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John Raimo

@johnraimo.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Posting in a personal capacity on history, literature, arts, &c.

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Do you know of Jindřich Štyrský's work, by any chance? This collaboration with Jindřich Heisler is wonderful (translation courtesy of the amazing @twistedspoon.bsky.social), as is his "Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream" ("Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu"): www.twistedspoon.com/needles-of-t....
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I'd argue that it's very much (today) a product of RAI (Radiotelevisione italiana) but the debate runs from Dante & Bembo through Manzoni to Graziadio Isaia Ascoli & other linguistic debates, regional initiatives, and literary movements. Should it interest, this is a great book from a hero of mine!
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Professional historian of Italy here. 👋🏻 This is so blatantly wrong that either a non-Italian wrote it or the poster just wanted to troll Americans. Standard Italian is basically an artificial language. Campanilismo. Unification in 1871. See Franco Cassano's "Il pensiero meridiano" for a start, too.
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Not sure I'd sign onto this, even if those are two big names .... Cf. this study (a bit too old now to have a publisher page, alas):
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Antoine Compagnon, 1966, année mirifique (Gallimard, 2026 ; #skystorians) : www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/19...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Surely I'm not the only #skystorian out there screenshot'ing the NYT on the assumption that many of us and our colleagues will one day professionally write about its role legitimizing Trump in the teeth of vehement denials and gaslighting from the newspaper's C-suite? Unbelievable stuff regardless.
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Muriel Pic, Escamotages : Portrait de Philippe Decrauzat (Editions art&fiction, 2025) artfiction.ch/produit/esca...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#philology #bookhistory Cf. Giorgio Ziffer, L'opera di Paul Maas: Una bibliografia degli scritti (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2025; #skystorians): www.storiaeletteratura.it/catalogo/lop...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Fantastic article - Alexander Bubb, Which Translation?: Identifying the True Source of Patten Wilson’s Shahnameh Illustrations (Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1, 2023; #skystorians) journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/vo...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Roger Nimier, Œuvres. Romans, essais, critique, chroniques (Gallimard, 2025) www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/oe...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Un libro fondamentale di un importante pensatore letterario: Francesco Orlando, Per una teoria freudiana della letteratura (Quodlibet, 2025). www.quodlibet.it/libro/978882...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
44e Conférence Marc Bloch (@ehess.fr) : Michèle Lamont (@mlamont.bsky.social), "Faire face au grand remaniement symbolique : place à toutes et à tous" (@lecese.fr). Cf. www.ehess.fr/fr/conf%C3%A...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
God damn that's an awesome book cover from New Directions' art team; cf. www.ndbooks.com/book/covert-....
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One under-reported fact, I think, is that Deneen served as Peter Hegseth's undergraduate thesis advisor: arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/d...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Todd Webb, Paris: A Love Story 1948-1952 (Damiani, 2025; #slystorians) www.damianibooks.com/en/products/...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Color me deeply foreboded (cf. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...).
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Sa traduction de "The Waves" est en effet également un chef-d'œuvre .... Marguerite Yourcenar, Sur Virginia Woolf : Une femme étincelante et timide et autres textes brefs (Gallimard, 2026) www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/su...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Truly lovely work in this @magnumphotos.bsky.social feature but three favorites: 1) Tivoli Gardens. Copenhagen, Denmark. 1968 © Elliott Erwitt; 2) Fjord. Norway. 1975 © Harry Gruyaert; and 3) Denmark © Gueorgui Pinkhassov. #skystorians www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Gorgeous photo from Cristina de Middel for @magnumphotos.bsky.social (cf. www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...).
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Man, David Zaslav seems like another representative figure of the age: entitled nerd-fanboy quant who kept failing upwards, hurting artists and journalists (cf. Warner Brothers' tax write-offs, "lost media," &c.), and demanding plaudits until it all imploded in less than three years.
