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Jerónimo Rilla

@jrilla.bsky.social
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Trying to draw out Leviathan with a hook. Researching Hobbes's link to South America through political personifications. Currently at UCL. www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academ…

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Italo Calvino on the end of the world (1970)
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Argentinian universities on strike, again! www.timeshighereducation.com/news/argenti...
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Argentinian universities on strike as Milei dodges funding law
Teaching union leading day-long industrial action as disagreement rumbles on over blocked funding for higher education
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Very happy to see my article on Schmitt's ideas on the visibility of political power. Check it out, at least for the images featuring 1929 St Peter's Square and Dreyer's teary Joan of Arc! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The Visibility of the State: Symbolic and Allegorical Representations in the Work of Carl Schmitt - Jerónimo Rilla, 2026
This article argues that Carl Schmitt’s approach to the visual expression of political power evolves from an early reliance on symbolic form to a later adoption...
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Amazing essay by Koselleck (transl. @adamtooze.bsky.social) on war experience as a "glowing mass of lava hardened" into the body and on how the end of war is never the end of it. Incredible writing
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
In 1842, an optimistic George H. Lewes imagined a future (two millennia ahead) where a New Zealand historian would document the decline and fall of the British Empire ("should that empire be fated to decline and fall").
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
As Borges anticipated, the world will be Tlön
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Cicero on personified laws handing over swords for self-defense (via Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres)
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Kantorowicz in 1932 wondering how long universities would continue to exist
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Kantorowicz responds to the critics accusing him of "methodologically flawed" history: it's like "those Austrian generals" defeated by Napoleon in Italy. They too argued that the enemy won, but "through methodologically incorrect means".
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Our interview with Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) about his new book, Anticlerical Legacies, is now out on the European Hobbes Society website. A fascinating read for early modernists!👇 europeanhobbessociety.squarespace.com/articles/int...
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Interview with Elad Carmel on Anticlerical legacies: The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes — European Hobbes Society
Elad Carmel (University of Jyväskylä) has recently published Anticlerical legacies. The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670-1740 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024),...
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Almost simultaneously, against the backdrop of WW2, Marc Bloch (The Historian's Craft) and Carl Schmitt (Land and Sea) both reflected on history being prompted by their children. I don't know what that means, but it must mean something.
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Starting tomorrow! Hobbes in Dialogue(s) - The fifth conference of the European Hobbes Society. More details on the program: hobbesparis.hypotheses.org/files/2024/1...
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Graphic design in the Renaissance: 1. Arion riding a dolphin and playing a lyre, trademark of the publisher Johannes Oporinus. 2. Paris edition of the works of St. Hilary of Poitiers featuring the city emblem.
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
L'abbé Raynal roasting Sorbière (Hobbes's pen-friend): "Hobbes wrote to Sorbière about matters of philosophy. Sorbière sent his letters to Gassendi, and what Gassendi replied served as Sorbière's responses to Hobbes’ letters, who believed Sorbière to be a great philosopher."
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thought it was a coronavirus reference at first
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The scanned copy of the volume "Hobbes et son vocabulaire" available for download out there belongs/belonged to Quentin Skinner?! Check out the signature at the beginning.
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Marat's two deaths at the Carnavalet Museum
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Really interesting piece by Macarena Marey on the geopolitics of academia. I can relate to much of what is discussed, particularly regarding the perception of never being heard. It also reminded me of this article on the "silence" of Latam researchers: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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My experience with geopolitics of knowledge in political philosophy so far
Geopolitics of knowledge is a fact. Only few (conservative) colleagues would contend otherwise. Ingrid Robeyns wrote an entry for this blog dealing with this problem. There, Ingrid dealt mostly wit…
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Re new immigration law in France, relocation costs are becoming a service industry in itself (influx of money from poorer economies to richer ones). Profitable effects of asylum seeking have been highlighted in a recent Tooze/Abadi podcast. foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/one...
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How Asylum-Seekers Shake Up Economies (Mostly in Good Ways)
Ones and Tooze: Adam and Cameron look at the economics of migration.
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Demain/Tomorrow Hobbes (+Pufendorf)@Paris! More info: hobbesparis.hypotheses.org
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Exceptional 1878 caricature in Kladderadatsch: Otto von Bismarck stuffing emergency laws into the mouth of a goose embodying the Parliament. “Eat or die, bird,” says the Chancellor. What's the origin of this goose-Parliament identification? Check it out here👇: stateperson.hypotheses.org/559
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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
I see Leviathan all over the place: The Adoration of the Lamb (1498) by Dürer, part of his Apocalypse series, spotted at the BNF.
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