Notebook from July

Oldest to newest

1. Surf cinema

2. Audrey Watters's "Teaching Machines"

3. Teotihuacan

4. Coinage of "the state"

5. Defining "the state"

6. Property rights and the West

7. Property and violence

8. Three elementary forms of domination

9. William Morris' post-capitalist future

10. "News from Nowhere"

11. "Dolly"

12. James C. Scott's "dissimulation"

13. Techne and art

14. Fremeaux and Jordan on grace

15. The sacred and attention

16. Against social media and its consolidating effects

17. National Education Policy Center statement on AI

18. Marc Watkins' "Rhetorica"

19. Humanities educational objectives

20. The humanities and world literature

21. The humanities and philosophical perspectives

22. The humanities, personhood, and citizenship

23. The humanities and writing

24. The humanities and cultural transmission

25. The humanities and media aesthetics

26. The humanities and language

27. The humanities and poetry

28. Privilege and sociality

29. Patients as producers of knowledge

30. The subject and the world, for Wittgenstein

31. The emptiness of madness

32. Recent books by men and about masculinity

33. Vicky Osterweil on incarceration

34. What academics do vs. what LLMs do

35. Art history pedagogical exercise

36. The internal world and the home

37. Technological developments in the Middle Ages

38. The poor in the Middle Ages

39. Invented traditions

40. The Mont Pelerin Society

41. Republics, tyrannies, and civic humanism

42. Steve Bannon and "citizenship value"

43. Wilhelm Röpke

44. 2015- :"Volk capital"

45. Slobodian's "neurocastes"

46. The right-wing interest in gold

47. Cecil Taylor's "88 tuned drums"

48. What khipu encodes (possibly)

49. Alfred Kroeber and the laws of cultural growth and decay

50. Against "collapse" as such

51. Egyptian "intermediate" periods

52. The history of loose political associations

53. 1500-1000 BC: The Olmec

54. Organized power and ritual among the Olmec