#laphamsquarterly — Public Fediverse posts

An #obituary for the remarkable Lewis Lapham, creator of the amazing Lapham’s Quarterly:

“On The Remarkable Legacy Of Lewis Lapham” [2024], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-lapham/).

#LewisLapham #LaphamsQuarterly #Writing #Editing #Publishing #Style #Lapham #RIP

An #obituary for the remarkable Lewis Lapham, creator of the amazing Lapham’s Quarterly:

“On The Remarkable Legacy Of Lewis Lapham” [2024], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-lapham/).

#LewisLapham #LaphamsQuarterly #Writing #Editing #Publishing #Style #Lapham #RIP

An #obituary for the remarkable Lewis Lapham, creator of the amazing Lapham’s Quarterly:

“On The Remarkable Legacy Of Lewis Lapham” [2024], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-lapham/).

#LewisLapham #LaphamsQuarterly #Writing #Editing #Publishing #Style #Lapham #RIP

An #obituary for the remarkable Lewis Lapham, creator of the amazing Lapham’s Quarterly:

“On The Remarkable Legacy Of Lewis Lapham” [2024], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-lapham/).

#LewisLapham #LaphamsQuarterly #Writing #Editing #Publishing #Style #Lapham #RIP

An #obituary for the remarkable Lewis Lapham, creator of the amazing Lapham’s Quarterly:

“On The Remarkable Legacy Of Lewis Lapham” [2024], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-lapham/).

#LewisLapham #LaphamsQuarterly #Writing #Editing #Publishing #Style #Lapham #RIP

All Good Editors Are Pirates: In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/all-good-editors-are-pirates

#HackerNews #AllGoodEditorsArePirates #LewisHLapham #EditorsInMemory #JournalismPirates #LaphamsQuarterly

Ah, Lapham's Quarterly, bravely transitioning to the stewardship of Bard College by 2025, because nothing screams cutting-edge relevance like a well-timed academic takeover. 🎓🗞️ Clearly, the best way to invigorate a publication is to align with the thrilling world of political humanities. 😴📚
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/laphams-quarterly-announces-new-stewardship #LaphamsQuarterly #BardCollege #AcademicTakeover #PoliticalHumanities #PublishingNews #HackerNews #ngated

Lapham's Quarterly Announces New Stewardship

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/laphams-quarterly-announces-new-stewardship

#HackerNews #LaphamsQuarterly #NewStewardship #Publishing #News #Update #Literature

> Throughout the nineteenth century, as #CaraNewDaggett explains in her book The #BirthOfEnergy, work became increasingly understood through energy-based metaphors. This association was catalyzed by the “discovery” of energy itself in the 1840s by a group of British scientists and engineers who used steam-engine experiments to develop the laws of thermodynamics.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/energy/what-human-energy
#HumanEnergy in #LaphamsQuarterly

> The author of two best-selling book-length self-promotions, Obama was elected by virtue of his celebrity, a commodity meant to be sold at the supermarket with the cosmetics and the canned soup, elevated to the office of a totem pole.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/dancing-stars
#SweetCelebrity #Obama #SelfPromotion #CelebrityObama #AdvertisingGods #LewisLapham in #LaphamsQuarterly on #ModernMedia

> .. the reverence for monarchy in 1823, William Hazlitt likened it to “a natural infirmity, a disease, a false appetite in the popular feeling, which must be gratified.” The dream-buying public wants a “peg or loop to hang its idle fancies on, a puppet to dress up, a lay figure to paint from.” The idol is best made from poor or worthless raw material because it is then subject to the whim of its manufacturer.
https://tomdispatch.com/lewis-lapham-sweet-celebrity/
#BritishMonarchy in #LaphamsQuarterly #LewisLapham

> The camera sees but doesn’t think.

