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By Jeremy P. Bushnell in notes — 31 May 2026

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Notes on anarchist barbarians, prehistoric earthworks, the originators of the alt-right, "diasporic intimacy," the "post-social media" era, and more

1. Laura U. Marks' "The Fold"

2. Kuzhali Manickavel's "A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School"

3. AI assistance reduces persistence

4. Isabelle Held's "Atomic Bombshells"

5. Carson Winter's "The Corpse Priest"

6. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism"

7. "Moral injury"

9. The cultural accomplishments of non-hierarchical societies

10. Women's knowledge in early civilization

11. Minoan Crete

12. "The ecstasy of being" in Minoan Crete

13. Minoan objects

14. Grain states and anarchist barbarians

15. Slavery and the Axial Age

16. The "Hopewell Interaction Sphere"

17. Hopewell Sphere earthworks

18. Hopewell Sphere visual art

19. Hopewell Sphere ritual

20. Gender equity in Hopewll Sphere cultures

21. Origins of the alt-right

22. Murray Rothbard

23. "Cultural nationalism"

24. African-American exceptionalism vs coalitional politics

25. Gilroy's definition of the "black Atlantic"

26. Blackness and academia

27. Conduits of Pan-African communication

28. Against "syncretism" as such

29. "Disaporic intimacy"

30. Lucy Parsons

31. G. E. R. Lloyd

32. The "alphabetic mind"

33. Breathing, smell, and sight

34. The intangible body

35. Dallas as metaphor

36. Rudolf zur Lippe

37. On nakedness

38. Post-social media studies

39. danah boyd on "parasocial media"