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Maxillian Issued Edicts in Nahuatl

Michael Ledger-Lomas · Finished Off by Chagrin: Monarchs and Emperors · LRB 21 July 2022.

The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World 
by Edward Shawcross.
Faber, 336 pp., £20, January, 978 0 571 36057 4

King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the 19th Century 
by Andrew Fitzmaurice.
Princeton, 592 pp., £35, February, 978 0 691 14869 4

The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire 
by Matthew Fitzpatrick.
Oxford, 416 pp., £90, February, 978 0 19 289703 9

 

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30.07.2023

I tend to be not unsympathetic to rather uninterested in
complaints migrants, voluntary or not, make about cultural and linguistic displacement, since I knew by the age of fifteen that I didn’t want to be the American I was raised to be. I wanted out, myself. I did have some vague idea of the consequences.

Neumatt is miniseries turning around the dilemmas faced by bourgedis enterpreneurs, in this case family dairy farmers. There’sots of milk, plus a gamut of registers of Swiss German, a gay triangle, among other romantic / sexual relationships. Everyone ishappy in the end. Even the cows.

On Gramsci, Jm Lariri

https://twitter.com/canadianinab/status/1553430219964305409?s=21

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On Human(ist[ic])Thought

Three popular poets.  Rilke, Neruda, Rumi.

Like water language flows downhill, seeking the easist path.

The Cartesian cogito ergo sum is itself part of consciousness hence unreliable, as any logician can tell you. Its either/or excluded middle proposition falls preys to Russell’s paradox, since it includes itself in what it ex- / in-cludes….

Law of excluded middle

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-russells-paradox/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zermelo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo_set_theory