The Memory of Fire: Burning Backwards into the Future
Fire breathes oxygen. Fire consumes organic material. Fire ages and dies. Fire runs, jumps, and simmers. Fire responds differentially to external irritants. Fire has moods. Among many of…
Fire breathes oxygen. Fire consumes organic material. Fire ages and dies. Fire runs, jumps, and simmers. Fire responds differentially to external irritants. Fire has moods. Among many of…
Overseas Vietnamese are estimated to remit 15 billion dollars annually to family that remains in Vietnam. Ivan V. Small moves beyond the numbers to examine how remittances affect…
Zwei Hochhäuser in Italien, die überall stehen könnten: Die Formensprache ist brutalistisch, wobei hier die betongefassten Brüstungen den Eindruck dominieren. Streng genommen sieht man keine Wände, ke…
This week I came across a new LGBTQ+ themed Starbucks commercial that aired in Europe. It moved me, and I hope it will do the same for you.…
Als politisches Verfahren wird das Impeachment Trial oft als Schauprozess bezeichnet. Dabei verpasst man aber den entscheidenden Punkt: Hier werden nicht Lügen als Fakten dargestellt. Es ist umgekehrt…
I went to a Science and Technology Studies (STS) conference in Melbourne recently and listened to a panel of social scientists share their work about psychological disorders. There…
Colonial propaganda that masks “humanitarianism” behind self-interest, and breeds euphemisms that are inversions of reality, constitute the recurring subjects of the critiques produced on Zero Anthrop…
In The Bourdieu Paradigm: The Origins and Evolution of an Intellectual Social Project, Derek Robbins explores the intellectual and social background informing the development of the theoretical perspe…
David Adger is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London, where he is Head of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film. He has served as…
Dear Friends of Footnotes, In a few months, Footnotes will celebrate its second anniversary, and we’ve been through a lot in the past couple of years. Of course,…
For Spanish click here. “So, we have had other mosquito-borne illnesses for a long time, like dengue and chikungunya, and now all of a sudden we should delay…
Joan Gross I just returned to my dissertation fieldwork site after 38 years. Back in the 1980s I examined the use of the regional Gallo-Romance dialect, Walloon, in…
Michi Knecht, Hansjörg Dilger und Carola Lentz antworten in der FAZ auf den Beitrag „Wie weit darf die Verfälschung von Daten gehen?“ (F.A.Z. vom 8. Januar) von Stefan…
On Friday January 31, 2020 the Republican-controlled US Senate chose to vote on the guilt or innocence of one Donald J Trump without the introduction of vital and…
Page 99 of my dissertation about free and open source software in India begins with a description of children dancing at a community centre in a Bengaluru slum.…
Afgelopen vrijdag tweette de leider van Forum voor Democratie, Thierry Baudet, het volgende: Kritische media als we hebben, die gingen gelijk op speurtocht. En wat is de conclusie?…
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Marcus X. Schmid schreibt in seinem Reiseführer „Umbrien“ (Michael-Müller-Verlag) über die 150.000-Einwohnerstadt Terni: Die zerbombten Palazzi im Zentrum hingegen wurden größtenteils durc…
Die „Willkommenskultur“ in der „Flüchtlingskrise“ 2015 rief vielfach und durchaus berechtigt Bewunderung hervor. Doch der humanitäre Einsatz bedeutet nicht Solidarität: Im Blick, im Sprechen und im Ha…
Despite being a lifelong non-coffee-drinker, I somehow found myself reading two fantastic books about coffee recently. The first, Miriam Sagan’s A Hundred Cups of Coffee, hijacked me from…
Are we witnessing in our lifetime the slow destruction of liberal democracy? Have we exhausted the limits of a political system that has served nations for more than…
Hi all, To be fair, it felt it bit more exciting to share link review 350 last week, but time flies and great new content wants to be…
It may sound strange, but wouldn’t it be nice if Trump’s disconnect between endless economic growth and environmental crisis stemmed from pure ignorance. At least if this was…