Sarah C. Schaefer

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Came across this ad for the Milwaukee School of Engineering in vol 1 issue 2 of Amazing Stories!

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a cartoon of a man reading a book with the words " how can you read this there 's no pictures " below him ALT: a cartoon of a man reading a book with the words " how can you read this there 's no pictures " below him

Other material and immaterial forms are valuable primary sources. And while I'm not good at historical forecasting, it seems clear that learning to engage critically with non-written forms is only going to become more and more vital.

When talking about periods of history with few or no extant written sources, I implore: PLEASE, don't frame it as "all we have is the material/archaeological record." It reinforces the idea that the written word is the be-all and end-all of historical evidence...

Very cool, Popular Mechanics, but why did you use an image of Bryn Celli Ddu in North Wales?
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Milein Cosman, who was initially approached to do illustrations for Farmer Giles of Ham. Both images from 1942-43; Eagle and Child on the right.

#tolkien

Double feature suggestion: "Meatloaf's World" --> Wayne's World and Spice World

An amazing write-up of the venue my spouse has been pouring his lifeblood into!

Evers' third term question, Trump's economic policies, what Wisconsin voters agree on, and more: 5 Takeaways from the June 2025 Marquette Poll The poll asked a question we've been asking here, too: Should Tony Evers run for a third term? Analysis of those poll results and a whole lot more.

NEW: Here's my breakdown of the latest Marquette Poll, which asks about Tony Evers and a third term.

Along with those # 's, I took a look at what Wisconsinites agree on, where people stand on Trump's economic policies, and more.

Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/evers-thir...

Something really important about organizations’ decisions to adopt AI tools which people need to understand is this: it often comes down to a room of a handful of people who are simply uninformed and think it’s just a new norm they’ll be left behind on if they don’t find a use for it in their work.

This appears to be absolutely antithetical to the mission of the National Archives and a thinly-veiled attempt by the Trump administration to give it the authority to decide who gets to conduct research.

It’s also entirely unnecessary. You already need to make an appt to conduct research at NARA II

Learned a few days ago that Ian Ballantine lived next to Todd Rudgren. My dad about lost his mind.

10 Takeaways from the WisDems 2025 Convention From the speeches to the Chair vote to the celebration of outgoing chair Ben Wikler, here's our takeaways from two days in Wisconsin Dells for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin's annual convention.

I spent the weekend at “The Ben Wikler Show,” aka the WisDems 2025 Convention.

Read my 10 takeaways here. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/10-takeawa...

I watched something recently in which a character described being addicted to making money and I can't get the idea out of my head. Like, what would happen if accruing disgusting amounts of wealth was pathologized to a much greater extent and seen as necessitating treatment (e.g. immersion therapy)?

Donate to Keep American Science & Surplus Alive, organized by Patrick Meyer A heartfelt message from Pat Meyer, owner of American Science & Surplus: Calling A… Patrick Meyer needs your support for Keep American Science & Surplus Alive

AS&S is one of my absolute favorite Milwaukee institutions––pls help if you can!

Tolkien’s road goes on – but there’s traffic ahead at Bovadium I’ve been waiting for Tolkien’s Bovadium Fragments since 1976, when I first read Humphrey Carpenter’s Tolkien biography… And now it’s almost here. What can we expect?

What can we expect from Tolkien's BOVADIUM FRAGMENTS? tinyurl.com/bovadian
#Tolkien #Bovadium

(Alas that Bluesky will not allow me to post the Tolkien-shrug gif that I desire)

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My OCR version of Nick Groom's "Tolkien, Geology, and Romantic Lithology" keeps reading "stones" as "scones"––"the Seeing Scones," "the philosophical study of scones," "the Scone of Erech"...

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Unexpected/completely predictable search result following a conversation that started with “How funny would it be if we got a phrenological head for our house?”

Gustave Doré and Hélidore Pisan’s Newgate—Exercise Yard, 1872 Sarah C. Schaefer argues that today’s viral images of prisoners like Luigi Mangione draw on a 19th-century precedent established by Gustave Doré.

In her Close-Up on Gustave Doré’s engraving “Newgate—Exercise Yard,” 1872, @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social connects depictions of prisoners ranging from the nineteenth century to Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange,” 1971, and the much-publicized photographs of Luigi Mangione’s 2024 “perp walk.”

See you at #Westmoot!

George Lucas to Helm Namesake Museum’s “Content Direction” as Director Departs Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the inaugural director and CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, will leave the still-under-construction institution.

Following the departure of Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the inaugural director and CEO of the still-under-construction Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, director George Lucas will take primary responsibility for curatorial direction at his namesake institution. www.artforum.com/news/george-...

I struggled to come to a definitive position on how we should look at Doré's vision of Newgate, but ultimately I hope it just encourages critical engagement with representations of "the prison" and its frequently anonymized populations.

When I thought of the "Jackson Prison," my mind typically went instead to the more centrally-located old prison site, with its picturesque, medievalizing brick facade. Still imposing, its defunct status made it an object of fascination, not anxiety, fear, or anger.

It also brought me back to growing up in a town known for having what was once the largest walled prison in the world. I still use it as a way of identifying the location to other Michiganders, despite not having seen the site until well into high school.

I've never been much of an annotator, but there are a few instances I remember thinking that it was especially important to do so. Discipline and Punish, purchased at my undergrad mentor's insistence, is one of them.

It conjured up a lot of personal reflection that didn't end up in the piece. My first undergraduate research project, which solidified my art historical interests, examined Toulouse-Lautrec's poster for the serialized memoir of Abbé Faure, "At the Foot of the Scaffold."

Gustave Doré and Hélidore Pisan’s Newgate—Exercise Yard, 1872 Sarah C. Schaefer argues that today’s viral images of prisoners like Luigi Mangione draw on a 19th-century precedent established by Gustave Doré.

Humbled to have been able to write on Doré's image of Victorian incarceration and its reverberations (van Gogh, Kubrick, Mangione) for this month's Artforum.

www.artforum.com/features/gus...

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