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Yuliya Komska

@ykomska.bsky.social
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German prof, writer about the material things that metaphors hide 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • Pre-order: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope thru the Rise & Fall of Nazism • next: bio of Curious George • ❤️ in E. Europe • 🍄,🪡

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 18h
Ces jours-ci, la Russie s'acharne sur Kyiv avec des drones lancés sur les pylones de lignes à haute tension et les ponts qui relient les deux rives de la ville. Objectif: faire plier la population, dont la vie devient infernale. Reportage pour @ouest-france.fr 👇 www.ouest-france.fr/europe/ukrai...
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REPORTAGE. « Nous sommes au bord du précipice » : en Ukraine, la capitale paralysée après de nouvelles frappes russes
Le maire de Kiev qualifie la situation dans la capitale d’« extrêmement dramatique » et estime que Moscou était en train de « saccager » la ville en s’en prenant systématiquement à ses infrastructures...
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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 18h
The ICC has issued 4 warrants for war crimes & crimes against humanity regarding electricity deprivation in Ukraine icc-cpi.int/news/situati... icc-cpi.int/news/situati... None yet for starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. Here is the basis for doing so justsecurity.org/81209/legal-... 2/2
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Legal Frameworks for Assessing the Use of Starvation in Ukraine
A comprehensive analysis by leading legal expert on starvation and siege warfare, as that law applies to Russia's war in Ukraine.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 18h
Jozef Vissel, “Commercial art,” c 1970. collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/525341
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
US journalism is moral-bankrupting itself with phrases like "a botched execution" or the innuendos like there is a "normal" execution. The point of this case is that it throws into sharp relief that executions are so obviously barbaric and a fundamental violation of human dignity
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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Im Hessischen Landesverfassungsschutz wurden Beobachtungsvorgänge & Meldungen zum NSU-Netzwerk so schlecht dokumentiert, dass de facto sichergestellt war, dass der NSU et al. ungehindert morden konnte. In Kassel wurde Halit Yozgat sogar in Anwesenheit eines Verfassungsschutzmitarbeiters ermordet.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Russia has ramped up its crimes against humanity to force Ukraine on its knees by early next year, and nobody’s in its way. Ukraine is no longer in conversation as itself, only as a western shield giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian leader tells FT his Russian counterpart has given the order that ‘there are no rules now’
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Übermedien @uebermedien.de · 01/10/2026
Sind Medien in ihrem Bemühen, den Osten zu verstehen, über das Ziel hinausgeschossen? @andrejnalin.bsky.social sagt: ja. Die ständige Suche nach ostdeutscher Identität habe nicht nur wenig Erkenntnis gebracht – sie könnte auch der AfD in die Hände gespielt haben. Ohne Paywall: uebermedien.de/121102/
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„Wir reden viel zu viel über ostdeutsche Identität“: Warum die Debatte über den Osten nicht weiterhilft
Ständig wollen Medien „den Osten“ erklären und verstehen. Doch was bringen all diese Formate? Und hat die Erzählung vom abgehängten Osten die AfD nicht noch stärker gemacht?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you're in the Upper Valley, Episodes 1-2 of Babylon Berlin premier tonight with director/scriptwriter/co-creator Henk Handloegten in attendance. 7-10pm, Loewe Auditorium, Dartmouth
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive…implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event & special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life.” - Mayor of Ithaca, actually doin’ shit
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Ithaca Mayor responds to reopened sexual assault case
ITHACA, N.Y. (WETM) – Robert G. Cantelmo, Mayor of Ithaca, has issued a statement on suspending Greek life at Cornell University until certain official procedures are put into place. Below is the s…
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/09/2026
⚡️Russia beginning 'additional mobilization' of troops, North Korean recruitment, Zelensky warns. North Korea is also preparing to deploy another 10,000 troops against Ukraine, in addition to the more than 8,000 military personnel currently stationed in Russia, Zelensky said.
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Russia beginning 'additional mobilization' of troops, North Korean recruitment, Zelensky warns
The president said that Russia is looking to "increase the involvement of foreigners" in its armed forces. North Korea is preparing to deploy another 10,000 troops against Ukraine, in addition to the ...
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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"America has lost more than 200k jobs in “creative” industries over the last four years, with roughly 50k lost within the last year alone. That makes for one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history." www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
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taz @taz.de · 28/09/2026
Israels ultrarechte Regierung wütet schon vor dem weltweiten Filmstart gegen die Gaza-Doku „Naza“. Ab Donnerstag läuft sie in deutschen Kinos.
