Notes from July 2025
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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

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