@samantharhill.bsky.social
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I am co-leading a year-long Man Without Qualities Reading Group with @samantharhill.bsky.social , starting on Monday, October 13th. Join us! Details can be found here:
genesegrill.substack.com/p/man-withou...
@samantharhill.bsky.social in New York Times
07.07.2025 14:52 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
"The danger is not that A.I. will replace human connection. The danger is that it will make us forget what actual connection requires..."
@samantharhill.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
She never said it.
10.07.2025 17:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The danger is not that AI will replace human connection," @samantharhill.bsky.social writes. The danger is that it will make us forget what actual connection requires while eroding our ability to think for ourselves." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
08.07.2025 18:55 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
“Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem,”
@samantharhill.bsky.social on the tech loneliness doom hoop.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
My favorite definition of love
Rainer Maria Rilke:
Look Sam, Heidelberg is online @samantharhill.bsky.social youtu.be/i04iCnOUAvc?...
08.05.2025 15:06 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Hannah Arendt with her mother Martha Sara Cohn
11.05.2025 18:18 — 👍 51 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Frank O'Hara
01.05.2025 20:29 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Boredom is the threshold to great deeds."
— Walter Benjamin
I had the same thought.
29.04.2025 21:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"We've grown very poor in threshold experiences."
— Walter Benjamin
Arrived separately together
Looking forward to reading!
I have been reading and teaching Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History for nearly twenty years and today I finally felt the revolutionary argument in the work. Against historicism, against orthodox historical materialism, toward revolutionary historical materialism—waiting.
28.04.2025 17:26 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Read Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil with me!
Especially if you’re feeling a bit at sea, adrift between the no-longer and not-yet
A monument to a moment in time written through meditations on time as Broch imagined the final hours of Virgil’s life.
samantharosehill.substack.com/p/invitation-t
"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule."
— Walter Benjamin
Trump cancels humanities grants to subsidize building statues to humanities scholars, including, apparently, Hannah Arendt, who wrote an entire book about how fascists—like trump—come to power in part by trying to censor what people can read, write, and think about.
21.04.2025 19:39 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Tuberculosis is coming back
People are afraid of vaccines
No more food safety regulations
They want to increase industrial factory production
All while engaging in imperial wars of expansion
People calling for revolution
Welcome to the 19th century!
Can't wait for the barricades.
"The true goal of Fascism was only to seize power and establish the Fascist 'elite' as uncontested ruler over the country."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Arendt and the Freedom to Change the World, a conversation with
Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
& Samantha Rose Hill
@samantharhill.bsky.social
hosted by Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
www.cccb.org/en/multimedi...
Just say nein.
Avoid opera houses.
Don't listen to jazz.
Have a good weekend.
"Laughter helps one to find a place in the world, but ironically, which is to say, without selling one’s soul to it."
— Hannah Arendt
Cue Trump supporters to praise his superior tariff cleverness, accepting their losses in the name of being on the right side of history
07.04.2025 15:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Next Sunday evening, April 13, 8pm
Join Genese Grill and me to discuss Hannah Arendt's poems
substack.com/home/post/p-...
In case anyone questions the importance of the audience: It's not just that news became entertainment. It's also that people stopped knowing what they were applauding. It's the moment when every performance began receiving a standing O. When people began clapping for themselves.
05.04.2025 13:18 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
"I am not tired, or much tired, just exhausted."
— Hannah Arendt
Read Gertrude Stein with me!
03.04.2025 18:41 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!
03.04.2025 18:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi Everyone! I thought I was cross-posting, but I wasn't. So, I've added what I posted on X from my travels. Going to fix the problem. Thank you for being here. - SH
03.04.2025 18:02 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
