John Raimo
@johnraimo.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe (PhD., NYU). DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Mostly history, literature, & arts here; desperately trying not to post political content yet here we are now.
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John Raimo
@johnraimo.bsky.social
· Feb 27
1/3 Brief reintroduction for Bluesky. I’m a professional historian mostly focused on postwar Europe, cultural & intellectual history, the history of the book, reading and publishing just now in German, French, Italian, and Czech contexts. Also keenly interested in political history, visual arts ...
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Those interested in a potential roundtable on "Historical Research and Artificial Intelligence: Critical Reflections on Method, Power, and Possibility in International History" that @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and I are planning for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social 2026 - please send us your abstracts!
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Those interested in a potential roundtable on "Historical Research and Artificial Intelligence: Critical Reflections on Method, Power, and Possibility in International History" that @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and I are planning for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social 2026 - please send us your abstracts!
This is just too good. All of it. Even the title. (As someone who worked in publishing, I can assure you all that this was a case of the author absolutely insisting on it against the editors' judgment.) Just amazing. #JohnFetterman
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is just too good. All of it. Even the title. (As someone who worked in publishing, I can assure you all that this was a case of the author absolutely insisting on it against the editors' judgment.) Just amazing. #JohnFetterman
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Nazi-Looted Books Still Far from Home (@librarycongress.bsky.social, 2016; h/t @infinite-milos.bsky.social, #bookhistory, #skystorians): youtu.be/EgsBGDYFTjY?...
Nazi-Looted Books Still Far from Home
YouTube video by Library of Congress
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Nazi-Looted Books Still Far from Home (@librarycongress.bsky.social, 2016; h/t @infinite-milos.bsky.social, #bookhistory, #skystorians): youtu.be/EgsBGDYFTjY?...
The last ride of 'centrism' / the boomers; simply political malpractice of the highest order: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Senate advances funding bill to end longest US government shutdown in history
The amended package will still have to be passed by the House and sent to Trump for his signature, a process that could take days
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The last ride of 'centrism' / the boomers; simply political malpractice of the highest order: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The ignorance, irony, and twinned lack of taste and self-awareness here is enough to explode one's mind .... sfstandard.com/2025/11/08/s...
SF tech founders go to finishing school — and Garry Tan does not approve
The founders learned how to shake hands and bump caviar at Slow Ventures’ “Etiquette Finishing School.”
sfstandard.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The ignorance, irony, and twinned lack of taste and self-awareness here is enough to explode one's mind .... sfstandard.com/2025/11/08/s...
Roger-Yves Roche autour d'Yves Debraine (En attendant Nadeau ; #skystorians) : www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/10/27/l...
De Cocteau à Simenon, d'Yves Debraine : Le photographe et ses écrivains - En attendant Nadeau
Photographe franco-suisse, Yves Debraine a tiré le portrait d’écrivains réputés, tels Georges Simenon, John le Carré ou encore Albert Cohen.
www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Roger-Yves Roche autour d'Yves Debraine (En attendant Nadeau ; #skystorians) : www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/10/27/l...
Steven Heller, Mussolini’s Failed Purple Prose (PRINT Magazine; #bookhistory, #skystorians): www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
The Daily Heller: Mussolini's Failed Purple Prose – PRINT Magazine
The sordid tale of 'The Cardinal’s Mistress.'
www.printmag.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Steven Heller, Mussolini’s Failed Purple Prose (PRINT Magazine; #bookhistory, #skystorians): www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
Essential reading for educators as well as historians of reading (PDF): Effective Reading Instruction in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, World Bank, and @unicef.org) documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Essential reading for educators as well as historians of reading (PDF): Effective Reading Instruction in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, World Bank, and @unicef.org) documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...
Jacques Roubaud, des chiffres et des vers (@franceculture.fr) : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Jacques Roubaud, des chiffres et des vers : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture
Une nuit d'archives en forme d’hommage au poète et mathématicien Jacques Roubaud, disparu en 2024. Elles retracent comment ce membre de l'Oulipo, passionné de poésie japonaise, a fait jaillir une oeuv...
www.radiofrance.fr
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Jacques Roubaud, des chiffres et des vers (@franceculture.fr) : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Who doesn't adore Wikipedia? As regards powerful figures, sometimes documentation alone is wonderful. Cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Ferry
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Who doesn't adore Wikipedia? As regards powerful figures, sometimes documentation alone is wonderful. Cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Ferry
Gottfried Benn und Nele Benn, Briefwechsel 1930–1956 (Holger Hof und Stephan Kraft, Hrsg. @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535952...
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Gottfried Benn und Nele Benn, Briefwechsel 1930–1956 (Holger Hof und Stephan Kraft, Hrsg. @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535952...
