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Indonesia’s visual history is rich, but most of it remains scattered, forgotten, or left unseen.
That’s why I built https://t.co/0zQ4iYkNDM, a living archive dedicated to preserving Indonesia’s visual memory, from revolutionary posters to propaganda ephemera, prints, & beyond. https://t.co/0xHAZZ3e3j
via (she/her)☃︎x.comHistory written by the victors offers glimpses of marginalized figures, for whom we need to “fabulate” stories to “strain against the limits of the archive” and “represent lives… through the process of narration.” Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
I had no idea how wild the story of human evolution was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich.
Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then basically wiping everyone else out.
From the tribe of 1k-10k modern humans... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.com
The CIA kept this book on ancient civilizations and pole shifts classified for 50 years.
“Civilizations of 20,000 years ago were more advanced than our wildest imagination … ”
Atlantis was real.
Ancient Americans launched great satellites into... See more
of imagination. It has succeeded beyond expectation in extracting and describing sequences from material processes: how walls collapse; how ditches fill with silt, how organic materials can be dated and used to describe environmental change, diet, disease and injury. But it cannot get to grips with empty space and time: the unknown months, weeks,
... See moreMax Adams • The First Kingdom
"Cats have been messing shit up since the dawn of time" is my favorite brand of archeology https://t.co/sqQDffq6ee