Robert Heinze
@rheinze.myatproto.social
Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
hist. of media & infrastructure
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hist. of media & infrastructure
Oskar Negt-pilled
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
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Robert Heinze
@rheinze.myatproto.social
· Nov 12
I mad a starter pack for African Studies. Let me know who else should be in here!
There are instances when I’m just glad to live in France, where reading in transit is just the most normal thing to do and no one would make creepshots of you to blast you as „performative“ because they can’t imagine people just enjoying a book.
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
There are instances when I’m just glad to live in France, where reading in transit is just the most normal thing to do and no one would make creepshots of you to blast you as „performative“ because they can’t imagine people just enjoying a book.
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Kommenden Montag probiere ich in der Ringvorlesung Kulturanalyse jetzt! (moderiert von @bildoperationen.bsky.social) aus, ob der histor. Blick nicht auf den Faschismus sondern auf das Nachdenken über den Faschismus hilfreich für die Gegenwartsanalyse ist – ich freue mich auf die Diskussionen.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Kommenden Montag probiere ich in der Ringvorlesung Kulturanalyse jetzt! (moderiert von @bildoperationen.bsky.social) aus, ob der histor. Blick nicht auf den Faschismus sondern auf das Nachdenken über den Faschismus hilfreich für die Gegenwartsanalyse ist – ich freue mich auf die Diskussionen.
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Fun fact: at the end of his career (and life), Malinowski was embarking on the study of the concept of 'Freedom'. He saw nationalism as the chief obstacle to human freedom. This is the tentative argument structure; pay attention to the paragraph at the bottom of the page.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Fun fact: at the end of his career (and life), Malinowski was embarking on the study of the concept of 'Freedom'. He saw nationalism as the chief obstacle to human freedom. This is the tentative argument structure; pay attention to the paragraph at the bottom of the page.
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Reading the supposedly devastating report into BBC bias
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reading the supposedly devastating report into BBC bias
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Leave it to a a handful of Senate Democrats to cave in a moment where they held actual political power, leverage, had momentum, when the base finally felt something akin of hope and excitement again. Truly stunning.
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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liebe bluesky-gemeinde, kennt ihr einführungs- oder überblicksliteratur, standardwerke etc. zum thema rechte literatur in westdeutschland der nachkriegszeit (1945-1960)?
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
liebe bluesky-gemeinde, kennt ihr einführungs- oder überblicksliteratur, standardwerke etc. zum thema rechte literatur in westdeutschland der nachkriegszeit (1945-1960)?
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
David Anderson
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
David Anderson
Not sure if he’s still touring btw but if you see Shabaka coming to town, go. Whatever you think of flutes (and I know most of us are all little Adornos in that regard), he will blow. your. mind. And also educate you about the different kinds of flutes he’s playing around with.
Also his jazz flute era is brilliant! (Though I have to say this only really became apparent to me after I saw an arguably even more brilliant performance by Shabaka Hutchings)
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Not sure if he’s still touring btw but if you see Shabaka coming to town, go. Whatever you think of flutes (and I know most of us are all little Adornos in that regard), he will blow. your. mind. And also educate you about the different kinds of flutes he’s playing around with.
I…did not know that
One of the few people acquitted at Nuremberg was the first Nazi Minister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht - whose full name was implausibly Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht because his parents were fans of the American abolitionist.
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I…did not know that
Ok this might be the first and only time I admit that colonialism has led to something good
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Ok this might be the first and only time I admit that colonialism has led to something good
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lots of snark about Andre 3000's jazz flute era but it's like Herbie Hancock's robot voice lectures: when you've given this much to music you get to do what you want. that's just the rules
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
lots of snark about Andre 3000's jazz flute era but it's like Herbie Hancock's robot voice lectures: when you've given this much to music you get to do what you want. that's just the rules
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Grausige Geschichte über die hunderttausenden von Menschen, die in Scamming Compounds versklavt werden. Es handelt sich um ganze Volkswirtschaften, die auf Internetbetrug beruhen.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs
If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Grausige Geschichte über die hunderttausenden von Menschen, die in Scamming Compounds versklavt werden. Es handelt sich um ganze Volkswirtschaften, die auf Internetbetrug beruhen.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
No one criticizes postcolonial studies like the people seen as its main proponents. (cf. also Spivak)
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
No one criticizes postcolonial studies like the people seen as its main proponents. (cf. also Spivak)
It makes me unbelievably angry that they are now colonising Afrofuturism.
