jhokjournal.bsky.social
@jhokjournal.bsky.social
Open Access Journal (Open Journals) for the History of Knowledge. Based in Utrecht, but thoroughly international.
https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/index
https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/index
Lund University is promoting new engagement opportunities for history of knowledge scholars. Want to know more? See on their webpage:
🍃 Spring Seminar Series: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/02/03/s...
🌞 Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge: newhistoryofknowledge.com/advisory-boa...
🍃 Spring Seminar Series: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/02/03/s...
🌞 Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge: newhistoryofknowledge.com/advisory-boa...
Spring seminar series @LUCK
13 February, 12:00–13:00 (LUX:A331) Reading seminar: Vera Keller et al., “Projects in the History of Knowledge”, Journal for the History of Knowledge (2025) Introduction: Christ…
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February 11, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Lund University is promoting new engagement opportunities for history of knowledge scholars. Want to know more? See on their webpage:
🍃 Spring Seminar Series: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/02/03/s...
🌞 Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge: newhistoryofknowledge.com/advisory-boa...
🍃 Spring Seminar Series: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/02/03/s...
🌞 Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge: newhistoryofknowledge.com/advisory-boa...
📚CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The Journal for the History of Knowledge is now receiving proposals for the Special Issue 2028. The submission deadline is 1 May 2026. All information is available on our website: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...
February 4, 2026 at 12:03 PM
📚CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The Journal for the History of Knowledge is now receiving proposals for the Special Issue 2028. The submission deadline is 1 May 2026. All information is available on our website: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...
"Whenever you use ChatGPT, every text or image that it produces has emerged from a process of gradually correcting errors in predicting sequences of words. In a very real sense, error...is redefining language itself."
✍️ Our latest blog post from @alexcampolo.bsky.social
✍️ Our latest blog post from @alexcampolo.bsky.social
Why We Should Take Errors Seriously in the Age of AI
Alexander Campolo explores how the concept of error has changed throughout history, right up to the current age of artifical intelligence.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 28, 2026 at 10:18 AM
"Whenever you use ChatGPT, every text or image that it produces has emerged from a process of gradually correcting errors in predicting sequences of words. In a very real sense, error...is redefining language itself."
✍️ Our latest blog post from @alexcampolo.bsky.social
✍️ Our latest blog post from @alexcampolo.bsky.social
✍️ New on the JHoK blog:
@alexcampolo.bsky.social on why we should take errors seriously in the age of AI
@alexcampolo.bsky.social on why we should take errors seriously in the age of AI
Why We Should Take Errors Seriously in the Age of AI
Alexander Campolo explores how the concept of error has changed throughout history, right up to the current age of artifical intelligence.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 27, 2026 at 8:44 AM
✍️ New on the JHoK blog:
@alexcampolo.bsky.social on why we should take errors seriously in the age of AI
@alexcampolo.bsky.social on why we should take errors seriously in the age of AI
The JHoK 2025 special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" is now out in full!
The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process.
📖 Happy reading!
1/8
The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process.
📖 Happy reading!
1/8
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
The JHoK 2025 special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" is now out in full!
The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process.
📖 Happy reading!
1/8
The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process.
📖 Happy reading!
1/8
✍️ New on the JHoK blog:
Vera Keller, @tedmccormick.bsky.social & @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflect on their recent special issue and what this early 19th-century print tells us about the enduring features of projecting.
Vera Keller, @tedmccormick.bsky.social & @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflect on their recent special issue and what this early 19th-century print tells us about the enduring features of projecting.
Hatching Schemes in The School of Projects
The guest editors of 2025’s special issue on projects in the history of knowledge explore what an early 19th-century print tells us about the enduring features of projecting.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 16, 2026 at 9:55 AM
✍️ New on the JHoK blog:
Vera Keller, @tedmccormick.bsky.social & @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflect on their recent special issue and what this early 19th-century print tells us about the enduring features of projecting.
Vera Keller, @tedmccormick.bsky.social & @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflect on their recent special issue and what this early 19th-century print tells us about the enduring features of projecting.
📣 We are pleased to announce the selection of the 2027 Special Issue, "The Making of Colonial Knowledge and its Afterlives in Dutch Universities", with guest editors Larissa Schulte Nordholt and Ligia Giay.
