Daragh Grant

Ungated PDF at: www.theobeers.com/fasolt-hegel...

Hegel’s Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages | Viator According to an old historical tradition, the Reformation marked a fundamental break from the Middle Ages. The tradition has a point, because the Reformation really did bring major change. But it is a...

Constantin Fasolt’s “Hegel’s Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages” (2008) is a magisterial example of a scholar at the height of his powers who knows how to say exactly what he means and understands the immense difficulty of doing so. Ungated PDF👇 www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...

YouTube video by Juno Films THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN Official Trailer

This is a beautiful little film. Its use of silence works brilliantly to highlight the deep well of revolutionary disappointment that McGahern depicts so carefully in his work, without ever quite succumbing to it. youtu.be/WiZn7figKHc

You can find other testimony in support, including the position of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, here: www.cga.ct.gov/aspx/CGADisp...

My reconstruction of the treaty is attached. 2/3

There is a senate joint resolution (SJ 16) before the Government Administration and Elections Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly pertaining to the Treaty of Hartford (1638), and its provisions enjoining the extermination of the Pequot people. Below is my testimony. 1/3

Snap!

What is one to conclude from the contrast between the AHA’s position on Ukraine and its position on Gaza other than it believes some people’s histories are worth more than others?

“I met a traveller from an antique land.” I’m not sure I would insist on better, but I liked the points of contact.

This is, it seems to me, a more fruitful way to make use of Wittgenstein in social & political theory than to see him as a mere methodological alibi for contending idealist accounts focused on pinning down what historical theorists meant by what they said. /end

Both—abstruse theorist and dogmatic activist—are, to borrow Wittgenstein's felicitous metaphors, idling, failing to meet the rough ground, gone on holiday. Like Weber and Marx before him, Hall is attuned to the emptiness of both one-sided idealism and a one-sided materialism. 4/5

What is crucial for Hall is that the error is mutual; the theorist who imagines getting a grip on the world apart from any concern with practice is mirrored by the activist who thinks that they already have all of the answers that they need in the orthodox authorities. 3/5

If for Wittgenstein philosophers went astray when they imagined that they could prise meaning apart from use, Hall makes a similar case for the error—political and intellectual—of trying to prise theory from practice. 2/5

There is, I think, a way to conceive of Stuart Hall’s diagnosis of the Left’s ills through an idiom by which Wittgenstein took issue with much of what passed for philosophy. 1/5

January afternoon sunlight, Merrion Square, Dublin

The model student: Russell on Moore on Wittgenstein—“[Moore] says he always feels W. /must/ be right when they disagree. He says during his lectures W. always looks frightfully puzzled, but nobody else does.”

So sad to see an established historian punch down and personally attack a contingent faculty member like Claire Potter does here. Highly unprofessional behavior. 🗃️

It is disgraceful.

The Irish Times view on the National Archives: a vital resource which has been consistently neglected The service is chronically understaffed and underfunded and too many archive services are undermined by the restrictions under which they operate

Good editorial by the Irish Times about the need to properly fund the National Archives:
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

I’m not saying it means anything or whatever, but when the baby fusses, she’s most quickly soothed by the idea that “the city comes into being for the sake of living, but exists for the sake of living well.” She is totally uninterested in whether you like that translation though.

Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica | The Art Institute of Chicago The first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations gathers together some 350 objects, spanning the 1920s to the present, made by artists on four continents: Africa, Nor...

I’m not remotely unbiased but this show is so, so good—incredible to see a big museum show with this kind of conceptual coherence through hundreds of pieces from across a century and much of the world

Have heard great things about it. Hope to make it before it closes.

It’s all just so staggeringly monstrous.

David Scott’s skeptical formulation, that “X is not so much wrong, as irrelevant,” is a doubt that we could all productively tarry with before spilling our ink.

Post r/ireland saying: "Rent Boys It's my first time for Christmas in Ireland and my work colleague has said that rent boys might come to my house today. Is this normal? I have all the doors locked just in case. It seems a strange Christmas tradition."

This made me laugh.

#Ireland #Humour

Surprisingly well-timed festive arrival, courtesy of @princetonupress.bsky.social.

May Freiheit hand a festive garland to you and your loved ones this Christmas time!

(That’s such a fine looking book, @brunoleipold.com!)

The Specter of the Archive An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society.   We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more informat...

Has already started to win formal accolades (and deserves them!)

A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual

A Microcosm of the World: C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite: The complete, unaired 1976 BBC interview:

#StuartHall #BlackSky #Books #NYB #CLRJames #PhoebeBraithwaite #Read #Bluesky #Writers #Academia #Academic

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Oh, this essay by @kabcommons looks super-interesting!

First effort at Melissa Clark’s Sticky Cranberry Gingerbread. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...