links for 2007-04-29

Pied Beauty: Hopkins, Gerard Manley I would love hopkins much more if not for his tedious god fixation, but here is where it works: “He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: praise him.” (tags: beautiful poetry) Robert Graves: Grace Notes poetry like heartbeats (tags: beautiful poetry)

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notes from a quivering candidate

interview [recall] date: 9 May time: 11.25am The panel will be looking for students with enthusiasm, robustness of intellect, a willingness to engage and an appropriate humility that comes from an awareness that nothing is ever really simple. Candidates will be asked about their work: why it excites them; what they know about the broader [...]

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links for 2007-04-28

Richard C. Carrier: The Function of the Historian in Society on the social function of history (tags: history article) The New Atlantis – Shop Class as Soulcraft – Matthew B. Crawford an old favourite article, rediscovered & needs to be re-read (tags: article ideas interesting technology culture)

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tagged!

also, rather belatedly, I’ve been tagged by the splendid & inestimable Ralph E. Luker over at Cliopatria thank you, Ralph! but I’m not sure that I can single out five “thinking blogs” without doing great injustice, and I generally eschew memes. I’ll do better to get a blogroll running in my sidebar soon, and you [...]

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social function of history

Thesis writing is destroying me. I am beginning to harbour fantasies about carving my cranium open in order to pour my thoughts into some ready-made essay-shaped mould. You see, my entire thesis — argument, sources, structure — is already there, in my head, and merely requires some cunning extraction! Someone must invent a machine for [...]

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links for 2007-04-26

Fascist America in 10 easy steps | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited exhortations of history (tags: america future history democracy politics)

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links for 2007-04-22

One Sentence people write a single sentence that tells their life, or a life-changing moment of it. like short stories distilled into haiku. (tags: blog community concept ideas interesting writing poignant funny) Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, by Steven Pinker “something in modernity and its cultural institutions has made us nobler”, not more violent. an [...]

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links for 2007-04-21

Know Your Rights – Khalwat more idiocy: RM3000 fine or 2yrs imprisonment (or both) for engaging in “immoral activity” (khalwat) w/ member of opposite sex in malaysia under Islamic syariah law. also, no definition of “immoral activity”. (tags: malaysia law ridiculous women islam) ‘I felt more welcome in the Bible belt’ | Special reports | [...]

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links for 2007-04-20

International Law malaysia has only ratified two out of the seven presently-enforced international human rights treaties. this is appalling (tags: malaysia law humanrights terrible)

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facets of academe

have been shortlisted for two (TWO!) full PhD stipend scholarships tenable at cambridge — I am somewhat hysterical as I do not interview well in the least, and have discovered that the interviewing panels for one of them is comprised of no less than nine (NINE!) panelists. Any tips on such things will be most [...]

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