Esther Peeren

Can you send that to me? I read German even if most of my students don’t!

Good to know! I’m teaching Enter Ghost this block.

Anti-immigratie-demonstratie Den Haag escaleert, confrontatie met politie De actievoerders steken vuurwerk af en zwaaien met Nederlandse vlaggen maar ook met prinsenvlaggen.

Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets.
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here is the job ad in English: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will? Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

"“If we stop producing people who are trained or educated to help undergraduates understand the most important things thought or written or painted in human history,” the renowned philosopher Robert Pippin said, “we might not be able to recover that.”"

Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTok Times may be tough on the high street but the bookseller Waterstones is enjoying strong sales as younger adults embrace reading as an escape from their screens and as online competition eases. “People have come back to reading and buying books in bookshops as we have made a place which is an enjoyable and effective way to buy books,” says James Daunt, the CEO of the British retailer, which has 320 UK bookshops and owns the Foyles, Hatchards and Blackwell’s names, and whose parent group also owns Barnes & Noble, the US’s largest bookstore chain. Continue reading...

Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading

“keeping the humans in humanities” 💯

Anders dan de BBB beweert is noaberschap (burenhulp) geen typisch regionale deugd. Ook andere politieke actoren maken goede sier met de term, veelal om impopulaire maatregelen met de mantel der liefde te bedekken (‘participatiemaatschappij’). 👉 buff.ly/fuqPT86

When we talk about "real life" in rural areas, what does the word "real" actually mean? Check out our chapter in this great new volume edited by @estherpeeren.bsky.social and Tjalling Valdés Olmos! brill.com/display/titl... @soc-muni.bsky.social

The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.

My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

En die onnozele Wilders en Yesilgoz, die zogenaamd opkomen voor de gewone “hardwerkende” man/vrouw, laten het allemaal gebeuren. Gevolg: grote agro bedrijven krijgen het leeuwendeel vd subsidies, en wij krijgen stikstof, woningnood, slechtste water van Europa enz. En BBB blokkeert verandering.

Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World "Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World" published on 09 Jul 2025 by Brill.

New edited volume on rural imagi nations - out now, fully open access (thanks to the ERC)!

On the upside, this doesn’t even come close to the top-10 most embarrassing things Mark Rutte has done in his career.

Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...

“As you read, a line might hit you. You feel struck. You pause. Here’s where close reading happens. Hold up. Linger with that line. Read it again, a few more times. What gives it its force here in its immediate moment? Work out its power. Does it reveal something about the text’s project?”

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

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The Next Best Picture Podcast - Interview With "Caught By The Tides" Filmmaker Jia Zhangke - Next Best Picture Over the past several decades, Jia Zhangke has become the foremost filmmaker to capture not only the rapid development of China through the 21st century but also how that explosive expansion has shape...

I talked to Jia Zhangke about CAUGHT BY THE TIDES for
@nextbestpicture.bsky.social, talking his grand, abstracted mosaic of this century's constant change. One of my favorite conversations I've done with a filmmaker in ages, proud of this one!

Read here:

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Screenshot of a Facebook post by Quill Kukla: "It took just over two weeks for the search committee to hire a pope and it takes us academics like a year to hire a professor. Embarrassing!"

Maureen N. McLane · Poem: ‘The Historians’

It is time
to remember the ones
who never abandoned
the way to care
for the dead the ones
who said not only my dead
and not only the official dead
matter amidst all the matter.

‘The Historians’, a poem by Maureen N. McLane: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#jobvacancy Kunstinstituut Melly is Looking for a Curator of Collective Learning.
Bring your expertise in (un)learning, interdisciplinary collaboration, and dialogue to shape innovative public programs that engage diverse audiences

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As a Chicago Pope, he’ll be weighed down by footnotes.

Waited all day for a delivery supposed to come between 8:00 and 18:00 and of course it came at 18:45…

I first read the title in cursive as Habermas gender - that would have been an antirely different (but much less special) issue.

My all-time favorite Christmas film Jingle All the Way!

“There is this myth of the digital native, that because some people have grown up with digital devices, they are well equipped to make sense of the information that those devices provide.” The startling reality: The most online generation is the worst at discerning fact from fiction on the internet.

Wij zeggen: Er is wél een rode lijn. Onze advertentie, vandaag in het AD, Trouw en de Volkskrant.

Deel dit statement en help ons om meer partijen te overtuigen.

De muziekfabriek In 1995 ging The Music Factory (TMF) van start als het Nederlandse antwoord op MTV Europe, om zes jaar later al door MTV te worden overgenomen en in 2011 helemaal van de televisie te verdwijnen door d...

Binnenkort – op 1 mei 2025 – is het 30 jaar geleden dat de Nederlandse muziektelevisiezender The Music Factory (TMF) werd gelanceerd. Wil je hier meer over weten, lees dan mijn boek De muziekfabriek: TMF en de Nederlandse popcultuur.

Het lijkt er toch steeds meer op dat Eppo Bruins de meest incompetente en opportunistische minister van OCW is die Nederland in mensenheugenis heeft gehad. Eerst een sector helemaal in crisis storten, en dan, terwijl er een miljard bezuinigd wordt, >

As someone using the crappy little HEMA lights, I wonder where people even get these superbright monstrosities!