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Joseph Howley
@illdottore.bsky.social
I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool
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Naomi Klein on the Oct 7 Trauma Transference Industrial Complex is an important read www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war
A year later, memorials to the 7 October attacks use art, virtual reality and dark tourism to stir support for limitless violence. But there is a different way to remember
This made me think of disturbing experiences I’ve heard from friends who attended a certain kind of American Jewish summer camp that I always felt a little embarrassed, but now feel relieved, never to have attended.
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Joseph Howley
@illdottore.bsky.social
I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool
1.8k followers493 following1.2k posts