This looks lovely: Friedrich Hölderlin and André Butzer, Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons (Taschen, 2025): www.taschen.com/en/books/art...
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This looks lovely: Friedrich Hölderlin and André Butzer, Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons (Taschen, 2025): www.taschen.com/en/books/art...
Georges Perec et Eugen Helmlé, La Machine (Valentin Decoppet et Camille Bloomfield, trans. @editionsduseuil.bsky.social, 2025) www.seuil.com/ouvrage/la-m...
Littérature étrangère
La Machine, Georges Perec, Eugen Helmlé, Valentin Decoppet, Camille Bloomfield : Georges Perec et son ami Eugen Helmlé, traducteur allemand des Choses et d...
www.seuil.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Georges Perec et Eugen Helmlé, La Machine (Valentin Decoppet et Camille Bloomfield, trans. @editionsduseuil.bsky.social, 2025) www.seuil.com/ouvrage/la-m...
Zack Hatfield, Is Photography Yorgos Lanthimos’s True Calling? (Aperture; #photography): aperture.org/editorial/is...
Is Photography Yorgos Lanthimos’s True Calling?
The director of Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, and Bugonia, discusses his fledgling career as a maker of dreamy, category-defying photobooks.
aperture.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Zack Hatfield, Is Photography Yorgos Lanthimos’s True Calling? (Aperture; #photography): aperture.org/editorial/is...
Taking the weekend off from social media, partly to spend a bit more time working through Laura Marling's catalogue (which I'm nearly embarrassed to discover so belated, she's a genius): youtu.be/dD7EHzrfrl0?...
Blackberry Stone
YouTube video by Laura Marling - Topic
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Taking the weekend off from social media, partly to spend a bit more time working through Laura Marling's catalogue (which I'm nearly embarrassed to discover so belated, she's a genius): youtu.be/dD7EHzrfrl0?...
Vu à la librairie Tschann (pour @anthonyglinoer.bsky.social ainsi que @stuartelden.bsky.social) ....
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Vu à la librairie Tschann (pour @anthonyglinoer.bsky.social ainsi que @stuartelden.bsky.social) ....
Albert Mobilio on "Man Ray: When Objects Dream" (until 1 Feb. 2026) at the @metmuseum.org (4Columns): 4columns.org/mobilio-albe...
Man Ray
4columns.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Albert Mobilio on "Man Ray: When Objects Dream" (until 1 Feb. 2026) at the @metmuseum.org (4Columns): 4columns.org/mobilio-albe...
Steven Heller, Roy Kuhlman’s Narrative Abstraction (PRINT Magazine, @fantagraphics.bsky.social; #bookhistory): www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
The Daily Heller: Roy Kuhlman's Narrative Abstraction – PRINT Magazine
Kuhlman's inspired book covers were an embodiment of Midcentury form and style.
www.printmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Steven Heller, Roy Kuhlman’s Narrative Abstraction (PRINT Magazine, @fantagraphics.bsky.social; #bookhistory): www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
En gros, Sarkozy a été condamné à vivre comme un étudiant à l'université .... www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers...
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
En gros, Sarkozy a été condamné à vivre comme un étudiant à l'université .... www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers...
Really wonderful work in general (however bleak) that's worth following, #skystorians!
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Really wonderful work in general (however bleak) that's worth following, #skystorians!
Gift link: Ivan Nechepurenko with visuals by Nanna Heitmann, "Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books" (New York Times; #bookhistory) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Gift link: Ivan Nechepurenko with visuals by Nanna Heitmann, "Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books" (New York Times; #bookhistory) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
Lucas Thompson, Hooked on Sonics (@publicdomainrev.bsky.social; #skystorians): publicdomainreview.org/essay/scienc...
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
Of all the senses cultivated throughout the 19th century, it was the sense of hearing that experienced the most dramatic transformation, as the science of sound underwent rapid advancement. Lucas Thom...
publicdomainreview.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Lucas Thompson, Hooked on Sonics (@publicdomainrev.bsky.social; #skystorians): publicdomainreview.org/essay/scienc...
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Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unionization-of-central-europe/
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unionization-of-central-europe/
This is personal now (h/t @infinite-milos.bsky.social):
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This is personal now (h/t @infinite-milos.bsky.social):
Love & War: Lynsey Addario on the five stories that defined her career (@theguardian.com; #skystorians) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Love & War: From frontlines to family life. Pulitzer-winning conflict photographer Lynsey Addario on the five stories that defined her career
Pulitzer-winning conflict photographer Lynsey Addario on the five stories that defined her career
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Love & War: Lynsey Addario on the five stories that defined her career (@theguardian.com; #skystorians) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...