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Jeffrey Schnapp

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founder@metaLABharvard, co-director@BKCHarvard, CVO@P_F_F, cultural historian, curator, knowledge designer, biker & scooterologist - jeffreyschnapp.com

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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
An interesting assistant rank media studies position available at UVic: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
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HUMS 250-115 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Now available from LUISS University Press: a revised, updated, Italian version of my cultural history of coffee consumption with a focus on interwar stovetop coffee makers like the Bialetti Moka Express. luissuniversitypress.it/pubblicazion...
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Coming up next week: the annual Renato Poggioli lecture delivered by: Michael Roth @michael.roth.9237 | President of Wesleyan University | will be speaking on "From Academic Freedom to Defending Democracy: Our Task in 2026." Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
New post on an important project for building archives of contemporary social movements being undertaken by Fondazione Feltrinelli jeffreyschnapp.com/2025/11/12/a...
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Archives of the Present | Jeffrey Schnapp
Last year, the Milan-based Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, on whose advisory board I serve, launched its important Archives of the Present project which sets out to collect and preserve documentat...
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Coming up this week @harvard.edu
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The genuine capitals of violent crime in the US; of course, if you don't read books or believe experts, none of this matters.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Coming up on Friday, Sept. 12 @ 8 pm at Salotto (84 Withers Street, Brooklyn, NY) a conversation with David Reinfurt and Jason Fulford on the occasion of the publication of the English edition of Design and Visual Communication.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Coming very soon (English translation + critical apparatus and introductory essay on Munari's visiting professorship at Harvard) www.inventorypress.com/product/brun...
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Design and Visual Communication
Bruno Munari 5.375 × 8.25 inches, 400 pages, softcover ISBN 978-1-941753-71-2 Design by IN-FO.CO Available for Pre-order Shipping October 2025...
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Winner of the 2025 edition of the Premio di saggistica "Città delle rose" (autori stranieri); honored to be in the company of Alberto Manguel, Marc Augé, Michail Chodorkovskji, Edgar Morin, and Tzvetan Todorov, among others. www.ilsaggiatore.com/libro/storia...
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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
‪The 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 | 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙪𝙢, co-hosted by #BarabasiLab and #metaLAB, gathered a community exploring data as both material and meaning. As @kimay.bsky.social put it: “We design data, & data designs us.” A timely and necessary conversation. 🧮 bit.ly/4eoUPoa @barabasi.bsky.social @jaytiesse.bsky.social
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Historical Performances of Vingegaard and Pogačar on Mont Ventoux | Tour de France 2025 Stage 16 lanternerouge.com/2025/07/22/h... via @LanterneRougeYT -- 54 minutes to the top of Mount Ventoux (if you've ever climbed it you know just how amazing this is).
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Historical Performances of Vingegaard and Pogačar on Mont Ventoux | Tour de France 2025 Stage 16 - Lanterne Rouge
With a flat stage before Mont Ventoux, it was expected to have some fireworks and huge climbing performances…
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
From our event from last week
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A belated best-seller well suited for the times: Sebastian Haffner’s Abschied www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Unknown novel by writer who charted Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller
Sebastian Haffner’s love story set in final days of Weimar Republic published more than nine decades after it was written
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers 19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu... via @19thnews.org
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Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers
The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Sad news ishtip.org/mario-biagio...
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Mario Biagioli (1955-2025) – ISHTIP.org
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King.
Don't let this happen
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
That's terrible news. Mario was a truly exceptional person as well as scholar.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
meanwhile, some real news edition.cnn.com/2025/05/16/c...
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A crucial system of ocean currents is slowing. It’s already supercharging sea level rise in the US. | CNN
A new study gives alarming glimpse into the future, as some scientists warn these currents could be just decades from collapse.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Time to draft up a new Magna Carta for Harvard's host nation (given the assault on constitutional law that is underway). www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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In Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta
At a moment when Harvard is battling the Trump administration, a scholar who helped discover the charter said it was an “almost providential” find.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
An excellent piece by Anil Seth on why sentience and consciousness should be marginal at best in future of AI conversations. bigthink.com/neuropsych/t...
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The illusion of conscious AI
Neuroscientist Anil Seth explains why people often overestimate how likely it is that AI will become conscious.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
sprinting out of the gate today...
