The Hundred Years War created a sense of nationhood, especially in France. In England, the Anglo-Norman dialect died out, and though French was still part of the equipment of ladies and gentlemen, it was Parisian French they learned, and they learned it as a foreign tongue. In France, speaking English was enough to get your throat cut – because, after all, who spoke English except the English?
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We had our shoes off and maybe this was a place where we were washing for gold, somewhat lost in the world.
In discussions of translation, we hear a lot about difficulty, impossibility, loss, riches, invention, triumph – all justified and interesting avenues. But texts may suggest something else: agreement, for example, or honourable hard work. In Proust’s case, when the topic is memory and chance, the convergences are remarkable.
Netflix has reversed the classical publishing strategy of throwing content at the wall of public indifference in the hope something will stick. It sees a scattered public whose attention can be pinned under a toppling wall of content.
Time passes more intensely in dreams. It is a Robert Louis Stevenson hallmark, the quicksilver evolution of thought and the fabular turn, the victory of original perception. He was born with what he later called an ‘internal theatre’, a mode of production that serves to make the dramas of the mind visible.
You can’t buy what Edinburgh has. You can, however, rent out certain kinds of access to it. This, as David Harvey writes, is a recipe for self-destruction. The influx of international capital produces homogenisation, or worse, Disneyfication.
The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 46 No. 1 (Friday 15 December 2023)
Israel’s security is Germany’s Staatsräson, as Angela Merkel put it in 2008. Solidarity with the Jewish state has burnished Germany’s proud self-image as the only country that makes public remembrance of its criminal past the foundation of its collective identity.
Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 46 No. 1 (Friday 15 December 2023)
Contrary to the myth that from itsa founding document America was dedicated to capitalism, private property and the personal accumulation of wealth, ‘happiness’ in its 18th-century definition meant public – not private – wellbeing. Happiness was not a synonym for property.
The rocks individuated as peopleif you register peopleas individuals, which I do,haplessly, helplessly, when forced,fright or flight or love or _______.The plants need water.The rhododendrons are...
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Many atrocities were committed during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7. Yet the president of the United States continues to repeat debunked falsehoods.
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This is the fourth chapter of my book “The Construction of Reality.” It is about what makes us human.
It’s first draft, so not completely edited, and is a reward for reaching a milestone in our fundraiser. The next milestone is $8,350 (a little over $800 from our current total), and will include chapters:
5. Identity and Identification (how we expand our bodies beyond our physical selves)
6. The Ritual (how we create identification)
7. Interaction ritual (how daily life creates identification and personality)
We learn to be human from other humans. Identity, ideology, language, empathy and role taking all require other humans initiate us.
The year is coming to a close and activity is already ramping down as we approach the Christmas festivities, so this month my PitchBurgh update will cover November and December.
But, before I jump into those updates, and as we are reaching important milestones and PitchBurgh is proving its value to Drupal and the community, let me highlight the importance of the companies that have made PitchBurgh possible with their funding, without whom anything of this would have been possible. Those companies are:
The year is coming to a close and activity is already ramping down as we approach the Christmas festivities, so this month my PitchBurgh update will cover November and December.
But, before I jump into those updates, and as we are reaching important milestones and PitchBurgh is proving its value to Drupal and the community, let me highlight the importance of the companies that have made PitchBurgh possible with their funding, without whom anything of this would have been possible. Those companies are:
The year is coming to a close and activity is already ramping down as we approach the Christmas festivities, so this month my PitchBurgh update will cover November and December.
But, before I jump into those updates, and as we are reaching important milestones and PitchBurgh is proving its value to Drupal and the community, let me highlight the importance of the companies that have made PitchBurgh possible with their funding, without whom anything of this would have been possible. Those companies are:
A year on from the tragic drowning of four people in the English Channel, Nicola Kelly reports on how the Government's plan to "smash" the people smugglers involves further targeting their victims
David Sirota speaks with climate journalist Amy Westervelt about how the fossil fuel industry launders their image through the use of sponsored ‘advertorials.’
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An analysis of the changes in wealth distribution as individuals age from their late 20s to early 50s reveals a substantial degree of persistence at the top 1%.
In the summer of 2023, 88 seasonal fruit pickers employed by Haygrove Farms, largely hailing from Latin America, undertook unofficial strike action in response to alleged wage theft, discrimination, harassment, and poor working conditions. As a recent report by the Landworkers’ Alliance sets out, the post-Brexit seasonal worker visa scheme has facilitated a decline in […]
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