Dr. Sanjana Rajagopal
@astrangecharm.bsky.social
28. Philosophy PhD from Fordham. Arendt scholar. Notoriously obsessed with Succession. Always traveling someplace new or reading some dense tome.
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More than 100 years on from the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, our new film, EVEREST REVISITED, uses their loss as the jumping off point for a wider look at the hidden histories of #Everest and what it means to visitors and Nepalis today.
Watch it now ➡ youtu.be/iSPUPr6OeTY?...
Watch it now ➡ youtu.be/iSPUPr6OeTY?...
July 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
More than 100 years on from the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, our new film, EVEREST REVISITED, uses their loss as the jumping off point for a wider look at the hidden histories of #Everest and what it means to visitors and Nepalis today.
Watch it now ➡ youtu.be/iSPUPr6OeTY?...
Watch it now ➡ youtu.be/iSPUPr6OeTY?...
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Thank you for featuring my book review in this!
Here it is, my 229th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 229
Published on June 15, 2025
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June 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thank you for featuring my book review in this!
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“though she was able to pick out what she thought were the key features of solidarity… [Arendt] applied these criteria selectively when assessing different political situations” - @astrangecharm.bsky.social @susih.bsky.social #USIH s-usih.org/2025/06/sanj...
Sanjana Rajagopal on David D. Kim’s *Arendt’s Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World* | Society for US Intellectual History
In the last pages of Arendt’s Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World, David D. Kim distills the concept of solidarity down to its most important aim: the widening of the horizon of...
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June 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“though she was able to pick out what she thought were the key features of solidarity… [Arendt] applied these criteria selectively when assessing different political situations” - @astrangecharm.bsky.social @susih.bsky.social #USIH s-usih.org/2025/06/sanj...
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growing list of scholars I’ve dragged to Hard Rock at academic conferences 🫶🏼 @astrangecharm.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
growing list of scholars I’ve dragged to Hard Rock at academic conferences 🫶🏼 @astrangecharm.bsky.social
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two hardcover copies on the @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social table, which I stumbled across trying to say hi to @astrangecharm.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social #aha25
January 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
two hardcover copies on the @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social table, which I stumbled across trying to say hi to @astrangecharm.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social #aha25
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Odyssey movie coming in 2026? From Christopher Nolan?
New reason to live unlocked.
New reason to live unlocked.
December 24, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Odyssey movie coming in 2026? From Christopher Nolan?
New reason to live unlocked.
New reason to live unlocked.
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Another massacre by the Israelis in Khan Younis. I saw the videos and I think of the survey of Gazan children, the one that says that most of them expect death. Some of them just did, as the day before, as tomorrow. Israel continues its genocide, now in its 14th month, live-streamed for all to see.
December 15, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Another massacre by the Israelis in Khan Younis. I saw the videos and I think of the survey of Gazan children, the one that says that most of them expect death. Some of them just did, as the day before, as tomorrow. Israel continues its genocide, now in its 14th month, live-streamed for all to see.
My latest fixation is Oppenheimer and the history of quantum physics in the 20th c.
And true to my bio, this is definitely a dense tome coming in at over 700 pages
And true to my bio, this is definitely a dense tome coming in at over 700 pages
December 16, 2024 at 3:26 AM
My latest fixation is Oppenheimer and the history of quantum physics in the 20th c.
And true to my bio, this is definitely a dense tome coming in at over 700 pages
And true to my bio, this is definitely a dense tome coming in at over 700 pages
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Loïe Fuller dancing at Folies-Bergère in 1890s as sculpted by Francois-Rupert Carabin. Carabin did another study of her serpentine dance in "Six Sculptures."
December 12, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Loïe Fuller dancing at Folies-Bergère in 1890s as sculpted by Francois-Rupert Carabin. Carabin did another study of her serpentine dance in "Six Sculptures."
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Got my ticket to see Kieran's Broadway play this March! Wish I could see Snook in Dorian Gray a second time but tickets are so expensive.
December 11, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Got my ticket to see Kieran's Broadway play this March! Wish I could see Snook in Dorian Gray a second time but tickets are so expensive.
My mini pink tree is up!
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 AM
My mini pink tree is up!
Can’t believe I was here a couple days ago and now I’m back in Jersey and still sick
December 6, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Can’t believe I was here a couple days ago and now I’m back in Jersey and still sick
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I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
December 4, 2024 at 9:23 AM
I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
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Wrapped this, wrapped that. What about spending some time building rapport?
December 5, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Wrapped this, wrapped that. What about spending some time building rapport?
I thank Nicholas in my dissertation acknowledgements for the Succession score being the backdrop to all my writing sessions!
I know I spent a lot of time this year writing because Nicholas Britell left me a lil video 🫶🏼
December 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM
I thank Nicholas in my dissertation acknowledgements for the Succession score being the backdrop to all my writing sessions!
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"What is most difficult is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it."
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
December 4, 2024 at 3:29 PM
"What is most difficult is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it."
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
Yay! Have been anticipating this collection for a while. I’m going to try and make it!
Next Wednesday night December 11th at The Strand Bookstore in NYC!
Join me and the brilliant Heather Clark to celebrate the publication of What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt!
7pm
Come say hi!
Tickets here: www.strandbooks.com/what-remains...
Join me and the brilliant Heather Clark to celebrate the publication of What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt!
7pm
Come say hi!
Tickets here: www.strandbooks.com/what-remains...
December 4, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Yay! Have been anticipating this collection for a while. I’m going to try and make it!
Poland trip has come to an end. Flying back to the US today. One day I really want to live in Europe.
December 2, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Poland trip has come to an end. Flying back to the US today. One day I really want to live in Europe.
Stunning sunrise here in Gdansk en route to the train station in Warsaw.
December 1, 2024 at 6:52 AM
Stunning sunrise here in Gdansk en route to the train station in Warsaw.
Found myself thinking today that it’s odd Arendt never wrote about the Polish Solidarity movement only to quickly remember she tragically passed before getting to see it unfold! No doubt it would have fascinated her as much as the Hungarian uprising of 1956.
December 1, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Found myself thinking today that it’s odd Arendt never wrote about the Polish Solidarity movement only to quickly remember she tragically passed before getting to see it unfold! No doubt it would have fascinated her as much as the Hungarian uprising of 1956.