In French class we received a kissing map so we will know how many kisses to give depending on where we go in France
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In French class we received a kissing map so we will know how many kisses to give depending on where we go in France
Far from the snow
When Hannah Arendt described finding her husband by chance in the South of France at the village market next to a stack of mattresses I always had a hard time picturing what that looked like, until this morning.
Spring walk
Carcassonne’s torture museum has a display of a writer collapsed at his desk.
se abdere in bibliothecam suam
to bury oneself in one's library
"Are you the one," I ask, "whom Dante hear dictate the lines of his Inferno?" She answers: "Yes."
— Anna Akhmatova
Tonight! at 6pm ET (online)
Join me for a conversation with Barbara Wansbrough bout her debut book, Wild Things: A Geography of Grief
Link here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
W.S. Merwin
Racism is and has always been central to fascist political ideology.
Thank you to everyone who donated and attended the reading of Hannah Arendt's essay "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship" last night. Here's the recording: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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For more about Arendt, take a listen to the conversation with @jackewilson.bsky.social and Samantha Rose Hill about her biography of Arendt. #books #hannaharendt @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Take a journey through Hannah Arendt's life and work with me this February at the JTA, where we'll explore the key concepts and ideas that animate Arendt's work through a close reading of The Human Condition!
Registration: my-jewish-learning.teachable.com/p/hannah-are...
20% discount code: HUMAN20
In response to the unfolding terror in Minnesota I wanted to create a space to come together. I’m hosting a book club on Hannah Arendt’s essay Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship next Tuesday to raise money for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota samantharosehill.substack.com/p/a-special-bo
Teaching Kafka tonight
Louise Glück
“Defensive shots” is Orwellian language for a gang of masked armed state agents firing at least ten shots into a man pinned face-down in the street. They don't need a reason, they'll make one up after the fact. Political lies become common speech to cover up crimes.
This is how fascism comes to America. It’s the endless events, day after day, until one day you wake up in a different country. Anti-immigrant rhetoric, censorship, attacks on universities, masked terror squads murdering people in the streets, enemy lists, denaturalization, camps
Macron Davos 2026 directed by Godard
"A lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history."
— Hannah Arendt
Favorites thinkers, writers, and philosophers of desire? (living)
Only one other person in history has accepted a Nobel prize as a gesture of thanks
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
She enjoys morning writing time
Meet Brontë
She loves speaking French, ear scratches, and sleeping.
From the ever brilliant and courageous Louise Adler who is a champion of writers, free speech, and democratic values in dark times
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The collected poems of hannah arendt with the named translators alongside a breakfast of pain au chocolate and espresso
Perfect start to the day with words by Hannah Arendt, translated by @samantharhill.bsky.social and @genesegrill.bsky.social
“A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents, but as an instrument to rule masses of people who are perfectly obedient.”
— Hannah Arendt