@thereriver

very small megafauna, very big potato. a luta continua. organizer @MimbresSchool. black studies at warwick. they/ele

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i am just here to complain
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turns out spending four consecutive hours teaching how racialist theories work claim by claim, move by rhetorical move, is fucking soul crushing
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how bad can next week be
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embarrassing for me that i would wear this outfit
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alírio retweeted
Joãofi@joaofilimasOct 25
Meu pai perdoou a ex dele quando ela tentou matar ele, mas terminou imediatamente no dia que ela falou mal do Lula
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LULA
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assigning my students romanus pontifex 1455 so i never have to read another paragraph-long sentence
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He does not know how the chicago manual of style works
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why do people assume the inclusion of a text on a syllabus is necessarily laudatory
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sometimes i accidentally wander over to threads
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it is payday and i will not buy more books, it is payday and i will not buy more books, it is payday and i will not
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was reading bodin with my undergrads, and he starts talking about galen, using him as a piece of his evidentiary armor. but the galen he's talking about is an artefact of a thousand years of telephone
alírio@thereriverOct 23
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and when they spouted hot nonsense, it wasn't with a kind of rigorous attachment to a coherent nonsense theory that preceded them. there was a vibe of a theory that they vibed their own version of
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the difference between galen and bodin's invokation was obvious to my students, who had read galen a week before. but surely bodin had 'mastered' his classics
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maybe its just the early scholars i've read, but 'mastery' is not a concept that i would apply to them. even the foundational big shots spouted hot nonsense all the time
𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝@rawatthekiidOct 22
how did earlier scholars master mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and religious law, while most scholars today struggle with basic academic literacy? when did scholarship become so intellectually impoverished.
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and when they spouted hot nonsense, it wasn't with a kind of rigorous attachment to a coherent nonsense theory that preceded them. there was a vibe of a theory that they vibed their own version of
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that's a way of developing authority, sure, but it isn't the same as a rigorously literate understanding of what has come before you
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PROBLEMATIC AGE GAP. MY PARTNER IS STILL MAKING STONE HANDAXES WHILE I AM ADORNED IN BEAUTIFUL BRONZE
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aliriophobic that this is happening tbh
drumm colin (Chicago)@drumm_colinOct 20
Mimbres School bar night in Bed Stuy on Monday, Nov 2. All welcome; bring friends. DM for details.
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this week's old timey stuff is also fun because it was teaching material
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the student who complained last year about the theoretical lenses they were taught in gets a taste of the methodus
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bad enough to read this stuff as specimen-in-jar, imagine having to study it as truth!
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