Version 4.0 of the Ferdinand Tönnies Digital Letter Edition is now online! A new feature: commentaries contextualising selected letters. More will follow as work progresses. The edition now comprises 2,077 letters. www.ftbe.de #history #sociology #OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities

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grateful I had the foresight to marry a “I’d rather make toast with a Bic lighter than own a toaster with a touchscreen” software engineer, and not a “honey the new microwave records us constantly and has access to all our banking information, isn’t that great” software engineer

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What images keep surfacing – and why? – in our stories about bureaucracy? Why does the language of horror creep into descriptions of administrative form? I'll be digging into that in mid-January at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, in conversation with Irina Dumitrescu.

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🚨 job alert! 🚨 2 #postdoctoralresearchers / #PostDocPosition s (65% TV-L 13) at Uni Potsdam - with the International Research Training Group (IRTG) Cultures of Repair deadline: 30 September 2026 details: www.uni-potsdam.de/e... #literarystudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #queerstudies

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‘A good critic is a kind of lightning conductor who picks out the energy in what they read and passes it on to others.’ Colin Burrow on Helen Vendler and the uses of criticism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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