📚 Have a peek at the Issue's abstract: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
📚 Have a peek at the Issue's abstract: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
Selection of 2027 Special Issue
| Journal for the History of Knowledge
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January 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
📣 We are pleased to announce the selection of the 2027 Special Issue, "The Making of Colonial Knowledge and its Afterlives in Dutch Universities", with guest editors Larissa Schulte Nordholt and Ligia Giay.
📚 Have a peek at the Issue's abstract: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
📚 Have a peek at the Issue's abstract: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
Knowledge, power or economic resources: what paves the way for the "public good"? Professor William Cavert's Special Issue article investigates "how natural knowledge could be harnessed by the state and applied to productivity" in 18th century England: journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view....
December 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Knowledge, power or economic resources: what paves the way for the "public good"? Professor William Cavert's Special Issue article investigates "how natural knowledge could be harnessed by the state and applied to productivity" in 18th century England: journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view....
"For Grew, and for his contemporaries...that which could not be counted (joy? community? stress? virtue? love?) mattered as little as the punishments which would be required to force people to improve themselves."
Our latest blog post from @williamcavert.bsky.social 👇
Our latest blog post from @williamcavert.bsky.social 👇
The Economy versus the People in Eighteenth-Century England
When did discussions of “the economy” begin, and why? William Cavert takes us to 18th-century England to explore the “improvement” literature of the time.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"For Grew, and for his contemporaries...that which could not be counted (joy? community? stress? virtue? love?) mattered as little as the punishments which would be required to force people to improve themselves."
Our latest blog post from @williamcavert.bsky.social 👇
Our latest blog post from @williamcavert.bsky.social 👇
When did discussions of “the economy” begin, and why?
In our latest blog post @williamcavert.bsky.social takes us to 18th-century England to explore the "improvement" literature of the time👇
In our latest blog post @williamcavert.bsky.social takes us to 18th-century England to explore the "improvement" literature of the time👇
The Economy versus the People in Eighteenth-Century England
When did discussions of “the economy” begin, and why? William Cavert takes us to 18th-century England to explore the “improvement” literature of the time.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
When did discussions of “the economy” begin, and why?
In our latest blog post @williamcavert.bsky.social takes us to 18th-century England to explore the "improvement" literature of the time👇
In our latest blog post @williamcavert.bsky.social takes us to 18th-century England to explore the "improvement" literature of the time👇
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"The Improvement Police," my article on a scheme, c. 1700, to force people to use new scientific knowledge to make their government rich, is out in a fantastic issue on Projects, edited by @tedmccormick.bsky.social, Vera Keller, and Kelly Whitmer.
journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
View of The Improvement Police
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December 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"The Improvement Police," my article on a scheme, c. 1700, to force people to use new scientific knowledge to make their government rich, is out in a fantastic issue on Projects, edited by @tedmccormick.bsky.social, Vera Keller, and Kelly Whitmer.
journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
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I have a new paper out in @jhokjournal.bsky.social - "Loss: A notion of error in machine learning." It attempts to draw some wider historical comparisons than are perhaps usual. I would love to know what you think. journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I have a new paper out in @jhokjournal.bsky.social - "Loss: A notion of error in machine learning." It attempts to draw some wider historical comparisons than are perhaps usual. I would love to know what you think. journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
New blog post!
"Perfectly crystalline, geometric, and apparently rational, this tiny object radiates power captured from the mighty rivers dammed throughout the Pacific Northwest and in the streams of capital pouring out of the nation’s financial center."
Vera Keller on Projects & Great Designs 👇
"Perfectly crystalline, geometric, and apparently rational, this tiny object radiates power captured from the mighty rivers dammed throughout the Pacific Northwest and in the streams of capital pouring out of the nation’s financial center."
Vera Keller on Projects & Great Designs 👇
The Paper Power of Projects: Great Designs and Making America “Great” Again
Like the vintage paperweight that sits on her desk, historiographical “Great Designs” are entombed in the amber of a particular moment, writes Vera Keller.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
New blog post!
