Nostr notes by Daniel Bellingradt

Der wissenschaftliche "Nachwuchs" bei #Germanistentag und ...

2025-09-16T12:44:24Z

Der wissenschaftliche "Nachwuchs" bei #Germanistentag und #Historikertag bereitet sich auf die Pausengespräche vor.

I just read a clearly AI-fueled or AI-written book in my academic ...

2025-07-31T11:12:41Z

I just read a clearly AI-fueled or AI-written book in my academic niche, and while I stumble to finish it, I predict that future historiography will have literature categories and markers like *published post 2024* or *published ante 2024*. Our days will be seen as the barrier between these worlds.

I am not the first to predict this, of course, but we have to reflect on this more often and more loudly, and teach AI awareness as part of a studium generale. #AI #academia #academicchatter

A printed ❤️ symbol from a 1702 text about the Holy Trinity. ...

2025-06-27T14:21:29Z

A printed ❤️ symbol from a 1702 text about the Holy Trinity. That's an #earlymodern #emoticon <3

#histodons #typography

Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they ...

2025-04-29T09:32:34Z

Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. The giant page of Gutenberg fame can now be seen for a while in the Mainz Cathedral.

#histodons #Gutenberg #bookhistory #bookstodon

#protip for academics: try singing your own new texts before ...

2025-03-19T15:16:29Z

#protip for academics: try singing your own new texts before publishing. If you cannot sing it, don’t publish it. Thank me later.

#AcademicChatter

The Youth turned away from social media and started posting on ...

2025-02-18T09:05:12Z

The Youth turned away from social media and started posting on bulletin boards again. Nature is healing.

Coffee, anyone? The year is 1761 and this boy is carefully ...

2025-01-09T07:43:35Z

Coffee, anyone?

The year is 1761 and this boy is carefully serving coffee to the workers in an #earlymodern print shop.

Serving #coffee surely helped running a print shop, as this image shows, dear #histodons. We may have to add 'serving coffee' to the relevant printing-house practices Donald F. McKenzie wrote about, my fellow #bookhistory experts.

Coffee-fueled proofreading, printing, typesetting it was.

Symbolic image "Human Social Media Manager & Content ...

2025-01-08T07:50:47Z

Symbolic image "Human Social Media Manager & Content Creator with a Hat, being in the process of creating posts for different social media channels while looking perplexed at responses, comments and messages from other bots and humans online".

#earlymodern #socialmedia

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Rare book ...

2024-12-22T08:58:34Z

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Rare book cataloguer: [1] i, from 1-9 (8), took a break at [2] I-III8, IV10, then was Cited In and had to Bound-with 2°: πA⁶(πA1+1, πA5+1.2), A-2B6, 2C2, x4, “gg3.4″(±”gg3″), ¶-2¶6, 3¶1, 2a- 2f6, 2g2, “Gg6“, 2h6, 2k-3b7. But eventually, [n.d.]

#bookhistory

Were book shops of Europe's past really full of books? Well, ...

2024-11-04T14:28:11Z

Were book shops of Europe's past really full of books? Well, here is an #earlymodern bookseller from #Dresden, Germany, in front of his boxes. Yes, boxes, not books.

In these boxes unfolded printed sheets (of a certain publication) were stored. This is what you would have seen, next to small amounts of bound books and small publications, in a typical early modern book shop. So #bookhistory is sometimes a history of boxes too.

#histodons #bookstodon #books #bookshop

As a member of the International Advisory Board of LUCK, ...

2024-10-21T09:35:34Z

As a member of the International Advisory Board of LUCK, Lund's Centre for the History of Knowledge, I recommend applying for this postdoctoral fellowship:

https://newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/10/17/cfa-visiting-fellowship-programme-in-the-history-of-knowledge/

Spend a week in Lund, foster new networks, discuss and enjoy. #histodons #bookhistory #MediaHistory #histknow

Being a historian, this is how I read your posts and threads. ...

2024-10-08T07:17:32Z

Being a historian, this is how I read your posts and threads. #histodons

It looks like another text is trying to invade. Well, that's ...

2024-10-02T06:03:06Z

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It looks like another text is trying to invade.

Well, that's just another weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person. Automatic repair systems corrupt digital heritage. #bookhistory
#digitalhistory #histodons #digitization

Fancy a new removable shoe insert that enables you to literally ...

2024-10-01T13:25:12Z

Fancy a new removable shoe insert that enables you to literally ‘drive through the air’. Well, these #earlymodern inscribed inlays of magical seven-league boots may help:

More in our book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-59525-2 , plus the open access appendix with all magical manuscripts: t1p.de/glndo

#histodons #magic #manuscripts #bookhistory #history

The Verwurstung of books. In 1974, the artist Dieter Roth ...

2024-09-26T07:47:35Z

The Verwurstung of books.

In 1974, the artist Dieter Roth experimented with the materiality of books - and made, among other "literature sausages", Hegel's complete work to 20 sausages using traditional sausage recipes, replacing the sausage's meat with book paper.

#histodons #bookhistory #bookstodon

Panther?

2024-09-19T12:48:30Z

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Panther?

Again: the inserted sample clearly does not fit in here. Another ...

2024-09-18T11:44:30Z

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Again: the inserted sample clearly does not fit in here.

Another weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person. Automatic repair systems corrupt digital heritage. #bookhistory
#digitalhistory #histodons

That's a page turner! Imagine a book about a whale, and you ...

2024-08-08T11:52:28Z

That's a page turner! Imagine a book about a whale, and you see on the title page the gleamed through backside of the very whale swimming.

#bookhistory #earlymodern #whale #history #histodons

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You have to enjoy these remarks in seventeenth century German ...

