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Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes” Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist, humorist – was born #OTD, 15 Jan In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career: 1/7 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt #Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Ivor Cutler at 90
BBC

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Ivor Cutler at 90

A celebration of the 90th anniversary of poet, humourist and absurdist Ivor Cutler.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
“Funes the Memorious" and Other Cases of Extraordinary Memory In Jorge Luis Borges's story of barely 12 pages, the celebrated writer plays with the infinite in a context of vast labyrinths of memory and the consequences of having an unlimited capacity to remember. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/borges-memory-funes-the-memorious/ Books by Pliny, the Elder at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50041 #books #literature #neuroscience
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
· 2w ago
First women of philosophy Philosophy was once a woman’s world, ranging across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s time to reclaim that lost realm by Dag Herbjørnsrud https://aeon.co/essays/before-the-canon-the-non-european-women-who-founded-philosophy?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a39fa187e5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_09_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972 Books about or by women philosophers at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+philosophers #books #literature #philosophy #womeninart
Before the canon: the non-European women who founded philosophy | Aeon Essays
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Before the canon: the non-European women who founded philosophy | Aeon Essays

Philosophy was once a woman’s world, ranging across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s time to reclaim that lost realm

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TinDrum @oscarjiminy@aus.social
· 2w ago
Paulina Borsook 'The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism...It’s an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society … these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect' #siliconValley #culture #bookstodon #literature #cyberselfish https://www.wired.com/story/paulina-borsook-profile/
Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?
WIRED

Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?

A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.

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✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@social.vivaldi.net
· 2w ago
📚️ 🇸🇾 A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature "A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture." 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511996962 #AncientNearEast #Syria #Religion #Language #Linguistics #Literature #Culture #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
A Primer on Ugaritic
Cambridge Core

A Primer on Ugaritic

Cambridge Core - English Language and Linguistics: General Interest - A Primer on Ugaritic

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
· 2w ago
Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading Jeff Biggers on the Legacy of a Little-Known Writer on the 100th Anniversary of Her Prize https://lithub.com/remembering-grazia-deledda-the-sardinian-nobel-prize-winner-we-should-all-be-reading/ Books by Grazia Deledda at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33472 #books #literature #nobelprize
Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading
Literary Hub

Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading

“Cross the sea,” a young Grazia Deledda wrote in a poem to Americans in 1893, “and tell everyone that the island of Sardinia is still waiting to be discovered and known.” On…

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Literary Hub @lithub@robot.villas
· 2w ago
Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age https://lithub.com/elizabeth-alexander-on-finding-life-in-the-second-spring-of-middle-age/ #Literature #Essays #MiddleAge
Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age
Literary Hub

Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age

If I could have been a dancer, a real dancer, beyond those years at St. Mark’s, I probably would have done it. But my gifts were not that lavish, and my considerable drive was directed toward more …

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Literary Hub @lithub@robot.villas
· 2w ago
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week https://lithub.com/what-should-you-read-next-here-are-the-best-reviewed-books-of-the-week-13/ #Books #Reading #Literature
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Literary Hub

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Gloria Steinem’s An Unexpected Life, Naomi Alderman’s The Strangers, Chuck Klosterman’s Rock*, and Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Said the Dead all feature among the best reviewed bo…

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
· 2w ago
"The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me..." Lessons for the 21st century from a 200‑year‑old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley by Eileen Hunt https://theconversation.com/lessons-for-the-21st-century-from-a-200-year-old-book-by-frankenstein-author-mary-shelley-291926 The Last Man by Mary Shelley at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18247 #books #literature #postapocalypitic
Lessons for the 21st century from a 200-year-old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley
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Lessons for the 21st century from a 200-year-old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley

The catastrophic story is familiar, but the insight, and the ending, offer an opportunity, and perhaps motivation, for modern readers.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
· 2w ago
Boosted by @trending@homestead.social
Forgotten Mozart notebook reveals how a young woman learned to compose The notebook preserves something that composer-centred histories often miss: the musical work taking place around Mozart, in this case by a young woman. by Stacy Olive Jarvis https://theconversation.com/forgotten-mozart-notebook-reveals-how-a-young-woman-learned-to-compose-292028?utm_campaign=the-daily-39618&utm_content=the-daily-39618_uk%7C2%7C39618%7C2e2a394b&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_term=Forgotten+Mozart+notebook+reveals+how+a+young+woman+learned+to+compose Original article: https://www.bnf.fr/en/actualitesEN/discovery-unpublished-autograph-manuscript-mozart-bnf-music-department Books by Mozart at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1368 #books #literature #music
Forgotten Mozart notebook reveals how a young woman learned to compose
The Conversation

Forgotten Mozart notebook reveals how a young woman learned to compose

The notebook preserves something that composer-centred histories often miss: the musical work taking place around Mozart, in this case by a young woman.

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