Notes from July 2026
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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"

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