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bookshelves:
ancient-history-and-classics,
anthology,
anthropology,
biology,
biopolitics-and-the-body,
books-i-own,
critical-studies,
culture,
death-and-dying,
disability-studies,
drugs-and-alcohol,
economics,
education,
epidemiology,
epistemology,
essays,
ethics-and-moral-philosophy,
futurism,
gender-and-sexuality,
geography,
history-of-ideas,
history-of-science-and-medicine,
ideology,
language-and-semiotics,
law-and-legal-history,
love-and-relationships,
metaphysics-and-ontology,
mythology-and-folklore,
nationalism-and-statehood,
phenomenology,
philosophy,
philosophy-of-mind,
politics,
psychology-and-psychiatry,
race-racism-and-eugenics,
religion-and-theology,
sociology,
suicide,
technology,
world-history,
currently-reading,
activism,
aesthetics,
art-history,
commemoration-and-public-history,
environmental-history,
european-history,
media-studies
Jake
is currently reading
bookshelves:
activism,
aesthetics,
american-history,
anthropology,
architecture,
art-history,
biography,
biopolitics-and-the-body,
commemoration-and-public-history,
criminology,
critical-studies,
culture,
drugs-and-alcohol,
economics,
education,
environmental-history,
ethics-and-moral-philosophy,
ethnography,
futurism,
gender-and-sexuality,
geography,
history-of-ideas,
ideology,
journalism,
labour-history,
language-and-semiotics,
law-and-legal-history,
love-and-relationships,
media-studies,
mythology-and-folklore,
nationalism-and-statehood,
politics,
post-colonial-studies,
propaganda,
psychology-and-psychiatry,
race-racism-and-eugenics,
religion-and-theology,
social-history,
sociology,
technology,
urban-history,
travel-and-tourism,
books-i-own,
currently-reading
Jake
is currently reading
bookshelves:
american-history,
anthropology,
art-history,
biography,
biopolitics-and-the-body,
commemoration-and-public-history,
critical-studies,
culture,
death-and-dying,
drugs-and-alcohol,
economics,
environmental-history,
epidemiology,
gender-and-sexuality,
geography,
history-of-ideas,
ideology,
journalism,
labour-history,
language-and-semiotics,
law-and-legal-history,
media-studies,
music,
mythology-and-folklore,
nationalism-and-statehood,
politics,
psychology-and-psychiatry,
race-racism-and-eugenics,
social-history,
sociology,
technology,
urban-history,
oral-history,
aesthetics,
criminology,
disability-studies,
education,
ethics-and-moral-philosophy,
fashion-and-clothing,
love-and-relationships,
books-i-own,
travel-and-tourism,
currently-reading,
activism,
ethnography,
food-and-drink,
religion-and-theology,
rural-history,
sport-and-recreation
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
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“We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.”
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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― Auguries of Innocence
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― Auguries of Innocence
Jake’s 2025 Year in Books
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