from sociology back to methodology?
25.02.2026 22:26
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from sociology back to methodology?
Anyone else sense, in this new AI world, a turn from digital humanities to essential, irreducible value of what we do in humanities?
A lot of anger about treatment of U.S. women’s hockey team, understandably. The best thing right now is to go watch women’s sport. Go to a college, high school, or little league Game. Just show your support in person. It’s fun and it matters.
Brilliant piece, and a public service to put these foul and upsetting pieces together.
Here is hoping! There have been several posts about how the Epstein files overall indict the academic star system, which rewards academics for emulating the systems they want to critique.
What has kept me up is that if Chomsky couldn‘t withstand the allure of wealth & power, who will be able to?
It’s been an open secret about Chomsky & Epstein for awhile (WSJ reported two years ago), but I think many people will *finally* have to stop making exceptions for Chomsky now: www.bbc.com/news/article...
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
Im around if they need any local guidance once here
Really painful to bear witness to the pile up of layoffs being announced on X right now. Devastating loss of book section and global reporting at a moment when we couldn’t need it more…
My partner met Catherine O'Hara a few times backstage. One thing he noted about her was that she remembered everybody's name, including his, long after meeting. She was warm and excited to meet people even when the cameras were far away. RIP, to a Canadian Goddess.
“The technologies are being deployed...in a much more aggressive way than we have seen in the past,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, a lawyer at the ACLU...“The conglomeration of all these technologies together is giving the government unprecedented abilities.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
"ICE...is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones. And agents are tapping into a database...that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing..."
I wrote for the New York Times about how state violence that was hidden in the borderlands has burst into view in Minneapolis. The solution cannot be simply to send it back there www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Everyone read this and share it - Reece is the guy that literally wrote THE book on the history of the Border Patrol. I've been screaming that everyone needs to talk to him and read his book NOBODY IS PROTECTED for years. HAVE HIM ON YOUR SHOW.
"The Revolution to Come brilliantly reveals the genealogy of the modern concept of revolution. After it, the study of revolution will never look the same again," says @davidrarmitage.bsky.social for @historytoday.com. Read the full review of Dan Edelstein's new book here:
Congrats. Have been looking forward for awhile!
You are not alone and you are loved ❤️
I used to eat tortilla chips and marinara when my partner was away…
Ha, yes!
I wore my Roots sweatpants to the gym this morning and met four Canadians.
I get it. We have so much of Percy's work thanks to the intervention of Mary & the stewarding practices of his daughter-in-law Lady Shelley. But comparatively there are no drafts from earlier novelists b/c the private practice wasn't to save them or even letters for future generations. A shame.
Hello fellow soccer person!
Ha, yes. I'm used to it and I rather like this version!
Also pretty cool to be reviewed alongside @becquer.bsky.social whose book I read in draft as I was writing my own. Book buddies!
I thought this book was done and settled, but the wonderful Jeaninne DeLombard, whose work I admire, has taken the time to review it for Novel. She really gets the stakes of my book, esp. its interdisciplinary lens and her words are helpful as I write my new book. read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...
I've thought about this a lot -even wrote a little about it once. It wasn't common practice to save manuscripts in the 18c. That is more of a 19c practice. Archiving, legacy-building is all a post-Romantic writer practice.
Haha I know.
No. Lol. I know plenty of tromboners and this is an insult to them.
Congrats!