Paris). www.dfk-paris.org/fr/node/4143
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Heute Abend - Anne Weber, Untot und unvergangen: Der Angriff der Virtual Reality auf die Vergangenheit (18h, Centre allemande d'histoire de l'art - Paris). www.dfk-paris.org/fr/node/4143
Gift-link: more frightening news in American academia.
(And because I can't resist: Ackman's suit seems to be terribly tailored and I'm quite sure he's wearing copious make-up. Which is all fine unless one's an odious little troll bent on domination.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
(And because I can't resist: Ackman's suit seems to be terribly tailored and I'm quite sure he's wearing copious make-up. Which is all fine unless one's an odious little troll bent on domination.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Gift-link: more frightening news in American academia.
(And because I can't resist: Ackman's suit seems to be terribly tailored and I'm quite sure he's wearing copious make-up. Which is all fine unless one's an odious little troll bent on domination.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
(And because I can't resist: Ackman's suit seems to be terribly tailored and I'm quite sure he's wearing copious make-up. Which is all fine unless one's an odious little troll bent on domination.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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Important insight from Dagmar Herzog on the New Fascist Body venerated by today's right.
publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...
publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...
Fascism's Body Politics - Public Seminar
Dagmar Herzog explains how ableism's historical legacy informs the fascisms of Donald Trump and Germany's AfD.
publicseminar.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Important insight from Dagmar Herzog on the New Fascist Body venerated by today's right.
publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...
publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...
Gift-link: an utterly terrifying article from Dr. Rachael Bedard. I only note otherwise there's no mention of any cognitive dissonance or permission structures. Imagine knowing--on some basic level--that one was indirectly responsible for their own child's death. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Opinion | I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Gift-link: an utterly terrifying article from Dr. Rachael Bedard. I only note otherwise there's no mention of any cognitive dissonance or permission structures. Imagine knowing--on some basic level--that one was indirectly responsible for their own child's death. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Someone please tell me if this argument is flawed:
2008 financial crisis ➡️ Cameron & Osborne's austerity ➡️ Brexit ➡️ political instability.
Reeves/McSweeney: Keep Brexit in place, don't raise taxes on the rich, placate UK bond market, wave hands ➡️ win over Reform voters devastated by austerity (?).
2008 financial crisis ➡️ Cameron & Osborne's austerity ➡️ Brexit ➡️ political instability.
Reeves/McSweeney: Keep Brexit in place, don't raise taxes on the rich, placate UK bond market, wave hands ➡️ win over Reform voters devastated by austerity (?).
Man, I hope competent Dems and leftwing pols the world over hold up Starmer (/McSweeney) and Reeves' government as a cautionary tale for decades and decades to come and hence salvage something from that slow-rolling, unnecessary train-wreck of 'centrism,' fiscal orthodoxy, de facto austerity, &c.
Britain’s Most Unpopular Chancellor in Decades Faces Another Big Test
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Someone please tell me if this argument is flawed:
2008 financial crisis ➡️ Cameron & Osborne's austerity ➡️ Brexit ➡️ political instability.
Reeves/McSweeney: Keep Brexit in place, don't raise taxes on the rich, placate UK bond market, wave hands ➡️ win over Reform voters devastated by austerity (?).
2008 financial crisis ➡️ Cameron & Osborne's austerity ➡️ Brexit ➡️ political instability.
Reeves/McSweeney: Keep Brexit in place, don't raise taxes on the rich, placate UK bond market, wave hands ➡️ win over Reform voters devastated by austerity (?).
The newly redeveloped Getty Provenance Index is now available (@gettymuseum.bsky.social; #arthistory, #skystorians): www.getty.edu/tracingart/
Tracing Art
How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming research on the social life of art
www.getty.edu
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The newly redeveloped Getty Provenance Index is now available (@gettymuseum.bsky.social; #arthistory, #skystorians): www.getty.edu/tracingart/
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social), Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death (Dorf on Law; h/t ES, #skystorians): www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/11/orig...
Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death
A few weeks ago at the Federalist Society National Convention, Judge Patrick Bumatay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit decla...
www.dorfonlaw.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social), Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death (Dorf on Law; h/t ES, #skystorians): www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/11/orig...
Man, I hope competent Dems and leftwing pols the world over hold up Starmer (/McSweeney) and Reeves' government as a cautionary tale for decades and decades to come and hence salvage something from that slow-rolling, unnecessary train-wreck of 'centrism,' fiscal orthodoxy, de facto austerity, &c.
Britain’s Most Unpopular Chancellor in Decades Faces Another Big Test
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Man, I hope competent Dems and leftwing pols the world over hold up Starmer (/McSweeney) and Reeves' government as a cautionary tale for decades and decades to come and hence salvage something from that slow-rolling, unnecessary train-wreck of 'centrism,' fiscal orthodoxy, de facto austerity, &c.
Jesus! (Duras; cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mal...)
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Jesus! (Duras; cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mal...)