Friday Varia and Quick Hits
After a bit of a summer holiday, I’m back with some varia and quick hits. As fall has sprung on the northern plains, it just feels like an appropriate time to get back to sharing the contents of my myriad open browser tabs.
It’s a hectic time of year with classes starting, new books, fall deadlines, temperate weather, and the overlap of fall and summer sports. Fortunately, I have enough on my plate to avoid worrying too much about what to watch, read, and do. That said, it is almost certain that I’ll watch the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday morning, the Dubois-Usyk heavy weight tilt on Saturday afternoon, and it’ll be hard to resist the Daytona night race. I’ll certainly pay attention to the Phillies continued efforts to lock down a wild card playoff spot against the scuffling Cards.
Of course, I also will have time to think about some quick hits and varia:
Pasts Imperfect has also returned this weekend. Check them out.
Challenging “counterestablishment” archaeology: What really matters.
Some free books:
Jonathan Gardner, A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events. 2022.
Z.B. Simon, The Fabric of Historical Time. 2023 (free until Aug. 28).
Special Issue of Early Medieval Europe: Mobility and migration in the early medieval Mediterranean.
Kyle Conway, How to Read Like You Mean It. 2023.
Jonathan Basile, Tar for Mortar: “The Library of Babel” and the Dream of Totality. 2018.
Some not free books:
Elizabeth Kryder-Reid and Sarah May, eds. Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice. 2023.
Nick Shepherd ed., Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times: Coloniality, Climate Change, and Covid-19. 2023.
Anthony Kaldellis, The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium. 2023.
Return to Bad River: Native Christian non-duality under North American feet.
What I’m reading: Michael D. Gordin, Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction. 2023.
What I’m listening to: jaimie branch, Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)).
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