Resharing as I’m rewriting some of this chapter, and because conspiracy and violence remain… top of mind and hand
17.06.2025 02:18
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Resharing as I’m rewriting some of this chapter, and because conspiracy and violence remain… top of mind and hand
repeat after me: people are more important than photographs of people.
“Behold the new Sun King, a wannabe emperor who views his powers as absolute — who governs by executive order, and has been recorded giggling in his gilded chamber with Salvadoran autocrat Nayib Bukele ... God save us from the king.”
My latest in WaPo:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
May I recommend my book if you want fires, oil spills, eugenics, earthquakes, mudslides, unfriendly neighbors, the mores of the wealthy, beautiful beaches and mountains, and a reference to HBO’s Succession AND the Duchess of Sussex in one tidy package on sale? press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
appreciate you and y’all’s labor. here to help if needed 🫡
As someone who was (going) to participate in this program, this is heartbreaking news.
book/print history folks: what are your favorite texts on the environmental/material/political history of paper (specifically 20th century paper from trees)?
An illustration depicting an assortment of features
Peacock feathers
Phyllis Wheatley using a quill pen
A woman in a feathered dress, surrounded by birds
Material Intelligence has released a new issue on 🪶feathers🪶 — from feathered baskets and quills to beds and hats!
(I wrote about sandpaper for their sand issue a few months ago :)
www.materialintelligencemag.org
will slowly share some contemporary inspiration for this work….first up:
Joe Minter’s Four Hundred Years of Free Labor, 1995.
Front cover visual of a book, reproducing a painting of a seated woman in a red dress with a long white apron, sitting and working on some kind of hand craft (weaving or embroidery?) in her lap.
New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social -
Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, & Material Culture
Ed. @sarahabendall.bsky.social & @serenadyer.bsky.social
aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Read the intro (no paywall!) here: assets.ctfassets.net/4wrp2um278k7...
let me know what you think :)!
thanks for your engagement!!
the most generous of historians!
means the world coming from
you! thanks for amplifying :)
does anyone else feel there’s shift in how folks are discussing the archive? i’ve started noticing the use of archival “abundance” instead of absences and silences with frequency.
“Crafting Freedom: Race and Social Mobility among Free Artisans of Color in Cartagena and Charleston,” Atlantic Studies (2017). www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
thanks for building ! So helpful
ok trying this: pleased to share the first bit of my dissertation!
“Insurgent tooling and the collective making of slave revolts”
hi all, i’m new here: my name is hampton, i’m working on a dissertation about artisanal knowledge and abolition, particularly in the United States.
some of my writing can be found at my website:
hamptondessmith.com