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
meanwhile, from the City on the Hill www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Revealed: Autopsy suggests South Carolina botched firing squad execution
Records obtained by the Guardian indicate shooters missed the target on Mikal Mahdi, which lawyers say caused prolonged suffering
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Some fresh print. The concluding book in the metaLABprojects series at MIT Press. A thoughtful journey into humanistic and humane knowledge and how it can be engaged to help us collaboratively respond in ethical and sustainable ways to global challenges mitpress.mit.edu/978026254212...
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Well deserved. ProPublica wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category www.pulitzer.org/winners/22659
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Piaggio Fast Forward partners with Star Wars on G1T4-M1N1 www.starwars.com/news/piaggio...
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Welcome to North Korea. From the NEH website: the agency is looking for statues of “famous American statesmen, visionaries, and innovators” on a Trump-authored list of 250 individuals inc. Antonin Scalia, Samuel Colt, Vince Lombardi, and Helen Keller. hyperallergic.com/1006550/neh-...
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NEH Calls for Proposals for Trump’s Bizarre Sculpture Garden
After slashing hundreds of grants for cultural institutions, the agency is opening applications for the president’s widely questioned “National Garden of American Heroes.”
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
World’s largest bleaching event on record has harmed 84 percent of coral reefs www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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World’s largest bleaching event on record has harmed 84 percent of coral reefs
Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on it for survival.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
About time that such alliances are forged. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Over 150 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration
Statement signed by Harvard, Princeton and Brown leaders denounces White House’s ‘undue government intrusion’
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The leaders of various leading philanthropic organizations speak out. Among them our friend John Palfrey. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US philanthropists warn against capitulating to Trump: ‘We need to step up’
Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
America's most competitive and prestigious export (so, naturally, the genius the in White House wants to kill it). www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports
The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Registration is now open at the Data|Art conference website data-art.info
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DATA | ART
Data | Art explores the entanglements of data and artistic, scientific, and curatorial practices as a critical examination of how data configures aesthetic, social, and epistemic structures.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The illegal demands being made by the government to control the Harvard community, including requirements to “audit” the views of our student body, faculty, staff, and to “reduc[e] the power” of students, faculty, and administrators targeted because of their views. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
In case you haven't seen the cool collaborative robots that we build at PFF, have a look at gita's big brother: kilo piaggiofastforward.com/business/kilo
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PFF kilo - Piaggio Fast Forward
kilo is a 4-wheeled robotic flat bed with built-in, hands-free following capabilities, designed for businesses who regularly transport large items.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The blobs are the melting down of forms of intelligence, thoughtfulness, and judgment. www.earth.com/news/north-a...
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North America is 'dripping' blobs of rock down into Earth's mantle under the U.S.
Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in blobs of rock.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
today in los angeles
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
…which goes with this apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
And now this: “COMBATING CORROSIVE IDEOLOGY” www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History
RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I will be speaking on The Compass of the Human on Day 2 digitalfutures.hkbu.edu.hk/eng/index.html
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The path out (for who can afford it) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Americans Are Buying an Escape Plan
Is it time for a second passport?
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The Rags-to-Richness Story of the Stroopwafel www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/d...
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How the Stroopwafel Cookie Came to Be
Once considered “poor man cookies,” these Dutch sweets have found a global audience of loyal fans.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Say it aint' so... wapo.st/4bVzTE3
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Growing weed takes more energy than mining bitcoin. Can it go green?
Growing weed inside uses about 1 percent of U.S. electricity and pollutes more than cryptocurrency mining. There’s a better way to fuel America’s high.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
How to Save the Climate Despite Everything www.persuasion.community/p/how-to-sav...
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How to Save the Climate Despite Everything
Concerning seaweed and its many uses.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
metaLAB in the Washington Post wapo.st/4iMYJYW
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Analysis | D.C.’s BLM street painting is nearly gone. What about all the others?
Although D.C.’s iconic Black Lives Matter Plaza is being torn up, other street art from the summer of 2020 remains, and a few paintings look better than ever.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Coming up LA on March 29... the book launch for FANTASY
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
computer dating circa 1966 youtu.be/IFHDEBfYwqU?...
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The rocky 1960s origin of online dating | BBC Global
YouTube video by BBC Global
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
ICE is a national disgrace www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The website for metaLAB and Barabasi Lab's DATA | ART conference is now up and running. data-art.info
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DATA | ART
Data | Art explores the entanglements of data and artistic, scientific, and curatorial practices as a critical examination of how data configures aesthetic, social, and epistemic structures.
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Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
How do sherpas do it? (Superior kidney function) www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-u...
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An Unlikely Organ Helps to Explain Sherpas’ Aptitude for Altitude
New work reveals a surprising hero in combating altitude sickness
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