"Perfectly crystalline, geometric, and apparently rational, this tiny object radiates power captured from the mighty rivers dammed throughout the Pacific Northwest and in the streams of capital pouring out of the nation’s financial center."
Vera Keller on Projects & Great Designs 👇
"Perfectly crystalline, geometric, and apparently rational, this tiny object radiates power captured from the mighty rivers dammed throughout the Pacific Northwest and in the streams of capital pouring out of the nation’s financial center."
Vera Keller on Projects & Great Designs 👇
"While established systems safeguard journal articles, books, and research data, no comparable infrastructures exist for scholarly blogs. As a result, an essential part of academic communication risks slipping out of the historical record..."
The case for preserving scholarly blogs 👇
The case for preserving scholarly blogs 👇
The case for preserving scholarly blogs - Impact of Social Sciences
Poor preservation threatens the scholarly blogging ecosystem. What makes scholarly blogs sustainable and how can these practices be promoted?
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December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"While established systems safeguard journal articles, books, and research data, no comparable infrastructures exist for scholarly blogs. As a result, an essential part of academic communication risks slipping out of the historical record..."
The case for preserving scholarly blogs 👇
The case for preserving scholarly blogs 👇
"Instead of the projector, perhaps the time has now come to blame projecting itself — or at least to approach it more critically."
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflects on the ubiquitous category of the "project" in today's world, and what we can learn from attitudes in 18th-century Germany.
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflects on the ubiquitous category of the "project" in today's world, and what we can learn from attitudes in 18th-century Germany.
What Makes a Project Good or Bad? Lessons from Early Eighteenth-Century Germany
Anyone who has ever written an academic project proposal will recognise the demands in this early 18th-century German work, writes Kelly J. Whitmer.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"Instead of the projector, perhaps the time has now come to blame projecting itself — or at least to approach it more critically."
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflects on the ubiquitous category of the "project" in today's world, and what we can learn from attitudes in 18th-century Germany.
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflects on the ubiquitous category of the "project" in today's world, and what we can learn from attitudes in 18th-century Germany.
Reposted by jhokjournal.bsky.social
A very engaging read!
New blog post alert!
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social tell us what we can learn from attitudes towards projects and 'project-making' in the 18th-century German lands
#histknow
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social tell us what we can learn from attitudes towards projects and 'project-making' in the 18th-century German lands
#histknow
What Makes a Project Good or Bad? Lessons from Early Eighteenth-Century Germany
Anyone who has ever written an academic project proposal will recognise the demands in this early 18th-century German work, writes Kelly J. Whitmer.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A very engaging read!
New blog post alert!
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social tell us what we can learn from attitudes towards projects and 'project-making' in the 18th-century German lands
#histknow
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social tell us what we can learn from attitudes towards projects and 'project-making' in the 18th-century German lands
#histknow
What Makes a Project Good or Bad? Lessons from Early Eighteenth-Century Germany
Anyone who has ever written an academic project proposal will recognise the demands in this early 18th-century German work, writes Kelly J. Whitmer.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
New blog post alert!
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social tell us what we can learn from attitudes towards projects and 'project-making' in the 18th-century German lands
#histknow
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social tell us what we can learn from attitudes towards projects and 'project-making' in the 18th-century German lands
#histknow
In the early 18th century, German-speaking planners placed work as a precondition for helping young people reach happiness. What role could institutions play to facilitate this pursuit? Read more from Professor Kelly Whitmer's full Special Issue article: journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
In the early 18th century, German-speaking planners placed work as a precondition for helping young people reach happiness. What role could institutions play to facilitate this pursuit? Read more from Professor Kelly Whitmer's full Special Issue article: journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
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"Researching unrealized projects of the past like Atlantropa and the Panatomic Canal is far from trivial. Contrary to what a snooty historian once told me at a conference, it is not true that 'any one of us fools can study the history of failed projects!' "
Read more in our latest blog post👇
Read more in our latest blog post👇
From Chance Encounters to Fresh Insights: Serendipity at Work in Historical Research
Christine Keiner on how a chance find in Panama inspired her latest research on the unrealised “Panatomic Canal”.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"Researching unrealized projects of the past like Atlantropa and the Panatomic Canal is far from trivial. Contrary to what a snooty historian once told me at a conference, it is not true that 'any one of us fools can study the history of failed projects!' "
Read more in our latest blog post👇
Read more in our latest blog post👇
"Researching unrealized projects of the past like Atlantropa and the Panatomic Canal is far from trivial. Contrary to what a snooty historian once told me at a conference, it is not true that 'any one of us fools can study the history of failed projects!' "
Read more in our latest blog post👇
Read more in our latest blog post👇
From Chance Encounters to Fresh Insights: Serendipity at Work in Historical Research
Christine Keiner on how a chance find in Panama inspired her latest research on the unrealised “Panatomic Canal”.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"Researching unrealized projects of the past like Atlantropa and the Panatomic Canal is far from trivial. Contrary to what a snooty historian once told me at a conference, it is not true that 'any one of us fools can study the history of failed projects!' "
Read more in our latest blog post👇
Read more in our latest blog post👇
New blog post alert!
