Ben Stemper
@benst.bsky.social
PhD candidate in History of Ideas and Science at Uppsala University, looking at 19th century socialist eco-utopias/dystopias. Interested in history of anarchism and u/dystopianism more broadly, and specifically Joseph Déjacque.
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Very grateful for the opportunity to present a paper on Eugène Huzar's environmental dystopianism at the 15th London Graduate Conference in HPT
June 22, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Very grateful for the opportunity to present a paper on Eugène Huzar's environmental dystopianism at the 15th London Graduate Conference in HPT
Eugène Huzar walked so Graham Hancock could run
![He should haved added "and these four ages repeat themselves forever." The ancient Egyptians understood this so well they worshipped the Phoenix, of the old Phoenix's ashes, who burned himself, arose the new one. Further, who can prove that these four ages have not already been repeating themselves since time immemorial, who can prove to us that before the world's last embrace [by the serpent destroyer] humanity did not already [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:onw3zolyx6nofwysxrod7kh3/bafkreicsrtoghyu66wdarzthqpbfsdzlijhno2aagte3ltnqdizt33brn4@jpeg)
January 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Eugène Huzar walked so Graham Hancock could run
PhD application season (ouch) means I'm going down an Eugène Huzar rabbit hole, and did he know how to end a book.
![You closed this book without understanding it. Did I not tell you from the outset? [...] Civilization is not yet advanced enough, we are merely at the dawn of things, I say it again, this book is not written for this century, nor for you. Other times will come when humans, terrorized by the prodigies happening under its eyes, will understand it, and become terrified.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:onw3zolyx6nofwysxrod7kh3/bafkreidrxg3hlqdvsw74n7sg3rwhqavztuokzs2cmyw2j7l4pm4rzphnqy@jpeg)
December 21, 2023 at 11:59 AM
PhD application season (ouch) means I'm going down an Eugène Huzar rabbit hole, and did he know how to end a book.
Considering the news from COP28, I sometimes wish I had the optimism of a c19 catastrophist writer....
December 4, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Considering the news from COP28, I sometimes wish I had the optimism of a c19 catastrophist writer....
First, the location. The People's House was a key locale of the Social-Democratic movement. It served as a cooperative as well as as an educational institution, being home to meetings and speeches etc.
November 25, 2023 at 5:31 PM
First, the location. The People's House was a key locale of the Social-Democratic movement. It served as a cooperative as well as as an educational institution, being home to meetings and speeches etc.
In 1903, the gendarmerie in Esch reported on a speech by anarchist poet and playwright Pietro Gori, held in the People's House in the same city, and attended by 50-60 Italian workers. The visit is fascinating for a whole number of reasons beyond the person of Gori himself. /thread
November 25, 2023 at 5:30 PM
In 1903, the gendarmerie in Esch reported on a speech by anarchist poet and playwright Pietro Gori, held in the People's House in the same city, and attended by 50-60 Italian workers. The visit is fascinating for a whole number of reasons beyond the person of Gori himself. /thread
More anarchists in the Grand-Duchy? In 1902, police in the Southern Luxembourgish mining town of Esch compose a report on an "anonymous Italian, apparently from Geneva" who had given a radical talk in a local pub. They learn his identity soon after from an informant: the speaker was Luigi Bertoni.
November 9, 2023 at 4:57 PM
More anarchists in the Grand-Duchy? In 1902, police in the Southern Luxembourgish mining town of Esch compose a report on an "anonymous Italian, apparently from Geneva" who had given a radical talk in a local pub. They learn his identity soon after from an informant: the speaker was Luigi Bertoni.
There is something incredibly eerie about people in the mid-nineteenth century sounding the warning bells on deforestation and dangers of CO2-concentration in the atmosphere....
November 5, 2023 at 1:32 PM
There is something incredibly eerie about people in the mid-nineteenth century sounding the warning bells on deforestation and dangers of CO2-concentration in the atmosphere....
