Eric Hounshell
@EricHounshell
historian of social knowledge, modern Europe and US. would usually rather be outdoors. LA🇺🇸/Wien🇦🇹.
How much longer will this continue before we change course?
From Alfred Kroeber, "California Culture Provinces" (1920)
For my seminar, reread this excellent article by Lisa Song and James Temple on the creation of "ghost credits" in carbon offset programs, including on tribal lands. propublica.org/article/the-cl…
Orphaned again!
It was a pleasure to podcast with @tommctague on @TheseTimesPod for the last couple of years. We started with the coronation and ended with a lot of Donald Trump. Thanks very much indeed to @freddiesayers and to everyone who listened. All the comments were much appreciated.
Here for the new Jia Zhanke content
“What is cinema, and what can it become?.” JIA ZHANGKE on Sergei Eisenstein’s BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN The renowned Chinese filmmaker shared five of his favorite films with us, ranging from arthouse staples to Taiwanese New Wave landmarks. lecinemaclub.com/journal/jia-zh…
Been wondering what he's been up to. It felt like he disappeared for a while.
Jia Zhangke’s 'Caught by the Tides,' opening in theaters Friday, captures one of the great treasures of contemporary cinema. Read @RorySeanOC's review: thefilmstage.com/cannes-review-…
It is very easy to get oriented in Vienna as a newcomer, not just bc the Viennese will tell you all about the place in conversation but because the city upholds a long and illustrious tradition of publicly available social statistics.
Das Ergebnis der Wiener Gemeinderats- und Bezirksvertretungswahlen 2025 ist da. Hier seht ihr auch, welche Partei in eurem Bezirk die meisten Stimmen geholt hat. Detaillierte Zahlen findet ihr hier: wien.gv.at/politik/wahlen…
From the official Swiss tourism magazine 1977 issue on the "Walser people." I am pretty sure I shopped at the same village store on a visit to Bosco/Gurin in 2023.
Reading this, haven't felt this sane in a while. Vindicated every hunch I've held since Netflix moved into the neighborhood. nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essay…
I like that the NLR keeps publishing Streeck even though self-identified German speaking lefties won't touch the guy with a 10-foot pole. A short essay on the gap in reception btw the two communities would be interesting.
Coming soon
In 2015, we republished Pope Francis's second encyclical, in which he takes aim at the heart of the world’s problems: capitalism. It has been, and will remain, free to download.
A sad birthday for me today: the National Endowment for the Humanities (@NEHgov) has terminated our grant for publishing Ukrainian literature in English translation effective immediately. This was the first such federal grant we received for our publications in 40+ years. Per the…
Teaching this from James Clifford tomorrow. Among its virtues, it is an unintentional testament to the worth of the humanities (or the "soft" social sciences). And this without any jargon. Zero. Nada.
