Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s cold and unseasonably damp here in North Dakotaland, but winter food, groovy tunes, and a good book or two make it more tolerable (and verging on pleasant at times).

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If your weather is as ordinary as ours, may this little gaggle of quick hits and varia make it better. If it’s nicer, then enjoy the mild early winter!

• The New Yorker on polychromy.  

• Mycenaean tomb.

• Himmler’s antiquities from the LARB.

• Mortal Republic.

• Can We Leave it All Behind?

• Fake Scrolls.

• Archaeology of plenitude.

• Open Access at the Art Institute of Chicago.

• The so-called Sokal Squared hoax.

• Can science fiction save the world?

• Letter to America.

• After neoliberalism. 

• Open access monographs.

• What I’m reading: Charlie Hailey and Donovan Wylie, Slab City: Dispatches from the Last Free Place. MIT 2018.

• What I’m listening to: Makaya McCraven, Universal Beings.