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Zac Endter @zacendter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations to my friend and colleague @jacobsaliba.bsky.social on the publication of this major volume of new translations (and an excellent interview).

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beneath every historical concept of technology lies a different concept of the hand, writes Rae Bruml Norton in the JHI Blog’s technology forum. When we hear claims that technology has become separate from the craft of the hand, we must ask just which "hand" is being discussed.

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Concepts of Hand and Technology

Rather than conceiving of humans and machines through their opposition, we must track their conceptual relationship to a third term: the hand....

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Lachlan Kermode @ohrg.org · 21/09/2026

Can't sleep at night for want of knowledge gardens (Zettelkasten-style) in Typst? Stay awake no longer because rookery is here: rookery.ohrg.org

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Zac Endter @zacendter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the spontaneous generation of fruit-fly authors

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Zac Endter @zacendter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thank you for your interest and encouragement. I just added your book to the section on prediction and governmentality!

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Zac Endter @zacendter.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We put together what I think is a great reading list on histories of the future, but we will keep updating it until the fall, so please send me any suggestions, especially if you’re familiar with a region that isn’t yet well-represented here.

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Zac Endter @zacendter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Please share this with fellow graduate students! We have been hard at work on a bibliography on this theme, too, which we'll publish in a couple of weeks.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Today on the blog, Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch interview Edward Baring about his forthcoming book, "Vulgar Marxism," which studies how projects for worker education shaped 20th-c. Marxist thought. @uchicagopress.bsky.social @samfranz.bsky.social

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The Intellectual History of Worker Education: An Interview with Edward Baring

by Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

For the JHI Blog, Rose Facchini interviewed Gisèle Sapiro about her latest book, "Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur mondial? Le champ littéraire transnational" (Seuil, 2024), which studies the role of intermediaries, translators, and mediators in the making of world authorship. @rosefacchini.bsky.social

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Literature’s Circulation Across Fields and Nations: An Interview with Gisèle Sapiro

by Rose Facchini

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

In a new think piece for the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Marek Maj discusses how, before the Soviet Union's détente with the West, Polish scientists attempted to render intellectual labor more efficient by adapting and revising the Western managerial turn to motivation.

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The Brain as Economy: Intellectual Labor and Mental Efficiency in Twentieth-Century Poland

by Marek Maj This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Benjamín Gaillard-Garrido interviews Beverley Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx's Capital (Verso, 2024), which dissects the third volume of Marx's Capital to reveal capital's means of appearance. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...

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Capital’s Singular Dynamic: An Interview with Beverley Best

by Benjamín Gaillard-Garrido

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Sam Franz @samhfranz.com · 05/08/2025

Brief reflection on materialist and Marxist approaches to the history of science in the latest HSS Newsletter, co-authored with @bolman.bsky.social & Claire Votava cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism. @alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social

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The Production of Nature: An Interview with Alyssa Battistoni

by Jochen Schmon

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Rose Facchini (@rosefacchini.bsky.social) interviewed Anna Ferrando about the practice of literary agency in Italy before and during World War II, a history that explains the peculiar fact that Fascist Italy ranked among the greatest consumers of foreign literature.

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How Literary Agents Made Italian Publishing Transnational: An Interview with Anna Ferrando

by Rose Facchini

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maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

an honor to be interviewed by Robin Manley for @jhideas.bsky.social - come for the spicy takes on critical AI and media history, stay for the stuff on Saussure and dialectics

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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It was an absolute pleasure to chat to @rosefacchini.bsky.social for @jhideas.bsky.social about my book Translation Multiples, which is now officially out (@princetonupress.bsky.social)! I love the cover image and the title for this interview: "Translation in Different Keys". Thank you, Rose & Zach!

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Zac Endter @zacendter.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Thank you, Kasia! Always a relief when the author likes the title and image. It was a pleasure to work with you, too.

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Daniel Judt discusses with Jonathan Levy, author of the recently published "The Real Economy" (@princetonupress.bsky.social), what we can gain from studying the issues that occupied the less epistemologically constrained economic theories of the early twentieth century.

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Storage, Investment, and Desire: An Interview with Jonathan Levy

by Daniel Judt

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Engaging with several previously untranslated texts, Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano, editors of Bataille's Critical Essays (@uchicagopress.bsky.social), discussed the historical reception and contemporary relevance of Bataille's work with Jared Bly.

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The Other Bataille: An Interview with Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano

by Jared Bly

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