Steven Shapin · Heart, Head, Life, Fate: Talk to the hand The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something...

‘Some late Victorian anatomists and physiologists believed that all the brain’s thoughts influenced the hand, and early 20th-century phenomenologists liked to say that “the hand is the visible part of the brain.”’

Steven Shapin on a new account of the hand.

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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

The Art of Doing Nothing Creative people: Your culture needs YOU—to sit around and do nothing.

“Boredom terrifies our screen-addicted culture… Before Twitter, artists refused to talk their ideas to death, guarding them like seeds in winter. Our culture, by contrast, flings them into the dopamine void—where they perish on contact.”
www.oxfordsour.com/p/the-art-of...

En eller flera biträdande lektor i krigsvetenskap Anställningen är placerad vid institutionen för krigsvetenskap i Stockholm.   Beskrivning av ämnesområdet Krigsvetenskap är en samhällsvetenskap och dess centrala studieobjekt är krig och mil

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This INSANELY good site has catalogued the signage from 115 of Europe's underground stations. So much typographic eye candy, not to mention tiles and colours.
ubahn.photos

Tusen år av historia utraderad i Gaza I Gaza har moskéer, muséer och badhus förstörts. ”Aldrig tidigare har kulturarv attackerats på det här viset”, säger arkeologen Marc-André Haldimann.

www.dn.se/kultur/tusen...

The Emergence of a Military Urban in and of War The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine demonstrates once again the vulnerability and significance of cities in war. In this article, and with inspiration from Ian Hacking’s historical ontology, I dra...

Got a new piece out, for those of you interested in urban warfare and military epistemics
doi.org/10.1080/2469...

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