2024-08-07T11:53:51Z

You have to enjoy these remarks in seventeenth century German books where the printer has it own preface to the reader ("Buchtrucker an den Leser"): If you do not like the book, write a letter to the dead author, and wait for a reply!

This means politely: F*ck off

#earlymodern #bookhistory #history #histodons

And another weird space created by a finger image removal ...

2024-07-25T10:30:06Z

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And another weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person. The inserted sample clearly does not fit in here (or anywhere else in this print, to be honest).

That's a kind of data corruption, if you ask me. Automatic repair systems do corrupt our digital heritage.

#bookhistory #digitalhistory #histodons #history #digitization

There is another dog in the library. Caught in the act in 1710 in ...

2024-07-08T13:40:16Z

There is another dog in the library.
Caught in the act in 1710 in Leipzig.

#animalhistory #histodons #bookhistory #history #dogsofmastodon #bookstodon

Werte Biblio-Bubble: Ich suche "versteckte" ...

2024-07-05T14:22:35Z

Werte Biblio-Bubble: Ich suche "versteckte" Periodika-Bestände bis 1800 aus Archiven und Bibliotheken: #Zeitungen, #Messrelationen, #Kalender, #Zeitungsextrakte usw. - alle Exemplare, gedruckt im deutschen Sprachraum, mit regelmäßiger Absicht.

Wo sind noch nicht katalogisierte oder digitalisierte Bestände von periodischen Drucken vor 1800?

Jeder Tipp hilft, es dient den VD-Projekten. Bitte weitersagen, und mich kontaktieren. Vielen Dank

#bookhistory #newshistory #histodons #Bibliothek

Proudly screaming into the city (of Blomberg) since 1530: the ...

2024-06-11T12:56:28Z

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Proudly screaming into the city (of Blomberg) since 1530: the Niedere Tor. One of many #ScreamingCityGates . Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Still screaming after all these years (and centuries): the ...

2024-06-11T12:28:03Z

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Still screaming after all these years (and centuries): the Westerntorturm in Salzkotten. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Screaming horrified with sensitive eyes in ...

2024-06-11T11:37:48Z

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Screaming horrified with sensitive eyes in Brilon: the Derkertor. #ScreamingCityGates

The Heisterbacher Tor in Bad Münstereifel joins other ...

2024-06-11T11:25:47Z

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The Heisterbacher Tor in Bad Münstereifel joins other #ScreamingCityGates in screaming horrified all day long. Aaaaaaaaaaaaa

Screaming horrified in Cologne: the Hahnentor. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ...

2024-06-11T10:44:55Z

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Screaming horrified in Cologne: the Hahnentor. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates

Hard to unsee: two city gates screaming in horror. ...

2024-06-11T10:37:01Z

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Hard to unsee: two city gates screaming in horror. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates

This is a slow moving thread of screaming and horrified city ...

2024-06-11T10:25:02Z

This is a slow moving thread of screaming and horrified city gates. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

#ScreamingCityGates #history #histodons

That's how most of #earlymodern printed books were offered ...

2024-06-03T08:02:39Z

That's how most of #earlymodern printed books were offered and consumed: unbound, likely not stab-stitched, usually just slightly folded.

Say hello to the world of quartos and octavos, small prints, cheap prints, #Flugpublizistik, street literature, etc. Forget about bound books and libraries - this was the most typical way of reading the printed words and images in Europe.

#histodons #bookhistory #historyofreading #history #earlymodernEurope #EarlyModernHistory

Es hat sich einiges getan in unserem Storytelling-Projekt, das ...

2024-05-04T08:00:50Z

Es hat sich einiges getan in unserem Storytelling-Projekt, das einst "Hidden Cities" hieß - und nun "HistoryCity Apps" heisst. Es folgt eine Übersicht der Apps, Begleitbücher, Webseiten, Comics, etc.

Geschichte vermitteln und erleben: Historisches Storytelling!

Ein Thread.

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#histodons #Geschichtswissenschaft #FediLZ #DigitaleBildung #DigitalPublicHistory #PublicHistory #FrüheNeuzeit #EarlyModernHistory

This is just a reminder that, in 1631, Robert Barker in London ...

2024-04-18T16:27:39Z

This is just a reminder that, in 1631, Robert Barker in London misprinted a famous line of the Holy Bible, namely „Thou shalt commit adultery“.

The forbidden copies with the famous slip sold well, and a few survived in our catalogues. The edition was called the Wicked Bible afterwards. #bookhistory #histodons #history #bible

And here the ghost aka cloud is slowly taking over the page. ...

2024-04-11T10:36:29Z

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And here the ghost aka cloud is slowly taking over the page.

Welcome to yet another example of how automatic repair systems - to be precise: finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person - do crush our digital heritage.

#digitalhistory #histodons #bookhistory #digitization

Is it a ghost? Is it a cloud? No, it is just a weird space ...

2024-03-18T14:08:01Z

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Is it a ghost? Is it a cloud? No, it is just a weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person.

Welcome to another striking example of how automatic repair systems do crush our digital heritage. #bookhistory
#digitalhistory #histodons #history #digitization

A loud shout out to the finger image removal technologies. You ...

2024-02-23T13:23:01Z

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A loud shout out to the finger image removal technologies. You all contribute to making #bookhistory with access to the originals worth while.

And this happens when fingers that were used to hold down a ...

2024-02-23T13:07:00Z

And this happens when fingers that were used to hold down a book's page to be scanned were captured, and a software "repairs" this space automatically afterwards. In short: the scanned image is corrected by filling the problematic space with new content. In this case, this filling didn't fit too well: you see a "en=" text part from a different print, and some very bad pixel space. Welcome to the complex digital narrative of old printed books.

#bookhistory #digitalhistory #history #histodons