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Debatte um Gaza-Doku: „Naza“ soll kostenlos im Netz zu sehen sein
Israels ultrarechte Regierung wütet schon vor dem weltweiten Filmstart gegen die Gaza-Doku „Naza“. Ab Donnerstag läuft sie in deutschen Kinos.
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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Weirder, Louder, Taller, Uglier - Unkraut zur Verwilderung" in der Galerie am Körnerpark. Wee rucksacks running about.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Makes me sad when leftist academics-/mostly men—try ludicrously hard to wedge themselves into fascistic circles, but all they can do is repeat Anne Applebaum and observe that the right and the left read the same books, apparently. 100% Sisyphean and boring www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“There was a dog on the runway” is the new “the dog ate my homework”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
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‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error The Home Office is facing legal action over a controversial policy to strip EU citizens who were in the UK before Brexit of their residency rights on the grounds that it gave them the status “in error”. It comes as a Home Office minister revealed that the government has contacted 1,473 citizens with post-Brexit residency rights to tell them the original decision to grant them residency was made in error. Continue reading...
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Blavatnik Archive—terrible donor, wonderful people—had a table at the GSA for the first time. It now has tons of German objects/items and is looking for expert help to label them.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why crises can be good for you!
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026
Can I just add that Drew’s excellent point here is why the entire discourse about declining humanities majors is so ridiculous and makes me want to scream every time I encounter it.
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Post-1945 Fiction and/or Narrative of the United States - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed C...
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ve never been as moved by landscape painting as by Kim Chong Hak’s. He secluded himself from everything to spend 4 seasons at a mountain that so obviously overwhelmed him. Everything about it looms and intrudes in a most visceral and gripping way. Magical show phxart.org/exhibition/k...
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Artist once known” is what everyone should say instead of “artist unknown”. Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
“Artist once known” replaces “artist unknown” on museum labels, Heard Museum, Phoenix AZ
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The scandal around Dartmouth Provost‘s undisclosed use of AI to write published work (incl. op eds) & his defensiveness makes it clear that many STEM never learn writing is—it IS editing and finessing. For them, those are just cherries ob top, a job for AI www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Dartmouth’s provost has stopped “writing.”
Dartmouth’s provost raises a tension we should examine.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jan-Werner Müller: "Many people in the United States have come to understand how voices from the center—supposedly moderate by definition—can in fact strengthen right-wing extremism. Perhaps the mistakes observed in America can still be avoided in Europe." Precisely. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Wie die vermeintliche politische Mitte den Rechtsextremismus stärkt
„Das hilft doch nur den Rechten“: Mit dieser Losung kritisierten liberale politische Theoretiker die vermeintlichen Exzesse des Bürgerrechtsschutzes. Ihr reaktionärer Zentrismus hat selbst nur den Rec...
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Friends in Berlin and Germany, save the date for my book launch November 5th at the Schwules Museum. I'll be in conversation with some very special-to-me guests. Consider it a teaser! www.schwulesmuseum.de/veranstaltun...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“.. Soybeans are coming back a little bit, but currently [China's purchases] are at much, much lower levels .. For all of the other products — cotton, wheat, pork, beef — the exports were devastated in 2025, and there's no evidence of them coming back." @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/09/25/n...
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Ann-Katrin Müller @akm0803.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bin ziemlich genervt von all den Äußerungen, dass man ja nicht wisse, was man gegen diese AfD bloß tun soll. Da gibt es wirklich gute Forschung zu. Die auch nicht jetzt erst entdeckt wird, sondern von mir und vielen anderen immer wieder beschrieben wurde. Also nochmal, ganz konstruktiv:
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(S+) Meinung: AfD: Was jetzt geschehen müsste, um die Rechtsextremen zu stoppen – ein Leitartikel von Ann-Katrin Müller
Die Rechtsextremisten gewinnen Wahl um Wahl. Dabei ist offensichtlich, wie sich die AfD stoppen ließe.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"A projected 111,000 fewer international students are expected in the U.S. this fall — a more than 9% drop in enrollment. A coalition of higher education organizations (AND UNIONS) sued the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the rule from taking effect." www.wuky.org/wuky-news/20...