> As the habits of mind beholden to the rule of images come to replace the structures of thought derived from the meaning of words, the constant viewer eliminates the association of cause with effect, learns that nothing necessarily follows from anything else.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/dancing-stars
#LewisLapham #SweetCelebrity #DancingWithTheStars in #LaphamsQuarterly
#LaphamOnTheCamera #TheCamera #CauseAndEffect

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> 1 CHARCOAL
Because charcoal burns hot enough for metalworking, premodern technological advances were frequently associated with increased production of the fuel. At one Iron Age site in Israel, an estimated 4,100 trees and 185,000 shrubs were turned into charcoal over the course of a century.

One day I will learn to make timelines and this will be the basis for one of them.

#EnergyThroughTheAges

#PowerBeforePetroleum at
#LaphamsQuarterly

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/energy/maps/power-petroleum

Can we bring back the word #animalcule

#Leeuwenhoek #bacteria #protozoology #LaphamsQuarterly

"I have seen several hundred animalcules caught fast by one another in a few filaments, lying within the compass of a coarse grain of sand."

https://mailchi.mp/cea34365b015/back-matter-the-birth-of-bacteriology?e=330ea4ada4

Can we bring back the word #animalcule

#Leeuwenhoek #bacteria #protozoology #LaphamsQuarterly

"I have seen several hundred animalcules caught fast by one another in a few filaments, lying within the compass of a coarse grain of sand."

https://mailchi.mp/cea34365b015/back-matter-the-birth-of-bacteriology?e=330ea4ada4

Can we bring back the word #animalcule

#Leeuwenhoek #bacteria #protozoology #LaphamsQuarterly

"I have seen several hundred animalcules caught fast by one another in a few filaments, lying within the compass of a coarse grain of sand."

https://mailchi.mp/cea34365b015/back-matter-the-birth-of-bacteriology?e=330ea4ada4

Can we bring back the word #animalcule

#Leeuwenhoek #bacteria #protozoology #LaphamsQuarterly

"I have seen several hundred animalcules caught fast by one another in a few filaments, lying within the compass of a coarse grain of sand."

https://mailchi.mp/cea34365b015/back-matter-the-birth-of-bacteriology?e=330ea4ada4

Can we bring back the word #animalcule

#Leeuwenhoek #bacteria #protozoology #LaphamsQuarterly

"I have seen several hundred animalcules caught fast by one another in a few filaments, lying within the compass of a coarse grain of sand."

https://mailchi.mp/cea34365b015/back-matter-the-birth-of-bacteriology?e=330ea4ada4

Right Living, Right Acting, and Right Thinking: excerpt from FIT CITIZENS: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America by Ava Purkiss https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/right-living-right-acting-and-right-thinking via #LaphamsQuarterly

Want some truly #traditional #cooking? Maybe these 4000 year old #Mesopotamian #clayTablets that turned out to contain ancient #recipes are just the thing for you: https://text.npr.org/r.php?id=779930201

While the #NPR article gives a nice overview of the these tablets and their history, if you want an example of some of the recipes, you'll have to head over to #LaphamsQuarterly for the source article: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ancient-mesopotamian-tablet-cookbook

#Mesopotamia #Babylonia #cuneiform #GojkoBarjamovic #Syria #Iraq #Turkey #recipe

Want some truly #traditional #cooking? Maybe these 4000 year old #Mesopotamian #clayTablets that turned out to contain ancient #recipes are just the thing for you: https://text.npr.org/r.php?id=779930201

While the #NPR article gives a nice overview of the these tablets and their history, if you want an example of some of the recipes, you'll have to head over to #LaphamsQuarterly for the source article: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ancient-mesopotamian-tablet-cookbook

#Mesopotamia #Babylonia #cuneiform #GojkoBarjamovic #Syria #Iraq #Turkey #recipe

@KelsonV
It's worth noting that while the #NPR article does not contain any of the recipes, the source article on #LaphamsQuarterly it links to, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ancient-mesopotamian-tablet-cookbook, fortunately does. :D