Posted in Current Issues on January 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Suharto (d. 27 January, 2008). this photo of him was taken when he resigned from power in 1998 (see the resignation!). but I prefer another photo:
here’s Suharto with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, bonding over Suharto’s favourite pasttime of fishing off the balmy coast of Jakarta. I like to think of this photo, place it in [...]
Posted in Links on January 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Logarithmic Maps of the Universe
ok, this is the zenith of cool. also the zenith of geek. but come now, a conformal map projection that preserves local shapes but displays everything from the earth all the way to the cosmic microwave background & the very limits of visibility itself!!1!
(tags: physics geek awesome holycrap maps)
The Origins of [...]
Posted in Links on January 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka (Ten Years Before Independence), on Vimeo
a wonderful documentary sketching the rise of popular democratic movements in British Malaya (against the British, of course). in English and Malay, and an amusingly colonial soundclip by Governor Malcolm MacDonald, which is a language all on its own.
(tags: malaysia history politics video)
Posted in Philosophy of History on January 21, 2008 | 11 Comments »
[warning: very long post. but hopefully interesting]
I’ve been thinking more about explanation & causation in history recently. It seems to me that there are structural elements in both film and narrative that are quite similar to the Humean model of causation: that is to say, images or phrases are placed one after the other, and [...]
Posted in Links on January 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rotting textbook warehouse in Detroit – Boing Boing
a friend sent me this link this morning, and I was like, thanks, I enjoy waking up to photos of OPEN GRAVES
(tags: death booktomb)
Posted in Bookporn on January 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve forgotten the name of this bookstore, but I LOVE it! — I love the crazy chaotic beauty of it. I especially love that the floors are chequered: it compounds the confusion, sucks the eye through the doorways at the back that are lined with yet more books and more crazy chaos. and one can [...]
Posted in PhD, Reflection on January 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I apologize for the interminable silence. Term hasn’t even started and I am neckdeep in work, and feel I cannot possibly read quickly enough.
My fieldwork year abroad is in sight: come this September or so, I’ll be around and about Southeast Asia peering into archives and meeting various generations of intellectuals, politicians and peoples, cobbling [...]
Posted in Bookporn on January 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Most distressingly, my access to the internet has been lukewarm throughout my trip to Paris. Even more distressingly, due to an industrious spurt of bookshop tourism, I have an alarmingly large backlog of Parisian bookporn, which may trickle out over the next few weeks. The first of a series, then: the much-filmed, much-famed Shakespeare and [...]
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