Tag: history

• The Animal Model: 200 Years of Photography | Les Rencontres d’Arles and Photo Elysée — Musée Magazine

  September 30, 2026

  The Animal Model: 200 Years of Photography | Les Rencontres d’Arles and Photo Elysée https://museemagazine.com/culture/2026/9/28/the-animal-model-200-years-of-photography-les-rencontres-darles-and-photo-elyse?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=6abbcfb70e816572ce39ff66&ss_email_id=6abcebdd20e1e200ee26e396&ss_campaign_name=The+Cannibal+Image+Challenges+Photographic+Truth&ss_campaign_sent_date=2026-09-30T11%3A02%3A04Z more ›

• “A Terrific Boomerang Effect”: On Wifredo Lam’s “Rumblings of the Earth”

  September 29, 2026

  Student Zach Ngin investigates artist Wifredo Lam’s representation of the effects of colonialism. https://www.guggenheim.org/articles/checklist/a-terrific-boomerang-effect-on-wifredo-lams-rumblings-of-the-earth more ›

• GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

  September 22, 2026

  Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript. https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio more ›

• Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism

  September 6, 2026

  https://www.ft.com/content/bd134250-00d8-4bfd-bf4b-d32479ac0fed?accessToken=zwAAAaB0AttCkdO9E0JQANhL_dO_S9MkeawP7Q.MEUCIQClH7FSMCrllrbU5xbT_GKXumZTzrLLBY7aoiW7xqTs8AIgR4TGh_n08dMD3pdS6w6cIsKbkPdebMD3imGkAsB7ROo&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareType=enterprise&shareId=ceaa8f3a-53d0-47c4-9379-42bd4a0e4979 more ›

• How Nostalgia Made America Great Again – Nautilus

  August 6, 2026

  When the present looks bleak, we reach for a rose-tinted past. https://nautil.us/how-nostalgia-made-america-great-again-236556 more ›

• The Manhoff Archives – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

  June 25, 2026

  Stalin’s Soviet Union comes to life in full color with the discovery of a long-hidden collection of images. https://www.rferl.org/a/the-manhoff-archive/28359558.html more ›

• Ensemble

  June 9, 2026

  When two instruments in an orchestra play simultaneous pure tones at sufficient intensity, a third tone nobody is playing emerges. more ›

• The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers (Published 2022)

  May 3, 2026

  In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted the French and founded a nation. But France made generations of Haitians pay for their freedom. How much it cost them was a mystery, until… more ›

• Haiti still plagued by ‘independence debt’ 200 years later: ‘We continue to pay this ransom through underdevelopment’

  May 3, 2026

  Haitian essayist and speaker Monique Clesca urges President Emmanuel Macron to acknowledge the ‘injustice’ committed two centuries ago when the nation achieved independence and France imposed a heavy debt burden… more ›

• The EI Podcast: The Trial at 100: revisiting Kafka’s prophetic masterpiece

  May 1, 2026

  Listen: https://ift.tt/H4WdyTN This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial – a seminal work that continues to captivate and unsettle its readers. EI’s Alastair… more ›