Christine Keiner writes about how a chance find in Panama inspired her recent research on the so-called "Panatomic Canal".
Christine Keiner writes about how a chance find in Panama inspired her recent research on the so-called "Panatomic Canal".
From Chance Encounters to Fresh Insights: Serendipity at Work in Historical Research
Christine Keiner on how a chance purchase from Panama inspired her latest research on the unrealised “Panatomic Canal”.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
New blog post alert!
Christine Keiner writes about how a chance find in Panama inspired her recent research on the so-called "Panatomic Canal".
Christine Keiner writes about how a chance find in Panama inspired her recent research on the so-called "Panatomic Canal".
How did Peaceful Nuclear Explosives (PNEs) inspire infrastructure engineering during the Cold War, and how did they interact with the knowledge of indigenous communities in Panama? Check out Professor Christine Keiner's insightful Special Issue article: journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view....
October 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
How did Peaceful Nuclear Explosives (PNEs) inspire infrastructure engineering during the Cold War, and how did they interact with the knowledge of indigenous communities in Panama? Check out Professor Christine Keiner's insightful Special Issue article: journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view....
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"As cities around the world grapple with ways to mitigate the effects of our own climate crisis, we will face new challenges, not least learning how to bring the ambitions our moment demands down to the ground"
Keith Pluymers reflects on the quiet, everyday tasks that have long kept cities running
Keith Pluymers reflects on the quiet, everyday tasks that have long kept cities running
The Devil is in the Details: Fantastic Schemes and the Quiet Champions of Urban Infrastructure
Keith Pluymers on the quiet heroes working to keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
"As cities around the world grapple with ways to mitigate the effects of our own climate crisis, we will face new challenges, not least learning how to bring the ambitions our moment demands down to the ground"
Keith Pluymers reflects on the quiet, everyday tasks that have long kept cities running
Keith Pluymers reflects on the quiet, everyday tasks that have long kept cities running
"As cities around the world grapple with ways to mitigate the effects of our own climate crisis, we will face new challenges, not least learning how to bring the ambitions our moment demands down to the ground"
Keith Pluymers reflects on the quiet, everyday tasks that have long kept cities running
Keith Pluymers reflects on the quiet, everyday tasks that have long kept cities running
The Devil is in the Details: Fantastic Schemes and the Quiet Champions of Urban Infrastructure
Keith Pluymers on the quiet heroes working to keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
"As cities around the world grapple with ways to mitigate the effects of our own climate crisis, we will face new challenges, not least learning how to bring the ambitions our moment demands down to the ground"
Keith Pluymers reflects on the quiet, everyday tasks that have long kept cities running
Keith Pluymers reflects on the quiet, everyday tasks that have long kept cities running
Reposted by jhokjournal.bsky.social
New blog post alert!
Keith Pluymers writes about the quiet heroes who helped keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.
Keith Pluymers writes about the quiet heroes who helped keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.
The Devil is in the Details: Fantastic Schemes and the Quiet Champions of Urban Infrastructure
Keith Pluymers on the quiet heroes working to keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New blog post alert!
Keith Pluymers writes about the quiet heroes who helped keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.
Keith Pluymers writes about the quiet heroes who helped keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.