Journal of the History of Ideas

jhideas.bsky.social

19 October 2026 18:30

New in the JHI Blog’s forum on technology: Karl Peeter Valk writes that in the late Middle Ages, the clock became a potent metaphor not because of its mechanical perfection, but because of its imperfection and imprecision. @karlvalk.bsky.social

Howard Eissenstat

heissenstat.bsky.social

18 October 2026 21:08

Honestly, the "go back to Poland" are really the worst of all worlds: intrinsically racist, offering a never in a million universes option, AND providing Israel with every good reason to use them as the poster-children for what anti-Zionism is. It's the trifecta of self-defeating politics

Howard Eissenstat

heissenstat.bsky.social

18 October 2026 18:47

Aside from anything else, I have never really thought of the "Muslim Brotherhood" as "a terrorist organization," though, of course, it is such a big and diffuse movement that some components, descendants, etc. of it might be described as such.

Howard Eissenstat

heissenstat.bsky.social

18 October 2026 18:47

I also don't think "terrorist" has much use as an analytical frame for understanding any movement, but that is a different discussion.

Vindhya Buthpitiya

vindi-b.bsky.social

18 October 2026 13:41

Apocalypse Now and Then - Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination by Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... via @equatormag.bsky.social