UK grocer Sainsbury’s have digitized and uploaded their entire collection of store-brand packaging materials, mostly dating from the 1950s-1980s. [via @mathowie] The full archive is a surprisingly comprehensive treasure-trove that contains images of n…
Rightwing culture warriors do not define Britishness | Letters
Readers respond to Kojo Koram’s article about the Tory preoccupation with dictating our national storyKojo Koram provides a useful corrective to the common, narrow perception of culture he describes (Here’s what the right gets wrong about culture: it’s…
Not So Paleo, Actually
Wild grain by ibm4381 (cc by)clew’s post Stones speak and ashes live explores recent archeological research and evidence that “shred the long-standing idea that early people subsisted mainly on meat.”
The Gospel of Philip K. Dick & thepostarchive
The Gospel of Phillip K. Dick from thepostarchive, the latter of which is an incredible and ongoing labor of love compiled by a self described ”NB PoC trying archivist collecting between and through institutions.” Wherein you can find for now, among s…
Just a Girl
An essay about Briseis’s story, and yours. The academic part of your brain knows that no text is about one thing. The Iliad is about a million things, but for you, right now, it’s really just a story about how women have to pay terrible prices for what…
An organizing motto for their grief
After Bobby McIlvaine died on September 11, 2001, his family’s grief ravelled in many different ways. In a sensitive, and often surprising, account, Jennifer Senior traces the tangled threads to their unexpected destinations in the present.
Summer of Soul
In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns [ungated link] – “Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Mavis Staples and others shine in a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival from Questlove.” (via) [1,2,3; fanfare] Sometimes these archival-footage documen…
Statecraft needs stagecraft. The sites of landmark diplomacy
The Rooms Where It Happened Theatres are physical structures. Creative works – plays, operas, concerts, dance – make their home in them for a brief moment in time. Then they disappear. The building remains, but only memories linger. The spaces in which…
Video killed the radio star
The very first two hours of MTV [SlYT]
SFが生み出した造語を網羅する「SF歴史辞典」は、“未来を予測してきた過去”を編み上げる
スペースコロニーの初登場から超空間へ最初にジャンプした人物までを網羅する「SF歴史辞典」は、SFがこの1世紀で定義してきた造語（および新解釈）の歴史を1,800項目にもわたって網羅している。「未来を予測することを使命としていた過去の記録」であるそれは、SFというジャンルを再定義するだけでなく、造語や新解釈がさまざまな作家の作品間でつながり合っている事実を明らかにすることで、こうした言葉に現実世界での物語も与えている。
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