In today's episode of odd 19c guys, meet J. Tacon, a Francophone inhabitant of New Orleans in the 1850s, a mustard seller with a side-hustle as a full-time bookshop owner
October 26, 2023 at 11:57 AM
In today's episode of odd 19c guys, meet J. Tacon, a Francophone inhabitant of New Orleans in the 1850s, a mustard seller with a side-hustle as a full-time bookshop owner
When a boring-but-necessary research task turns out to be, well, necessary....
October 24, 2023 at 12:05 PM
When a boring-but-necessary research task turns out to be, well, necessary....
The gendarmerie obliges and sends its best and brightest to investigate. Finding the above picture, they confront the two remaining members of the group about it. Their excuse? [3/?]
October 17, 2023 at 5:30 PM
The gendarmerie obliges and sends its best and brightest to investigate. Finding the above picture, they confront the two remaining members of the group about it. Their excuse? [3/?]
He was later arrested in Berlin for having publicly celebrated the attempted murder of King Umberto I. After his arrest, the German police informed their Luxembourgish counterparts and insinuated they should probably check out if there were any more anarchists in Dudelange. [2/5]
October 17, 2023 at 5:29 PM
He was later arrested in Berlin for having publicly celebrated the attempted murder of King Umberto I. After his arrest, the German police informed their Luxembourgish counterparts and insinuated they should probably check out if there were any more anarchists in Dudelange. [2/5]
Anarchists in the Grand-Duchy? This photo shows a group of Italian anarchists gathered around a beer keg upon which they wrote "Evviva l'Anarchia," Dudelange, Luxembourg, early March 1900. One of them, Annibale Gasparinotto, was soon after expelled for having sung anarchist songs while drunk [1/5]🗃
![A group of eight men gathered around a beer keg which is inscribed with the words "Evviva l'Anarchia" [Long live Anarchy]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:onw3zolyx6nofwysxrod7kh3/bafkreiefdh6kq5prpouen65lufyyrcpdpf7ko4aup32hvyahpjpesddmoi@jpeg)
October 17, 2023 at 5:28 PM
Anarchists in the Grand-Duchy? This photo shows a group of Italian anarchists gathered around a beer keg upon which they wrote "Evviva l'Anarchia," Dudelange, Luxembourg, early March 1900. One of them, Annibale Gasparinotto, was soon after expelled for having sung anarchist songs while drunk [1/5]🗃
To end on a high note, here's another extract from the Sun article, mentioning Superintendent Matseil who, "delivering himself of a long homily on hand grenades and Communism, took one of the missiles home in his pocket."
October 12, 2023 at 11:59 AM
To end on a high note, here's another extract from the Sun article, mentioning Superintendent Matseil who, "delivering himself of a long homily on hand grenades and Communism, took one of the missiles home in his pocket."
Meet Pierre François Désiré Debuchy, perhaps the most French man to have ever lived. A French radical, in exile since the 1851 coup, he emigrated to New York around 1855 and lived with Joseph Déjacque at 17, White Street in the late 1850s.
October 12, 2023 at 11:46 AM
Meet Pierre François Désiré Debuchy, perhaps the most French man to have ever lived. A French radical, in exile since the 1851 coup, he emigrated to New York around 1855 and lived with Joseph Déjacque at 17, White Street in the late 1850s.
I quite like this brief speculation on the possibilities of alien life in an otherwise quite dry review of Humboldt's 3rd Volume of Cosmos in Le Républicain (11/01/1854), a French republican exile paper based in NYC.
October 10, 2023 at 1:24 PM
I quite like this brief speculation on the possibilities of alien life in an otherwise quite dry review of Humboldt's 3rd Volume of Cosmos in Le Républicain (11/01/1854), a French republican exile paper based in NYC.
Irony is dead and we have killed it.
October 10, 2023 at 12:50 PM
Irony is dead and we have killed it.