Rafaël Newman @rafnewman - Bluesky Profile

Invita Minerva - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël Newman

"This year, it seems, rather than forbidding mourning, my valediction has itself been forbidden: by my mourning the world in which we are becoming all too much at home, and in which serenity, courage, and especially the gift of wisdom seem all too distant hopes."

29.12.2025 13:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Breastbone Harp - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël NewmanSome of the best new music is 100 years old. On October 21, 1925, the Anglo-American composer and violist Rebecca Clarke presented a program

Some of the best new music is 100 years old.
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01.12.2025 19:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why considered "as"? Why not simply "considered"?

05.11.2025 04:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kommt morgen zahlreich, ich bin auch dabei und werde vorlesen...

04.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lingua Trumpii Imperii - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël Newman

On echoes of German philology as antifascist protest in Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters from an American"
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04.11.2025 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finding My Religion - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël Newman

"Religion as ethics: or rather, ethics—a code of conduct in communal human affairs—codified as what we have come to call religion, but which, in our increasingly secular world, might better (and more hopefully) be termed politics."
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10.10.2025 10:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Captain Head - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël NewmanAt the University of Toronto one winter term in the mid-1980s I took an undergraduate course on classical philology. The instructor was Hugh

On Proto-indo-European. And uncles. And Proto-Indo-European uncles.
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12.09.2025 16:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Essen von oben Digitale Bilder von Essen sind allgegenwärtig, sie übernehmen vielfältige kommunikative Funktionen. Als visuelle Markierungen von Identität, Erinnerung und Zugehörigkeit sind sie Teil eines ironischen...

Caspar Battegay schaut über den Tellerrand
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06.09.2025 06:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

THEATER STOK "Lyrik im STOK" - Theater Stok Montag 15. SeptemberBeginn: 19.30 UhrEintrittspreise: 25.- reduziert 20.- Kontakt: Tel. 044 271 20 64 theater_stok@bluewin.chTürffnung und Bar: 19.00 Uhr, Tel. 044 251 22 80Weitere Informationen: www....

On 15 September in Zurich I will be reading my poetry in a bilingual event with Hugo Ramnek.
Kommt zahlreich!
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04.09.2025 04:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

J'accusative - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël NewmanLanguage changes. And I’m fine with that, particularly since it wouldn’t make any difference if I weren’t. I have made my peace with the

On the persistence of the I
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22.08.2025 05:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, Happy Future! - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël Newman

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01.08.2025 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ulyssees on the Limmat - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël NewmanZurich was James Joyce’s home on several occasions. The writer’s first sojourn there, in 1904, was brief: when the prospect of a job teaching

"I have been thinking about what it means to be a curator, of the many honors Frehner and Zeller have done that august but occasionally misunderstood designation, and of their expansion of its scope—beyond museology and the visual arts."
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16.06.2025 20:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GAZA NOUS REGARDE Le génocide en cours exige des prises de position.

Dieses Anliegen ist mir sehr wichtig – bitte unterschreiben & weiterleiten: act.campax.org/petitions/ga...

05.06.2025 07:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Papal Bull - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël NewmanOn September 29, 1978, Albino Luciani, who had been elected Pope John Paul I just 33 days earlier, on August 26, 1978, was found dead in his

"The ideal of the Pope as a benevolent, forgiving, unconditionally loving, universalist, non-sexual father…answers a powerful need, despite (or perhaps on account of) the systemic violence of the real existing patriarchal order."

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25.05.2025 10:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Im Feld ein Mädchen singt Informationsseite zum Publikationsprojekt rund um die Vertonungen der Gedichte der deutsch-jüdischen Dichterin, Denkerin und Deuterin Margarete Susman.

Am 25. Mai präsentieren wir im KVFM in Frankfurt Gedichte Margarete Susmans, von diversen Komponist*innen vertont, von Alice Lackner gesungen und von Jascha Nemtsov am Klavier begleitet. Ich darf das Programm moderieren und zu den Texten vortragen.

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14.05.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Second Nature - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël Newman

On the upcoming federal election in Canada, social democracy and the New Paganism
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22.04.2025 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Malcolm Gaskill · We’re eating goose! When Peasants Made War The German Peasants’ War was an expression of a novel political sensibility and has informed every major European...

New book on the Bauernkrieg
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12.04.2025 07:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Next Year in Prenzlauer Berg - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël NewmanBy a quirk of the calendars, Passover, the annual commemoration of the flight from bondage, is precisely coterminous this year with Academic

Aus gegebenem Anlass
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12.04.2025 05:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Homeland. Homeless. Homesick. - 3 Quarks Daily by Rafaël Newman

Thinking about this wonderful Wahlzürcherin as I prepare my remarks for a concert of her poems set to music, next month in Frankfurt
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11.04.2025 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0