Colin Danby

Colin Danby

@cdanby.bsky.social

Heterodox economist working on race in the history of economic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him. Retired and currently living in London. https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home Photo by Stephanie Seguino

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Ennius
@enniusredloeb.bsky.social

November in this calendar is the time to put flax in a ring and to break it with implements, and to scutch flax with a scutching knife. #MedievalCalendar MS M.399; Da Costa hours, illuminated by Simon Bening; ca. 1515 CE; Belgium; f.12v

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Stuart Elden
@stuartelden.bsky.social

Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche, A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity - @cornellupress.bsky.social, June 2026 cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Gina Stamm newbooksnetwork.com/a-protestant...

cornellpress.cornell.eduA Protestant Air by Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche | Hardcover | Cornell University PressA Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thought: André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roland Barthes. All three came from a...

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Dreadnought Holiday
@dreadships.bsky.social

Ah yes. The wurst käse scenario.

Emily@cat-appreciator.bsky.social

I don’t know if I’ve encountered that one but they do make a godforsaken sausage down here that has cheese in it. I imagine it’s much the same mouthfeel.

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Jo Michell
@jomichell.bsky.social

I've been teaching the recent literature on automation to my third years (Acemoglu and Restrepo's task framework, and Autor and Thompson's expertise framework) and it occurs to me that there is a connection to the Cambridge capital controversies. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

aeaweb.orgAutomation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor(Spring 2019) - We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the ...
Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social

AI consciousness was anticipated in feminist criticisms of "economic man." E.g. Julie Nelson 1995. She notes Hobbes: "Let us consider men ... as if but even now sprung out of the earth, and suddenly, like mushrooms, come to full maturity, without all kind of engagement to each other."

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Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social

Some of these ideas, without the gender part, are also in the papal encyclical. It is the part about being enmeshed in relations of responsibility to others that I keep thinking about, relations that depend on doing, on physical presence, and physical vulnerability. Bodies that matter.

Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social

AI consciousness was anticipated in feminist criticisms of "economic man." E.g. Julie Nelson 1995. She notes Hobbes: "Let us consider men ... as if but even now sprung out of the earth, and suddenly, like mushrooms, come to full maturity, without all kind of engagement to each other."

Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social

and ripostes: "Humans do not simply spring out of the earth. Humans are born of women, nurtured and cared for as dependent children and when aged or ill, socialized into family and community groups, and are perpetually dependent on nourishment and a home to sustain life."

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Paris Marx
@parismarx.com

🚨 TODAY’S THE DAY 📚 After years of work, my new book HYPERSCALE is finally on bookshelves! It chronicles the data center boom just as the backlash is reaching a fever pitch. Get your copy today: hyperscalebook.com

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Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social

“He who does not know how to write thinks it is not work: three fingers write; the whole body labors." ✍️ Veritas.

Ennius@enniusredloeb.bsky.social

The scribe Eadberct's complaint: "Qui nescit scribere putat hoc esse nullum laborem: tres digiti scribant, totum corpus laborat." St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 243; Collectio canonum hibernensis; 1st half of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.254 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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Stacy Fahrenthold
@sfahrenthold.bsky.social

In this explosive follow up to the story about the American Historical Association's use of DC lobbyists to silence AHA member Palestine advocacy, we have this: AHA is conducting a witchhunt of its Council. Loyalty oaths. Lawyers. Threats. Authoritarian behavior. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

chronicle.comOpinion | The AHA Goes BallisticIn response to internal leaks, the scholarly organization spies on members and imposes loyalty oaths.
Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social

Dog socialization progress! Max and Marty meeting larger dogs with no growling or barking. Some credit should go to these two golden retrievers, who are sweet and goofy.

Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social

In other news Marty is looking very svelte post-grooming. Max still looks like one of those fluffy cats, but his grooming date is tomorrow.

Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social

A lovely collection of St. Lukes today, with his trusty ox, from enniusredloeb.bsky.social. My favorite:

Ennius@enniusredloeb.bsky.social

18th October is the feast of St Luke the Evangelist who is depicted here with his symbol at the beginning of his gospel. BL Or 510; The Four Gospels አርባዕቱ ወንጌል; 1664 CE-1665 CE; Gondar, Ethiopia; f.122r @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social

She was a great scholar and a wonderful, generous person.

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social

We are sorry to learn of the death of Duke Professor Ara Wilson, who served on our Editorial Advisory Board and who had a chapters in "Unsettling Queer Anthropology" and "Asian Biotech." Our thoughts are with her family, colleagues, and students. buff.ly/IsLOsxJ

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Stuart Elden
@stuartelden.bsky.social

Today is the 100th anniversary of Foucault's birth. A lot of publications and events have been timed to coincide with this. Here are a few.