Steven Van Impe

Ondersteuning voor het IOB schrappen: Vlaanderen schiet zichzelf in de voet

Gillian Mathys is hoofddocent Afrikaanse geschiedenis aan de UGent. De auteur schrijft dit opiniestuk samen met een tiental ondertekenaars.

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I think Eco wrote about writing The Name of the Rose somewhere.

"Go to Mastodon". I tried that. But it came off as a honey pot for people who get sexually aroused by the thought of watching normies try to install Linux.

Title page of the book, showing woodcut images of disabled beggars with crutches.

An opening of the book, showing small woodcut images of beggars and thieves.

From the fantastic 'Der fielen, rabauwen, oft der schalcken vocabulaer', a dictionary of Bargoens or thieves' #slang (1563).

EHC 751372, now described in STCV: anet.be/record/stcvo....

Browse digital version: books.google.be/books?vid=EH...

The bottom of a page of printed text, showing three hands (or printers' fists) pointing at each other.

The spiderman meme: three spidermen pointing at each other.

#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory

BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why.

It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!

#bookhistory #reading

Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed: 1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks 2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens 3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens 4: India: Cottons Cowries 5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns 6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance 7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products 8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain 9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco 10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo 11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses 12: Brazil: Coffee 13: Brazil: Gold 14: Mexico / Peru: Silver 15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America. A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map.

Greyscale drawing of a floor plan of what looks like the first floor of a house, with ten rooms and a flight of stairs. The title at the bottom reads: "The Magic Bookshop." There are two exterior doors: a front door and a back door. The floor plan is on a tattered piece of paper that looks as if it is being unrolled from the top, so there is a curl of paper, or a scroll, at the bottom. Around the floor plan are four animals. A cat, labeled Angel, is resting on top of floor plan, dangling a paw down. To her left is a huntsman spider named Drusilla. At the bottom of the page on the left is a golden retriever named Willow, sitting behind the scroll like a good boy. On the right side is a cat named Spike, who is sitting on top of the scroll and crushing it like an jerk. Typical dog and cat stuff. There are four piles of books around the outside of the floor plan: two large, and two small From top left down in a switchback pattern, the rooms are labeled: Yellow: Books with gold covers Possibility: Mystery, Crime (where they do the spell) Exeunt Omnes: Older books (where Kennedy finds the magic book) The Office (where hazel makes tea) Bathroom Gurgler: Sci-fi, Fantasy (where Hazel goes to hide out) The Scriptorium: More modern books (where Hazel sends Luke to find a book for his niece) Taboo The Fishbowl: Romance (where Luke makes a pink and purple bookcase) Pooh Corner: Children, Young adult (where Bob has his armchair and the silent book club happens) A label in the central hallway reads: "(where they put a bookcase for Today's Donations). Another label on the stairs reads "Hazel's loft apartment" and there is an arrow pointing up the stairs.

Art. A greyscale map of southern Africa showing different biomes. The map map key indicates 7 different biomes: Succulent Karoo; Fynbos; Albany Thicket; India Ocean Coastal Belt; Mixed Woodland; Grassland; Nama-Karoo; and Kalahari Savanna. Each is represented on the may by a different shade of grey, with areas of more rainfall being darker, and areas of less rainfall being lighter. Several of the rivers are labeled, as is the Indian Ocean.

Art. Colored map showing the locations of Alderely Edge, done in a fantasy style. The map is drawn to look like an old map done on parchment, with torn edges curling up. Two bars with ribbons wrapped around them form a frame at the top and right sides of the map. The ribbon on top is blue, the one on the right is a dusty red. On the right side of the map, between the frame and the edge, the map is colored turquoise and does not show any land forms. Written in large vertical letters in this space is the maps' title: "The Edge". The main part of the map is cut with forests and cliffs, and has 13 locations noted. Each location name is in a small frame that looks like a torn piece of parchment. Two roads cut across the map, one labeled Macclesfield Road and the other labeled Artists Lane. They meet in the bottom 3rd of the map by a location called "The Wizard Tearoom." An arrow at the top left points up one of the roads and has a label reading "to Alderely Edge (village). An arrow a the other end of the road, at the bottom of th emap, reads: "To Macclesfield."

Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills.

So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions.

Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately:
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French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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Microsoft Teams should be classed as a terrorist organisation.

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

The number of parents who gasped when we told them no, we could not tell them what their kids checked out because their kids have a right to privacy!

We offered “one book cards” to kids whose parents wouldn’t agree to let them have a card. They could take out a book at a time. The FURY.

Thank you!

Incidentally, I am still looking for this MS!
I reached out to the Kristeller archives @columbiauniversity.bsky.social some time ago, but still waiting for the reply. I guess their staff are having a rough time!

A brown leather binding with a thin golden double line at the edges. The corners and the back are in sturdy goatskin, the main covering is in calfskin (or sheepskin?)

Not sure how to describe the binding. It's a half-leather binding, but the other half is... also leather.

Bookplate pasted on marbled paper. It's an etching showing a man with a beard sitting at his desk, writing. Behind him, a bookcase and two busts of learned men.

The book also features the bookplate of a Joseph Knight whom I haven't been able to identify yet. Now Antwerp, EHC 912860.

Title page, printed in black & red, of the book "A compendious history of the Goths, Swedes, & Vandals"

A handwritten note, on paper of the Century Hotel in Antwerp, saying "Hommage à Camille Huysmans! 26 mai 1946" and signed "Winifred Bennett" and "John S Bennett".

Using heritage objects for diplomatic gifts has a long history. Here, a 1658 edition of Olaus Magnus' History of the Northern People (ESTC R12262) donated by British diplomat John S Bennett and his wife Winifred to Belgian socialist politician Camille Huysmans, mayor of Antwerp, in 1946. #NewAcq

On it. I'll send you snapshots of the table of contents first?

A Snail of Two Cities
For Whom the Shell Tolls
The Adventures of Shell-lock Holmes
The Scarlet Pimpershell
Frankenslime
The Slime of the Ancient Mariner

You can fill in the rest...

A cat tree that looks like a printing press.

A printing press that looks like a cat tree.

I’m sure this is just me, but cat trees look like printing presses?

Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

frog butt. it’s cute as hell. you probably wanna poke it or something weird like that. it’s ok. it’s just a picture. go ahead. poke your screen

look at this frog butt