Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Summer Courses: The Waves, a six week dive into the literature and philosophy of loneliness, and a retreat to Thoreau's Walden. Also: Purgatorio, a writing workshop, how to memorize a poem, and introduction to archival research samantharosehill.substack.com/p/welcome-to... 261
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 09/04/2026“What is the phrase for the moon? And the phrase for love? By what name are we to call death? I do not know. I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room..." — Virginia Woolf, The Waves 170
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026In French class we received a kissing map so we will know how many kisses to give depending on where we go in France 190
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 23/02/2026When Hannah Arendt described finding her husband by chance in the South of France at the village market next to a stack of mattresses I always had a hard time picturing what that looked like, until this morning. 1313
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Carcassonne’s torture museum has a display of a writer collapsed at his desk. 040
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 19/02/2026se abdere in bibliothecam suam to bury oneself in one's library 150
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 15/02/2026"Are you the one," I ask, "whom Dante hear dictate the lines of his Inferno?" She answers: "Yes." — Anna Akhmatova 060
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Tonight! at 6pm ET (online) Join me for a conversation with Barbara Wansbrough bout her debut book, Wild Things: A Geography of Grief Link here: substack.com/home/post/p-... 020
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Racism is and has always been central to fascist political ideology. 29223
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Thank you to everyone who donated and attended the reading of Hannah Arendt's essay "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship" last night. Here's the recording: substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comPersonal Responsibility Under Dictatorship PlaybackA special reading group in solidarity with Minnesota 096
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillThe History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 27/01/2026For more about Arendt, take a listen to the conversation with @jackewilson.bsky.social and Samantha Rose Hill about her biography of Arendt. #books #hannaharendt @reaktionbooks.bsky.socialhistoryofliterature.com512 Hannah Arendt (with Samantha Rose Hill) | My Last Book with …Born to a German-Jewish family in 1906, Hannah Arendt became one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century. Her works, including The Origins … 065
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Take a journey through Hannah Arendt's life and work with me this February at the JTA, where we'll explore the key concepts and ideas that animate Arendt's work through a close reading of The Human Condition! Registration: my-jewish-learning.teachable.com/p/hannah-are... 20% discount code: HUMAN20 082
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 26/01/2026In response to the unfolding terror in Minnesota I wanted to create a space to come together. I’m hosting a book club on Hannah Arendt’s essay Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship next Tuesday to raise money for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota samantharosehill.substack.com/p/a-special-bosamantharosehill.substack.com 1187
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 25/01/2026“Defensive shots” is Orwellian language for a gang of masked armed state agents firing at least ten shots into a man pinned face-down in the street. They don't need a reason, they'll make one up after the fact. Political lies become common speech to cover up crimes. 41710
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 24/01/2026This is how fascism comes to America. It’s the endless events, day after day, until one day you wake up in a different country. Anti-immigrant rhetoric, censorship, attacks on universities, masked terror squads murdering people in the streets, enemy lists, denaturalization, camps 971968797
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 19/01/2026"A lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history." — Hannah Arendt 03315
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Favorites thinkers, writers, and philosophers of desire? (living) 210
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Only one other person in history has accepted a Nobel prize as a gesture of thanks 0131
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 17/01/2026"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." — Ralph Waldo Emerson 0101
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Meet Brontë She loves speaking French, ear scratches, and sleeping. 1100
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 13/01/2026From the ever brilliant and courageous Louise Adler who is a champion of writers, free speech, and democratic values in dark times www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comI cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise AdlerCancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation 010
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillDov @drnelk.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Perfect start to the day with words by Hannah Arendt, translated by @samantharhill.bsky.social and @genesegrill.bsky.social 0122
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 11/01/2026“A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents, but as an instrument to rule masses of people who are perfectly obedient.” — Hannah Arendt 02010
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 10/01/2026"No one has the right to obey." — Hannah Arendt 0166
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillAnita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 07/01/2026When hope is a hindrance For Hannah Arendt, hope is a dangerous barrier to courageous action. In dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act | by Samantha Rose Hill (@samantharhill.bsky.social) aeon.co/essays/for-a... #Arendt #hope #philosophy #philsky#PhilosophySkyaeon.coFor Arendt, hope in dark times is no match for action | Aeon EssaysFor Hannah Arendt, hope is a dangerous barrier to courageous action. In dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act 1113
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026And the follow-up point is that because imperialism requires constant expansion, it is inherently incompatible with stable political institutions. It causes and relies on political instability at home. Not unrelated to unaccountable state actors shooting citizens in the street. 030
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Hannah Arendt’s point in Imperialism was that there is no end to imperialism. It goes on and on. The nation-state is rooted in imperialism and imperialism is rooted in expansionism. Trump is doubling down on 19th-century nation-state politics, and doing the once quiet part aloud. 1185
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 06/01/2026When you order wood in a small French village and they leave it at your door 2130
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 02/01/2026“That’s a suspicious amount of books.” 22 years of notebooks in one suitcase 071
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Friedrich Nietzsche, For the new year: 1134
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 10/11/2025City Lights has long been a beacon of bookishness for me. It was a thrill to do CITY LIGHTS LIVE!: a conversation about close reading with Yael Segalovitz and my co-editor on Close Reading for the 21C, @johannawinant.bsky.social moderated by @samantharhill.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehZ0...youtube.comCITY LIGHTS LIVE! Close Reading Today - Celebrating University Press Week 2025YouTube video by CityLightsBooks 1307
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillJohanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 10/11/2025look, when the legendary City Lights asks to record a conversation about close reading, you respond “yes, I’ll hide upstairs in a room in my parents‘ house, put on a clean shirt, and talk a lot with my hands!!!” join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me! 04710
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillJack Hill @jackhill.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Moby-Dick seminar brings about questions about self / political / religious / perspectives on life by an author in times of formation. My great grandfather’s middle name was Melville. His brother Harold died at sea. @samantharhill.bsky.social #writing #novels open.substack.com/pub/samantha...open.substack.comMoby-DickWeek 1 021
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillThomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Happy to see that my pal Samantha Rose Hill got a shout out in the Times this weekend. @samantharhill.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...nytimes.comHannah Arendt Is Not Your Icon 185
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillGenese Grill @genesegrill.bsky.social · 01/09/2025I am co-leading a year-long Man Without Qualities Reading Group with @samantharhill.bsky.social , starting on Monday, October 13th. Join us! Details can be found here: genesegrill.substack.com/p/man-withou...genesegrill.substack.comMan Without Qualities Reading GroupStarting October 13th 25114
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillJeremy Wang-Iverson @jwi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025@samantharhill.bsky.social in New York Times 265
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillLinda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025"The danger is not that A.I. will replace human connection. The danger is that it will make us forget what actual connection requires..." @samantharhill.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop 1135
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 08/07/2025"The danger is not that AI will replace human connection," @samantharhill.bsky.social writes. The danger is that it will make us forget what actual connection requires while eroding our ability to think for ourselves." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop 295
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025“Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem,” @samantharhill.bsky.social on the tech loneliness doom hoop. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop 074
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 01/06/2025My favorite definition of love Rainer Maria Rilke: 2487
Reposted by Samantha Rose HillOt @jensot.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Look Sam, Heidelberg is online @samantharhill.bsky.social youtu.be/i04iCnOUAvc?...youtu.beSamantha Rose Hill & Paul Holdengräber: Was bleibt. Hannah Arendt als DichterinYouTube video by DAI Heidelberg 072
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Hannah Arendt with her mother Martha Sara Cohn 0526