#Sinews

Quinn Slobodian

Watching @LalehKhalili’s zoom lecture at @HarvardGSD. Great granular archival detail from McKinsey, Shell, Rothschild on tankerization, an empirical test of Mitchell’s carbon democracy thesis. Can’t wait to read—and teach—the @VersoBooks

James K.A. Smith

While the pandemic is pushing churches to forms of digital/remote worship, you’d expect this to foster disembodiment, giving license for further “ex-carnation” as Charles Taylor puts it. But I’m seeing

I know when a tweet is targetting me, but I'll play your game:They say that “Time assuages” –Time never did assuage –An actual suffering strengthensAs Sinews do, with age –Time

Emmett Macfarlane

Far be it from me to disagree with Constance Backhouse but no, a judge ruling and then meeting with a party to a case to receive "a gesture of gratitude"

In times that test our wills and nerves,When darkness spreads and fortune swerves;Let's shun that cloak that's put to sleep,The strength within, the valor deep! So, stand upright, with warrior's

Everyone is talking about the big ship getting stuck in the #Suez Canal. Here's a critical logistics reading list on the politics of how we got here -why ships are

Before I lose myself in the blog post I'll start a slow-moving thread of cultural objects that were NOT safe, NOT in better hands outside of their country/community of origin.

Danté Stewart (Stew)

I can remember when it first happened—when my dungeon shook and my chains fell off. I had recently went through a horrible experience and felt there was no where to

🇺🇸 Richard Poe 🇺🇸

1 of 38THREADMost patriots agree that we're fighting something called "globalism."But what is it?Globalism was invented in Victorian England, and later pushed by the British Fabians.It is now the dominant

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v3.full.pdfThe operational false positive rate of the widely used PCR test is so large that ALL the mass testing data since June should be flushed. Think of cities & areas

love & its tenuous connections— hairs/wires/strings 1. emily dickinson to sue gilbert, 1885 2. anne sexton, “small wire,” 1975 3. roland barthes, a lover’s discourse, 1978 maybe even the slender

Shirley Tillotson

Speaking of she-cessions and care-work in strange times:The 1942 mass income tax met fierce resistance from married women war workers who had children. Like care workers today, they were under

blood of my blood

THE SWORD OF ALLAH: THE DEATH OF KHALID IBN WALEED. Some time in 642 (21 Hijri), at the age of 58, Khalid Bin Waleed, The Sword of Allah, fell ill.

"Now that's what I call a #heavyweight."Pearl didn't like the way the stranger was leaning on her gate. Or how his eyes were greasing the length of her prize marrow,

Secret SoSHHiety

Evildoer Added to Evildoer: The Story of Satan, Azazel & the Rebellious AngelsBy: John of the Gentiles(Thread)Settle back for this one... Preamble to the United Nations General Assembly Universal Declaration