notebook from july

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1. Humanists and truth

2. Humanist knowledge

3. Hayot's critique of science

4. Feminism as the product of "humanist truth"

5. Chad Wellmon's "Organizing Enlightenment"

6. Activism and study

7. Communities of attention

8. "Muses of the attentive spirit"

9. Against measurable attention

10. "Chunkey"

11. The Corn Mother

12. Administrative esoterica

13. Spiritual reformations in history

14. "The decorative"

15. Derrida’s "The Truth in Painting"

16. Jules Prown

17. Possible Osage influence on Montesquieu

18. The "political history" of Indigenous America

19. The Gayanashagowa

20. Horsemeat as entropy in the system

21. Matt Webb's thread of "personally resonant" words

22. Amit Chaudhuri's "Incompleteness"

23. "Attention sanctuaries"

24. Art and attention

25. "Monocultural attention"

26. On distraction

27. William James and the phenomenology of attention

28. Deaths from sanctions

29. League of the Five Nations

30. The origins of modern social theory

31. Inventions discovered via play and art

32. Has war always existed?

33. Duchamp's "infrathin"

34. 1200-1350: The Mongols and the spread of the dumpling

35. Change in US food prices

36. "Emotive strategy"

37. Can bombs destroy a city?

38. Can bombs destroy industrial production?

39. On strategic airpower

40. Wayne E. Lee's "Waging War"

41. Kathleen Fitzpatrick's "Generous Thinking"

42. Adam Kotsko's "Not Persuasion, But Power"

43. The value of "humanist reason"

44. What is "humanist reason?"

45. "Capitalism and Disability"

46. Colby Chamberlain's "Fluxus Administration"

47. Statistics and modes of control

48. Franco Moretti's "Distant Reading"

49. "Idiographic disciplines"