Last night's talk, the Inaugural Shapiro Lecture in Environmental History at the University of Chicago, is up. This talk begins with a history of the administration of infrastructure and landscape over seven hundred years before turning to the challenging question of how to write…

Good🧵 on the history & failures of modern environmentalism - from 1972 to now. But we have to take such narratives further than “our leaders”. Their roots rest in we, the voters, and especially in the affluent. Gandhi’s greatest sorrow was “the hard-heartedness of the educated”.

“Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is.’” theguardian.com/world/article/…

On the plus side, no one is asking us to talk about AI this week.

Another iconic picture of our insane, world-historical present.

Incredibly proud of Columbia University student leaders who wrote the single best analysis of recent events available anywhere. Shame on The New York Times The Wall Street Journal and other media for failing to accurately report their views. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

thinking of Mike Davis

Citizen-science meets rivers activism again (& filling the gap left by government): The Rivers Trust launches The Big River Watch, a monitoring scheme for local volunteers to report details of pollution.
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Jo Guldi UChicago History Oh heck yes please!

Thank you SO much. That's tonight's entertainment sorted then!

Mom vibes needed, loving protectors of youth requested at MIT today at 1pm.

Last night's talk, the Inaugural Shapiro Lecture in Environmental History at the University of Chicago, is up. This talk begins with a history of the administration of infrastructure and landscape over seven hundred years before turning to the challenging question of how to write…

Jo Guldi Thought I'd missed your talk but then realised it's 11pm BST!

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I’m late to the party, but hua hsu’s book is such a magical account of books, music and zines in the 1990s, what it’s like to grow up trying to learn about the politics of your immigrant parents and the radical generations before you, and the tenderness of young friendships.…

This is a different account of drought and the disappearance of cultures in the southwest than the one I learned. Exciting to contemplate historical moments where people choose to reject hierarchy as a way of life.

2/The prevailing ethos at our universities today is definitely not 'wokeness' or leftism, but pre-professionalism. Careerism has some serious pathologies that negatively affect the intellectual life of the university--overshadowed by the brouhaha about supposedly rampant leftism.