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
It makes me unbelievably angry that they are now colonising Afrofuturism.
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"...in Deutschland aber begann mit dem amerikanischen Kulturimperialismus nicht die Barbarei, sondern die Zivilisation. In diesem Land ist jede weitere Filiale der McDonald-Hamburgerkette eine neue Insel der Gastfreundschaft und eine erfreuliche Bereicherung der Eßkultur."
- Wolfgang Pohrt
- Wolfgang Pohrt
McFreiheit
Quelle: Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung - Werner Sygnecki - Nr. 17
Quelle: Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung - Werner Sygnecki - Nr. 17
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"...in Deutschland aber begann mit dem amerikanischen Kulturimperialismus nicht die Barbarei, sondern die Zivilisation. In diesem Land ist jede weitere Filiale der McDonald-Hamburgerkette eine neue Insel der Gastfreundschaft und eine erfreuliche Bereicherung der Eßkultur."
- Wolfgang Pohrt
- Wolfgang Pohrt
Da würd ich mich als Autor dermaßen aufregen
Die SZ hat jetzt wohl ein KI-Tool auf ihrer Seite, um die eigenen Artikel zusammenfassen zu lassen und ich frage mich, warum das nicht die Autor*innen im Teaser selbst machen?
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Da würd ich mich als Autor dermaßen aufregen
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McFreiheit
Quelle: Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung - Werner Sygnecki - Nr. 17
Quelle: Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung - Werner Sygnecki - Nr. 17
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
McFreiheit
Quelle: Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung - Werner Sygnecki - Nr. 17
Quelle: Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung - Werner Sygnecki - Nr. 17
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![Zohran text:
"The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair [verweilen: a reference to Goethe’s Faust], to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed."
—Walter Benjamin, "On the Concept of History"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreih7sdkpsszpqppnq2hwsbjpfln5uhunb7xu4bsutf2uxgkkysjbdm@jpeg)
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Der Witz an der Sache ist doch, dass ein Helmut Schmidt-Klon Kanzler ist. Wer Schmidtschnautze noch als Kanzler & Post-Politiker bewusst erlebt hat, kann die Ähnlichkeiten zu Bierdeckelfritz easypiecy erkennen: Manager-Habitus als Wirtschaftskompetenz-Simulation; übersteigertes Selbstbewusstsein,
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Der Witz an der Sache ist doch, dass ein Helmut Schmidt-Klon Kanzler ist. Wer Schmidtschnautze noch als Kanzler & Post-Politiker bewusst erlebt hat, kann die Ähnlichkeiten zu Bierdeckelfritz easypiecy erkennen: Manager-Habitus als Wirtschaftskompetenz-Simulation; übersteigertes Selbstbewusstsein,
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Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
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WHAT'S up YouTube, it's your boy Bartleby the Scrivener here, coming at you for another day of the I Would Prefer Not To challenge. Be sure to SMASH that subscribe button and hit that bell so you don't miss a single video. If you saw last week's video, you'll know I am now SLEEPING in the office.
Bartleby the Scrivener logging on for another day of bullshit
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
WHAT'S up YouTube, it's your boy Bartleby the Scrivener here, coming at you for another day of the I Would Prefer Not To challenge. Be sure to SMASH that subscribe button and hit that bell so you don't miss a single video. If you saw last week's video, you'll know I am now SLEEPING in the office.
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WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...