Ioan Trifu

空襲の焼け跡を「畑」にすることになった…ガレキまじりの土に悪戦苦闘　子どもの目に映った戦時中の食生活：東京新聞デジタル ＜戦後80年　私のことば　6月　後編＞　沖縄で住民の犠牲を強いる戦いが続き、東京も繰り返し空襲に遭っていた80年前。東京都滝野川区（現...

if anyone happens to have access to Tokyo Shimbun and would be willing to send me screen shots of the following article, I'd be eternally grateful:

www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/415737

It's directly related to an essay I'm writing on gardening in urban Japan in the ashes of defeat

Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below - Volume 119 Issue 4

From our November Issue: Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below by CHARLES H. T. LESCH. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

To show prospective students our discipline's research priorities, I scraped the last 6 @apsa-preprints.bsky.social annual meeting programs to count papers by section, then assigned sections to subfields. Polisci remains fascinated with the American case!

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

Modern International Thought and Southeastern Europe: An Interview with Georgios Giannakopoulos by Dimitrios Mitsopoulos

In an interview with Dimitrios Mitsopoulos for the JHI Blog, Georgios Giannakopoulos discusses his book, The Interpreters (Manchester UP, 2025), which uncovers how British scholars, journalists, and travelers used southeastern Europe as a laboratory for rethinking liberalism between 1870 and 1930.

The "digital environment," doesn't just refer to the affordances of the platform, but the structures of moderation (including TOS) that organize such an environment. Environments are more than digital structures; they include the social structures of the platform, which folks keep ignoring.

C’est aussi un guide qui ne fera aucune concession ni ouverture vers la population iranienne. Bref, la guerre déclenchée par les États-Unis et Israël, loin de soumettre le régime iranien, vient de l’enfoncer encore plus dans intransigeance. 4/4

The Alibi of Capital Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of c...

Timothy Mitchell, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow - @versobooks.bsky.social, March 2026
www.versobooks.com/products/345...

Si la venue au pouvoir du RN ne vous fait pas réellement peur, c'est que vous avez séché l'entièreté des cours d'histoire pendant votre scolarité et que vous n'avez pas pris connaissance de ce que l'administration Trump est actuellement en train de faire aux Etats-Unis et au monde.

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:

The choices universities and colleges make about AI are political Ahead of this week's Digifest, Michael Webb and Rebecca Flook confront the complex values systems behind general purpose AI technology

'The systems now being woven into education are shaped by a remarkably small group of people. Not “the internet” as the source of training material. Not “society” influencing the way we use these tools.'

Fascinating that this comes from within Jisc. 1/3

We're operating in 6 hour news cycles driven by social media panic in ways that make it impossible for too many people to think more than one move ahead

Demain sur @artefr.bsky.social et mardi 17, à 20h55, sur arte, ne manquez pas le documentaire de Jean Bulot sur les soldats français du Reich. Un éclairage inédit sur ces Français engagés dans la Légion des Volontaires Français et la Division Charlemagne.

fondationshoah.org/memoire/les-....

My feed is full of political and economic doom this morning, but this brought a short smile to my face:

Politics really matters. Every bit of it. It's not about posting and it's not about vibes.

"Basically Church Type Stuff:" Old Timey Christian Americanism and the Rhizomatic History of American Fascism Or, the crucial but sometimes fuzzy distinction between a) being a White American Christian, and b) being influenced by a violent, White Christian Supremacist variety of conspiratorial, antisemitic Am...

I finally finished writing a long, winding piece on "America's distinctive political culture of vernacular fascism." It's about white country music, AM radio, paramilitary camps for Klansmen in 1960s Colorado, TPUSA, and a former chair of the OR GOP. rightlandia.ghost.io/basically-ch...

God I hate this idea. People are not one more image of a dead baby away from radicalisation. We don't lack will, we lack any real means to act on our will because the left has ceased to be a political project and become a few thousand people trying to Post their way out of Posting.

We built the United Nations, with all its flaws, with the hope of never having World War II again and we're going to have to build a new set of multilateral institutions with the hope of never having Donald J. Trump again

Anti-Liberal Historians Liberals can’t catch a break.

I haven't read the new volume on Cold War liberalism yet, but I'm with David that this conversation has gotten increasingly untethered from, you know, history

Admin won't tell us why we're at war but at least they're happy to talk about the super secret plan to take Iran's uranium

affiche du colloque "Périodisations historiques et synchronies imaginaires"

La semaine prochaine, 12-13 mars, c'est le 1er colloque de l'ANR PASSIM, que je co-organise avec @bretonjustine.bsky.social à Univ. Artois.
Inscriptions ci-dessous pour obtenir le lien !
evenements.univ-artois.fr/e/1393/collo...
Et le super programme est (par exemple) ici : calenda.org/1352282

YouTube video by BLAST, Le souffle de l'info LA DROITE, C'EST LE MENSONGE

Les raccourcis, c'est bien pour aller plus vite du point A au point B, mais moins en théorie politique. Aller de "La droite, c'est le mensonge", à "On peut mentir en démocratie donc la démocratie est une mauvaise idée et il faut donner le pouvoir aux experts", ça craint un peu 💀

Raymond Aron - Théorie de l'action politique

Entre violence et justice, cours au Collège de France (1973)

À paraître en mars chez Calmann-Lévy

Nicolas Guilhot - Conspiracy

The History of a Political Obsession

À paraître en juin aux Harvard UP

Judith N. Shklar - The Liberalism of Fear

À paraître en juin aux Harvard UP

From Tehran: "It’s catastrophic. The smoke has entered our homes, the flames are still rising and it feels like the sun is shining… The flames are so bright the highways look like it’s day time. So bright but doesn’t feel right... Help please!”

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced Trump’s agenda. The prompt was simple: “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.?"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

A screenshot showing 24 Japanese magazine cover thumbnails on archive.org They're Nintendo's Family Computer Magazine's 1987 issues.

Awesome news! @ozidual.bsky.social edited the full run of the 1987 Famimaga (Nintendo's Family Computer Magazine) magazines that I scanned a while back which means they're so much easier to flip through and read now! Check them out: archive.org/details/@ozi...

星新一賞、AI作品が上位独占　文学とは何かを問う - 日本経済新聞 文学とは何か。辞書を引くと「言語によって人間の外界および内界を表現する芸術作品」（広辞苑第六版）とある。人工知能（AI）にもたずねてみた。「人間の感情、思想、社会のあり方を描写し、普遍的な人間像を追究する言葉の芸術」と教えてくれた。先月、日経「星新一賞」の受賞作品の発表があった。13回目となる今回、一般部門においてグランプリや優秀賞など受賞4作品のうち3作品が創作過程でAIを活用していた。最終

Three out of four winners of the Nikkei Shin'ichi Hoshi Prize for science fiction used AI. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...