adore the presence of the footnote. #NoWhiteGloves & #TeamFootnote
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Amidst all the (correct) hatred of AI, I think we're being remiss in our hatred of endnotes. We've got to keep up that vendetta.
(Guess who just hit her limit on the number of pdf pages she can download from an ebook before realising the damn endnotes are a mahoosive separate pdf...) #TeamFootnote
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#TeamFootnote w an early TSK outing. 😀🤓
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THANK YOU
#teamfootnote
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I know it’s just the crowd chanting more, all this takes work, and I’m deeply #TeamFootnote. The request partly bc some people really do want more, and it shows the work behind the work. //
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I am so here for #TeamFootnote = #TeamDemocracy and I'm a little worried that Judge Boasberg might be a bit of a minimalist on this.
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oh, maybe #TeamFootnote should get badges with John Hodgson's face on, @kawulf.bsky.social? Because this man was definitely #TeamFootnote. (what a delight of a thread!)
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Btw this ⬇️ is definitely a version of #TeamFootnote,
@niemanreports.org! Bc info accountability and transparency practices are at the heart of both scholarship--and democracy! I'm about to order more stickers.
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Same! #TeamFootnote all the way.
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The instrument of a smashing victory indeed! #TeamFootnote!
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transcript of a page: In truth, perhaps, we have not fully accomplished it. The grim esoterism, in which even the best of us sometimes fall, the preponderance, in our current writing, of those dreary textbooks which bad teaching-concepts have put in place of true synthesis, the curious modesty which, as soon as we are outside the study, seems to forbid us to expose the honest groping of our methods before a profane public - all these bad habits, derived from an accumulation of contradictory preju- dices, compromise the essential nobility of our cause. They conspire to surrender the mass of defenseless readers to the false brilliance of a bogus history, in which lack of seriousness, picturesque rubbish, and political prejudices are supposed to be redeemed by shameless self-assurance: thus, Maurras,
Bainville, or Plekhanov affirm that which Fustel de Coulanges or Pirenne would have doubted. A misunderstanding between historical inquiry, such as it is or hopes to be, and the reading public unquestionably does exist. The great debate about footnotes is not the least significant ground upon which the two parties are engaged in their absurd duel. For a great many scholars, the lower margin of the page exerts a fascination bordering upon mania. It is surely absurd to overcrowd these margins, as they do, with bibliographical references which might largely have been spared by a list drawn up at the beginning of the volume; and worse still, through sheer laziness, to relegate to them long explanations whose proper place was indicated in the main body of the text, so that the most useful part of these works must be looked for in the cellar. But when certain readers complain that a single note, strutting along by itself at the foot of the page, makes their heads swim, or when certain publishers claim that their customers, doubtless less hypersensitive in reality than they would have us believe, are tortured by the mere sight of a page thus disfigured, these <£sthetes merely prove their impervious- ness to the most elementary maxims of an intellectual ethic. For, apart from the free play of imagination, we have no right to make any assertion which cannot be verified and a historian who in using a document indicates the source as briefly as possible (that is, the means of finding it again) is only obeying a universal rule of honesty. Corrupted by dogma and myth, current opinion, even when it is least hostile to enlightenment, has lost the very taste for verification. On that day when, having fust taken care not to discourage it with useless pedantry, we shall succeed in persuading the public to measure the value of a science in proportion to its willingness to make refutation easy, the forces of reason will achieve one of their
most smashing victories. Our humble notes, our finicky little references, .currently lampooned by many who do not under- stand them, are working toward that day.
Just because I love Marc Bloch’s celebration of ‘our humble notes, our finicky little references’ and their significance in showing 'the honest groping of our methods' and rational inquiry.
#TeamFootnote, right @kawulf.bsky.social?
[Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 72-4.]
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Spectacular. I must dig up my sticker printer paper soon. #TeamFootnote.
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My favourite #TeamFootnote item ever.
targuman.org/2012/01/04/n...
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As a Pratchett fan, I am definitely #teamfootnote 😁
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#TeamFootnote.
cc: @kathke.com @onslies.bsky.social
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IT WOULD BE THE ONE AND ONLY.*
* #teamfootnote
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😃😍 now officially a higher purpose to #TeamFootnote!
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The world is back on its axis, people.
I offer here a marvelous work, with a page that includes two gloriously apposite notes. #TeamFootnote
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Especially with all of the recent manufactured emphasis on a supposed lack of thoroughness in scholarship among academics. The more notes and presses mentioned, the better. #teamfootnote for the win!!
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Am formatting a piece for a pub that wants notes in Chicago but without place and publisher. I can go with the former, but object mightily to the latter. Mostly bc it's mostly uni presses and they should be in sparkly lights. #TeamFootnote
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Is there really still a need for discussion?
#teamfootnote
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#teamfootnote 🙋🏻♂️
(except when authors stage a dialogue with themselves in the main text and in footnotes)
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Did this platform discuss yet the important question of: endnotes or footnotes? #teamfootnote
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Thanks so much to @kathleen_belew & @madebyhistory for publishing my piece, my fav of 2019. "Armed with Footnotes"--I've never been so simultaneously serious and seriously nerdy. #teamfootnote #democracy
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