History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon Essays…
At present, describing historians as political actors evokes bias, political manoeuvring and a lack of critical thinking. This description conjures up historians merely as political pundits, rummaging through history in search of evidence to support their own political goals and potentially falling into presentism... Aeon essays #history #politics #government #criticalthinking #presentism
@urlyman this is great! Thank you for sharing it here on #ClimateDiary
And yes, agree with your point - #presentism, short term thinking is such an integral problem of modernity/capitalism
Shallow #presentism is devouring our #politics and as a nation so mired in the fight in front of us that we are struggling to envision a future for ourselves and generations to come.
But as @gothamgirlblue writes, we must ask ourselves: What's next?
https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/08/08/has-america-given-up-on-its-future/
Written a (rambling) blog post about presentism as a form of historical analysis and the deeply problematic views of those who oppose it
https://thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/in-which-i-ramble-about-presentism-8e67ddc20627
The absurdity of arguing that someone was “just a man of his time”. #111Words #SethCotlar #MarkHatfield #WalterHuss #MartinLutherKingJr #Presentism https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-absurdity-of-arguing-that-someone.html
I just finished #AliSmith ‘s #CompanionPiece and feel like she’s unlocked something inside me too (like in Martina Inglis/Pelf). What I love above all is how she breaks open the shallow flat #presentism of modernity and shows how the past and stories are alive in all of us. This is what i’ve been trying to get at, too (as in our @RadicalAnthro
local environmental knowledge workshop) - but she does it so so brilliantly #Bookstodon
Does a caravan pulled by 8 horses value people more than the folks on the side of the ride trying to make the pilgrimage from Europe to Jerusalem in the 8th century?
#presentism #humanity #pilgrimage #horsepower #HolyLand #Jerusalem #histodon
Tomorrow on my live webcast “History Matters:”
The Problem of Presentism
This week’s New Yorker had an article about historians & their work, largely focused on the place of the present in studying the past.
Join us to discuss this BIG question.
Fri. 10AM ET
http://NCHEteach.org/conversations
@SFuntowicz @danmcquillan thank you so much for this - just downloaded it and read abstract, but i think it really chimes with a few things i’m thinking about just now - what kind of knowledge is given validity, and how that shapes things, and also #Presentism - badly articulated here ⬇️ Really looking forward to reading it
Roald #Dahl book #revisions ‘absurd censorship,’ Salman #Rushdie says - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/02/19/roald-dahl-books-revisions-salman-rushdie/
@pvonhellermannn Is #Presentism really the heart of the issue, or is it a question of *which* present we choose to situate ourselves in? We can remain ensconced within the numbing illusion of extractive capitalist surplus, or we can awaken to the immediate catastrophe of burning forests, bleaching corals, and species die-offs.
Thinking just now about how #Presentism - mainly living in and thinking about the present - is such a key feature of #Modernity, and how this alone has played such a key role in both creating the #ClimateCrisis and in our collective inability to address it. It’s so deeply engrained in our politics (electoral cycle), economics and senses of selves. We need to rediscover deeper connections to both past and future
@WelshPhotographer @MyWildlifeAllotment that all sounds wonderful- really looking forward to seeing your toots here. I know so little about Wales, but really interested in how there is both a deeper connection to the past and a much more forward thinking, future oriented politics there - Commissioner for the Future and all. I feel the two are linked - in fact, it’s making me think just now about #Presentism: so much a feature of modernity, so destructive
📣#CfP: What Does “#Presentism” Stand For? Towards a Critical Appraisal of the Presentist “Turn”
The #conference will be hosted by the #NewEuropeCollege, Bucharest on 26 October
2023 and will be held in a hybrid format, both in person and online, via Zoom. Please submit a
one-page abstract by 15 April 2023. More details here:
the problem is that we have no history of using algorithms to pretend to serve as therapists, so the techbro in charge had no way of knowing what would happen when he tried it with #ChatGPT https://gizmodo.com/mental-health-therapy-app-ai-koko-chatgpt-rob-morris-1849965534 #AI #ELIZA #presentism
Wait, what? Episode 3 of season 3 of #ViennaBlood paints a—let me put it mildly—somewhat fringe picture of the Austrian Revolution of March 1848, that led to the toppling of the Metternich regime. The episode makes it look like it was a German nationalistic affair only. Which it was not, not by far. Well, it obviously fits the narrative of the episode. Coincidentally, the English Wikipedia article has the same spin, while the German one is much more nuanced. Ah well, #presentism :blobcatshrug:
“The future depends on educators, in coalition with other movements to create an equitable society, to demand and make change here in the present.”
https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/fighting-back-against-the-future
#futurism #education #educators #equity #change #presentism #criticalthinking #resistance
New philosophy video, this time on the recent paper "An Empirical Argument for Presentism" by David Builes and Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello.
