RIP to one of the greats

Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction The German auteur’s recent book presents a strange, idiosyncratic vision of the concept of “truth,” one that defines how he sees the world and his art.

"Border of exploitation."

Today's article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @lowrypressly.bsky.social & @thenation.com!

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Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction The German auteur’s recent book presents a strange, idiosyncratic vision of the concept of “truth,” one that defines how he sees the world and his art.

some thoughts about Werner Herzog's new book in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks

Congratulations! Excited to read it

How’s the novel? I’m interested but haven’t yet been able to get my hands on a copy

Fleece vests, tactical vests, weighted vests. What is going on?

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

weeeyyyyyyy

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Coming up: With all the oversharing and data-mining, is there still such thing as a private life? Josh & Ray open up with @lowrypressly.bsky.social, author of "The Right to Oblivion: #Privacy & the Good Life" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in SF & www.kalw.org/show/philoso....

#PhilSky #philosophy

I had a blast talking with Josh and Ray yesterday. Tune in to check it out!

excited for this one

Congratulations!!

Laura Loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE

Love this one

The Right to Privacy: Lowry Pressly in Conversation with Alexander Nemerov

Bay Area folks: I'll be having an open-ended public conversation with the art historian Alex Nemerov about the powers of unknowing, today at 430pm. Neither of us has any idea about what's going to transpire, so it should be interesting at least

events.stanford.edu/event/the-ri...

And tomorrow afternoon I’ll be giving the Odyssey Lecture at Brown ppe.brown.edu/events/odyssey
Come say hello!

Pvd friends, I’ll be at Riffraff tonight to read and talk with the great Francesca Mari—come through!

Academic freedom in America needs to be defended. Here’s how | Jan-Werner Müller To begin with, universities should not be intimidated by the claim that public opinion is turning against them. That’s not necessarily true

"There's value to institutional neutrality under two conditions: critics remain free to speak their minds...and universities remain free to defend their core mission. After all, they can hardly be neutral about their own existence."

Column in The Guardian:

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Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone? The political theorist Lowry Pressly thinks we’ve abandoned a more creative and humanist definition of the concept.

Very grateful for this beautiful, thoughtful review of The Right to Oblivion at @thenation.com. It's especially pleasing to see the book put into conversation with great Bernadette Mayer

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

DC area friends and enemies: I'll be in town, talking with Antón Barba-Kay, on Feb 20. Come say hello. Also check out Antón's terrific book, if you haven't already

Thanks, Peter!

Today's the day! I poured everything I've got into this book, and now, eight years after I started working on it, it is officially published! I'm so grateful for everyone who helped make this book a reality - and to all of my readers for their support.

…have you heard about this, drywall? nobody ever used that word before, and now the walls are wettt, can you believe it, wetttt wallllssssss, but we’re gonna get em dry again, drier than they’ve ever been…

insanely pleasing to have my book appear in this murderer’s row of a year in reading

so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges

(this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)

Very interesting. Thanks for reading!