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U.S. colleges, universities brace for loss of international students
The Trump administration is capping the length of time international students can legally remain in the U.S., and declines in their enrollment could spell disaster for colleges and universities.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Curbing international student visas, cutting the D/S status and eating into post-grad training, putting countries on no-entry lists can destroy higher ed much faster than cutting federal funds, and the bastards know it
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Alfred McCoy in conversation about his new book, Cold War on five Continents. With @wassimdaghrir.bsky.social, Molly Geidel, @rpanchasi.bsky.social, & @historyned.bsky.social. Hosted by me & @yosra999.bsky.social.
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New Routes in Transnational American Studies #6 - Cold War on Five Continents
YouTube video by John Munro
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 24/09/2026
"Calling the Mountains in East and West: A Contrastive Corpus Analysis on the Language of German Climbing Communities" by Katharina Claudia Hummel & Robert Cornelis Schuppe: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection, Seismic Shifts in Mountaineering
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Calling the Mountains in East and West: A Contrastive Corpus Analysis on the Language of German Climbing Communities
Across Germany, cultural and linguistic norms in climbing communities differ significantly. Many of the differences which developed during the separation of the country into two independent states can...
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African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📢 Call for Papers: Meat and Mining How can we rethink mining history by placing animals at the centre of analysis? 🐄🐟⛏️ 📍 Leiden, 1–4 Sept 2027 📝 Abstracts (max. 500 words) + short CV due 𝟭 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🔗 More info: buff.ly/VQkS9hQ
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ZUG_Wien @zug-wien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CfP INWOOD A WORLD OF A THOUSAND CUTS: FORESTS, WOOD, AND INDUSTRIALISATION ACROSS THE GLOBE IN THE 19th AND 20th CENTURIES 📍University of Turin 📆 6-8 July 2027 For further information use this link: inwood.unito.it/events/call-... Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2026
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Call for Papers – INWOOD
European Industrialisation as Seen from the Forests
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‼️ Missile destroys Dukachi jewelry company in Ukraine In Kyiv, 3 more Internet providers reported infrastructure damage: "KIEVNET", "Domonet" and "FAUST".
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The curse of being a Germanist is that you are stuck with Kant even when writing about Curious George
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is starting to look a lot like a Soviet joke about the flea question in a biology exam. Just add fleas to whatever you actually know something about
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A little teaser for Saturday's Annual Salon keynote in Madrid: @langleyshields.bsky.social and @hessephillips.com interviewed panelist Yael van der Wouden on her Women’s Prize-winning novel, The Safekeep ✨ Check it out:
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Van der Wouden on The Safekeep: Complicity, Memory & Desire
The author also talks about how to create a tense journey from wilful ignorance to seeing what was never hidden
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“The El Niño is … a ‘postcard from our future’.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AI has brought about a massive resurgence of anthropocentrism that’s making people forget everything said and written against it in the last 10-20 years. The last sentence sounds completely crazy (today’s Boston Globe)
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just a reminder that today the amazing dr habil Person, my dear friend Kasia, will discuss with me My Correct Opinions on how to write about Jewish history of the ghettos. 2pm BST. Drop everything and register now: www.lvivcenter.org/en/conferenc...
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Overlooked: Online Research Seminars on the History of the Ghettos
April – December 2026
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today's Kyiv after Russian attacks 💔🇺🇦
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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hysterie und Wahn wie in der McCarthy-Ära. Was Springer da seit Sonntag betreibt, hat natürlich nur ein Ziel: Die Menschen permanent in Angst und Schrecken zu versetzen und so der AfD zuzutreiben.
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Jetzt kippt die deutsche Hauptstadt. Mit Ahmad Mansour

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REGIEREN JETZT CLANS DIE HAUPTSTADT?
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That the US is letting the whole world watch the lowest-quality state TV is quite an accomplishment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Literally state-run TV’: Trump launches YouTube channel amid boycott by US networks
White House press coverage row continues while anchor-less channel of the administration’s ‘latest and greatest’ streams propaganda for the Maga faithful
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now online: 'What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations' by Patrick Eiden-Offe (translated by Adam Baltner).
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What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations - Historical Materialism
Fascisation as a concept concept is threatening to become so broad that it will hardly still be able to describe anything with precision. Time and again, the connections must be conceptually unfolded,...
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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fish on a blue and white plate, 1845 by William Buelow Gould
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Dazzling” – early modern historian of religion, emotions, and monsters Jenny Spinks reviews HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY ( @ucpress.bsky.social ) in the American Historical Review! @historians.org 💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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Surekha Davies. Humans: A Monstrous History
Surekha Davies declares that “[m]onsters are category problems that have to be defanged” (67) in her dazzling new book Humans: A Monstrous History. This po
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