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Science, Magic, and the Atom in Tomorrowland
Genealogies of Modernity
May 21, 2020
“Anthropomorphizing the atom transfers moral responsibility for atomic energy from the American nuclear state to a seemingly sentient infinitesimal particle.”
Image: Ed Westcott. Atoms for Peace Traveling Exhibit in Oak Ridge. 1957. 57-1239 DOE. Wikimedia Commons.
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Ten Thousand Angels and Comic-Book Theodicy
Genealogies of Modernity
June 9, 2020
“Benevolent beings of extraordinary power seem to do little more than maintain an unsatisfactory status quo.”
Image: Stefan Lochner. Last Judgement. c. 1425. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne. Wikimedia Commons.
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Haunted Modernity
Genealogies of Modernity
April 17, 2020
“One pedagogical strategy is to play with scientific metaphors such as Bacon’s ship, offering our own subversive reading.”
Image: Title page of Novum organum scientiarum, 1645. Printed at Leiden shop of Wyngaerden and Moiardum. EC.B1328.620ib, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Wikimedia Commons.
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What Do Film Archivists Do All Day?
Moving Image Research Collections Blog
March 21, 2016
Image: William Shatner dressed as Captain Kirk in Columbia (SC) Christmas Parade. 1968. Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina.
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Whiskey and Watermelons
A Capitol Blog
October 31, 2013
Image: Abbie Rowe. Sen. Olin Johnston of South Carolina presenting President Truman with a turkey from Wilton E. Hall of Anderson, South Carolina, as Colonel Lewis Jackson looks on. 25 September 1946. NARA 199536. National Archives and Records Administration.
