Nic Subtirelu, neurodissent podcast

The students and I will explore the purpose of community college education and also study the institutions themselves and how they serve (or not) different populations.

It will be fire🔥

Has anyone started the subfield "Critical community college studies"?

I think it's needed, and I'm planning to theme my writing course next semester around critical community college studies.

A new episode of our podcast "The Hammer of Witches" is out now!

In it, we talk about the witch hunting manual The Malleus Maleficarum written around 1486 by a couple of men who were witch hunters, granted authority by the Inquisition

Check it out! :)

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This morning I am editing our episode on the Malleus Maleficarum, or The Hammer of Witches.

Molly and I enjoyed hating on some 15th-16th century misogyny :)

Even though there is a more respected translation, it's not open access.

One thing I think I will do is compare significant sections of Montague Summers' translation with the other translation by Christopher Mackay

I wonder if others have other suggestions

...With a paucity of notes, a tendentious historical introduction, and questionable translation choices at almost every turn, Summers's Malleus has long been excoriated by scholars, but no one (in the Anglophone world) stepped forward to produce anything better."

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It's clear that there are flaws in the translation, and I've seen historians slamming it.

Here's a quote from a historian reviewing a new translation of the MM:

"Malleus maleficarum is perhaps the most famous text in the history of European witchcraft....

Do you have experience working with imperfect translations? How do you handle it?

I am reading a translation of the Malleus Maleficarum, done by Montague Summers in 1928.

I chose this translation because there's a free digital version available sacred-texts.com/pag/mm/index...

But....

I'm going to go try to lure some more people away from the bad place :)

Ooooo I now have an invite code :)

Oooh this looks useful! Can't wait to check out some of the chapters in this volume

Ain't that the truth

😱😨😭

I've been trying out so many new social media platforms I can't even remember them all.

I totally forgot Mastodon exists.

I am also excited to dig into some contemporary scholars' interpretations of this very... uh unusual text....

I am reading it because it tells us a lot about how these 15th century clergy members thought about the mind and its afflictions

Witches were capable of affecting people's minds in a variety of ways, including perhaps to no one's surprise causing married men to fall in love with them

One of the things I'm working on now is a new episode of the podcast. It will focus on the 15th century book Malleus Maleficarum, or "The Hammer of Witches"

The book was influential with clergy and inquisitors, which is horrifying since it advocates killing witches

I live in the Washington DC metro area with my wife (who is cohost to the neurodissent podcast), my dog, and my cat :)

The past several years have seen a radical shift in my life.

A few years back, I had a mental health crisis that resulted in, among other things, my decision to quit my job as a professor @ an elite uni.

Now I'm trying to find peace of mind, living under capitalism. I'm having minimal success.

I'm also a teacher. I teach writing at a community college.

Often my scholarship is aimed at this audience, my students, in particular.

I consider myself a public scholar. I write and speak to general audiences, using open access sources. I hope to make my scholarship as accessible as possible, with the understanding that "access" is a multifaceted and sometimes fraught process.

Hey y'all! A reintroduction :)

I'm Nic. I'm a scholar who writes and talks about a variety of topics, but most notably I'm interested in madness & neurodivergence.

My background is in applied linguistics, but I've gone considerably outside my disciplinary boundaries in my learning & work

Agreed. I really dislike what's been done to the algorithm over the past few (several?) years. I miss what that site used to be like.... Oh no is this what mil;ennial nostalgia looks like?

Love, Wonder, & Healing - Nic Subtirelu In the seventh episode of the neurodissent podcast, we look back over our first six episodes. We discuss some of the major ideas we’ve covered so far: the role of communities in care, the healing po...

The latest episode of our podcast is called "Love, Wonder, & Healing" (Season 1, Episode 7)

nsubtirelu.com/love-wonder-...

We recap episodes 1-6 and pull out important ideas from them: the role of community in care, the power of belief, and the conflict between medicine & spirituality.

I'm here, and I'm hoping this is going to be better than Musk Land.