www.thisiscolossal.com > Christopher Jobson
Spectacular Drone Views Of Giza Present the Pyramid in an Unusual Perspective
13 jul. 2021 - Ukrainian photographer Alexander Ladanivskyy travels the world in search of spectacular images including idyllic scenes of Icelandic waterfalls, ancient mountain cities in Jordan, and the collision of history and modernity in Nepal. Last April, he teamed up with the Ministry of Tourism in Egypt to shoot one of the most photographed landmarks on Earth: the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Not satisfied with recreating perspectives found on postcards and Instagram feeds, Ladanivskyy instead used a drone to shoot the 4,600-year-old structure squarely from above at different altitudes.
 · aerial · architecture · design · egypt · history · photography · pyramids

www.nybooks.com > Ian Johnson
A Most Adaptable Party
1 jul. 2021 - The belief that history brought it to power is one of the few ideological constants in the Chinese Communist Party’s hundred-year saga.
 · adaptation · authoritarianism · china · communism · covid-19 · democracy · history · marxism · nationalism · poverty · propaganda

www.groene.nl > Will Tiemeijer
Wat verwachten we van nieuwkomers? Moeten ze net zo bot worden?
9 jun. 2021 - Jaarlijks komen er tienduizenden migranten naar ons land die op een of andere manier moeten worden ingepast. Waarin precies, en hoe? Waarin moeten nieuwkomers eigenlijk integreren? Wie zijn wij? Wie willen wij zijn? Tijd voor een gesprek.
 · diversity · france · germany · history · identity · immigration · integration · nationalism · netherlands · tolerance · united-kingdom

www.wired.com > Megan Molteni
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
13 may. 2021 - All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.
 · covid-19 · healthcare · history · public-health · science

www.thisiscolossal.com > Grace Ebert
The Gaze: Barry Jenkins Directs a Stunning Non-Narrative Film that Preserves the Legacy of Black Ancestors
18 may. 2021 - At the heart of Barry Jenkins’s extraordinarily moving new film is “the Black gaze; or the gaze distilled.” The Oscar-winning director shot the standalone project while filming the TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, which premiered on May 14. Notably titled The Gaze, the parallel project isn’t an episode of the series but rather a compelling collection of non-narrative portraits captured spontaneously alongside the show.
 · art · film · history · video

edition.cnn.com > Samantha Murphy Kelly
The bizarre story of the inventor of ransomware
16 may. 2021 - Eddy Willems was working for an insurance company in Belgium back in December 1989 when he popped the floppy disc into his computer.
 · history · ransomware

www.parool.nl > Patrick Meershoek and Wouter Pocornie
Architect Wouter Pocornie over de Bijlmer: ‘Gum het verleden niet uit’
26 mar. 2021 - Architect Wouter Pocornie (34) groeide op in de Bijlmer. Tegenwoordig onderzoekt hij de zichtbare en onzichtbare sporen van de geschiedenis van het stadsdeel.
 · architecture · bijlmer · history

www.nybooks.com > John Gray
Is Philosophy an Art?
25 mar. 2021 - In Witcraft, Jonathan Rée presents the history of English-language philosophy as a collection of artworks to be appreciated for their aesthetic qualities. But what did philosophers think they were doing?
 · art · history · ludwig-wittgenstein · philosophy · truth

thebaffler.com > Adolph Reed
The Trouble With Uplift
4 sep. 2018 - A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.
 · black-struggle · civil-rights · class-struggle · consumerism · history · identity-politics · inequality · philanthropy · politics · post-woke · reparations · slavery · united-states · white-supremacy

artreview.com > Tom Whyman
The Reverse Marxism of Adam Curtis’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’
10 feb. 2021 - Why it would be better if the filmmaker aspired to be less of a historian, and more of a philosopher.
 · adam-curtis · history · individualism · philosophy

www.parool.nl > Marcel Wiegman and Valika Smeulders
Hoofd geschiedenis Rijksmuseum: ‘Ik wil mensen hun naam teruggeven’
6 feb. 2021 - Voor het eerst heeft het Rijksmuseum een tentoonstelling over slavernij. Hoofd geschiedenis Valika Smeulders (51), opgegroeid in Curaçao en Suriname, richt deze in. Als bijdrage aan het maatschappelijke debat. ‘Alles neemt zijn tijd.’
 · curacao · diversity · history · museums · netherlands · slavery · surinam

www.wired.com > Laurie Penny
The Timelines of Our Lives
18 nov. 2020 - The plot of America is beginning to look a lot like those time travel stories in which society is just one squashed butterfly away from fascism.
 · covid-19 · fascism · futurism · history · time · time-travel

www.nybooks.com > James Romm
What Happened at Masada?
14 jan. 2021 - We know the Roman conquest of Masada only through the account of the enigmatic Jewish historian Josephus, whose shifting allegiances make his motives hard to discern.
 · history · israel · masada

axelarnbak.nl > Axel Arnbak
Vergeten grondrechtenverjaardag EU verdient feest
13 jan. 2021 - Handvest EU-grondrechten bestaat 20 jaar. Het jubileum krijgt nauwelijks aandacht. Toch heeft het Handvest in de EU een grote en groeiende impact.
 · cjeu · data-protection · eu · history · justice · surveillance

www.newyorker.com > Alexis Okeowo
How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life
19 oct. 2020 - The scholar’s provocative writing illuminates stories that have long gone untold.
 · black-struggle · colonialism · critical-fabulation · feminism · ghana · history · inequality · queerness · slavery · united-states

www.nrc.nl > Bastiaan Bommeljé
Racisme, kolonialisme en de infantilisering van de geschiedenis
17 sep. 2020 - Moralisme: Antiracisme of excuses uit het heden kunnen de grens met het verleden niet slechten. Er is niet één juiste manier om naar de geschiedenis te kijken, betoogt Bastiaan Bommeljé.
 · black-struggle · history · netherlands · reparations · slavery