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Georges Didi-Huberman, Celui par qui s'ouvre la terre. Saint Georges, versions d'une légende (Gallimard, 2025) www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/ce...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Great study in contrasts (the NYT piece being crazy far down the homepage the same day it happened):
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Blaise Cendrars, Les Pâques à New York (1912 ; illustré par Franz Masereel, 1926 ; Denoël, 2025) www.denoel.fr/catalogue/le...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Anne Cuneo, Le maître de Garamond (Éditions Héros-Limites, 2025 ; #skystorians, #bookhistory) : heros-limite.com/livres/le-ma...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Voix aux chapitres #18 le 9 décembre (chez @ehess.fr) autour de l'ouvrage "Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur mondial ?" (de @giselesapiro.bsky.social; @cessp.ehess.fr, @editionsduseuil.bsky.social) : www.ehess.fr/fr/rencontre...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
« #1 Meilleure vente dans Dépression dans la société » .... Je ris et je pleure en même temps (pour @minczifra.bsky.social parmi d'autres #skystorians) :
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
God this is a gorgeous photo. Saul Leiter, Fay c. 1948 © Saul Leiter Foundation - Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (via loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/archives-...)
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
German Exhibition Stamps, 1924–1934 (Merrill C. Berman Collection, #skystorians) mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Catherine Leroy, Un aller simple pour le Vietnam (Éditions Xavier Barral, 2025; #skystorians, #photography) : exb.fr/fr/home/674-...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Max Bill's covers of the Swiss anti-fascist journal Information: Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Erziehung, Technik, Kunst (1932-1933; Merrill C. Berman Collection; #skystorians): mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Heute Abend - Anne Weber, Untot und unvergangen: Der Angriff der Virtual Reality auf die Vergangenheit (18h, Centre allemande d'histoire de l'art - Paris). www.dfk-paris.org/fr/node/4143
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Jesus! (Duras; cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mal...)
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Thought this was a devastatingly clear insight from Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole.bsky.social) that no one else has entirely broached, so far as I know (cf. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...).
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Rue Monceau, un palais brisé par l’Histoire : Splendeurs et misères de la maison Camondo (Ruth Zylberman, réalisatrice, 2025 ; #skystorians) akadem.org/rue-monceau-...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Ça fait longtemps ....
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Open Access: Epochenwenden. Zur Aktualität historischer Periodisierung. (Barbara Picht und Henning Trüper, Hrsg.; @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535880...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Man, been a minute since I took a peek at the WashPo opinion section and yeesh. 😨
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Christopher Clark, A Scandal in Königsberg / Skandal in Königsberg: Eine Geschichte von Moral, Medien und Politik aus dem alten Preußen (@penguinpress.bsky.social, DVA / Penguin Bücher, 2025/6; #skystorians) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/801237... + www.penguin.de/buecher/chri...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte: Karl Mannheim (Heft XIX/3 Herbst 2025; aber Armin Nassehi ...? 🤮🤮🤮🤮; #skystorians) www.chbeck.de/zeitschrift-...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
*Except abortion providers, women, &c. #RobbieGeorge (cf. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...) :
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Michael Streeter, Franco (second edition; @hauspublishing.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): www.hauspublishing.com/product/fran...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Just superbly interesting graphic design work here .... Steven Heller, Before the Big Lebowski (PRINT Magazine; #skystorians): www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Good thing it's "Opinion" because the dude's career wouldn't survive an intern fact-checker:
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Luigi Ghirri, Lezioni di fotografia (Quodlibet, 2025; #photography): www.quodlibet.it/libro/978882...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Amina Hassani (@amiha.bsky.social), La justice du capital : Quand les multinationales (dé)font la loi (@lafabrique.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) lafabrique.fr/la-justice-d...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A lot of fun today at Paris Photo 2025:
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
One more window display (Librairie Compagnie; #Pasolini):
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Just wait until some intrepid NYT reporter thinks to go back through Trump's old tweets .... (There is *always* an old tweet, a frank confession, a self-accusation while attacking someone else, &c.)
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Michael Hagner, Wider den Populismus: Paul Feyerabends dadaistische Erkenntnistheorie (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social, 2017; #skystorians): zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2017/5498
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is just too good. All of it. Even the title. (As someone who worked in publishing, I can assure you all that this was a case of the author absolutely insisting on it against the editors' judgment.) Just amazing. #JohnFetterman
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