Simon Torracinta
@simontorracinta
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lecturer @HarvardHistSci / @HAWorkers / contributing editor @BostonReview / history of human sciences / STS / political economy
Joined August 2016
RT @LGeismer: Very excited for this virtual event to launch our new book Mastery and Drift moderated by @simontorracinta and @BostonReview…
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RT @dygottlieb: Really looking forward to this. No better moment to excavate the history of feckless Dems, equivocating media, and the blin…
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For @BostonReview on February 20 I'll be moderating a virtual event with @BrentCebul, @LGeismer, @dygottlieb, Nicole Hemmer (@pastpunditry), and @dl_wiggins on their new volume MASTERY AND DRIFT: PROFESSIONAL-CLASS LIBERALS SINCE THE 1960s. Register here:
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RT @HZeavin: The latest issue of @Parapraxis_Mag is at our new distributor (!) & shipping out now. Some previews are online. No. 05 is gorg…
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RT @aasthauprety: "It is not an exaggeration to say that the ordering of desire was at the foundation of modern economics." come for the p…
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RT @dwallacewells: “It is after all a distinctly modern conceit that the real state of the unrepresentable totality we have named “the econ…
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it’s hard to think of many historians with a greater influence on my thinking — what a loss
RIP to my PhD advisor and friend Anson Rabinbach (1945-2025). Born in the Bronx to Jewish socialist revolutionaries, he taught at Princeton for over 20 years. He passed away in Rome days after speaking about his own mentor George Mosse’s contributions to the history of fascism.
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RT @rithika_ram: “The vibecession is only one symptom of the profound unease that pervades a tumultuous world marked by intense and sudden…
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you can read it here!
“Such a politics would take seriously the reality of our desires as they are, while holding onto a hope—and perhaps even a duty—for their collective transfiguration.” -@simontorracinta (Simon Torracinta)
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RT @YauWinston: Hi everyone! We at the Climate and Community Institute, are looking for graduate students interested in the intersection of…
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RT @rbatzell: My book has a cover! Strange to have more than a decade of thinking and many years of research distilled into a single image,…
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RT @FarOutMag: RIP Garth Hudson, The Band‘s last living member has died aged 87 🌹 "We called Garth “H.B.” among ourselves. This stood for…
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RT @zunguzungu: "If there is a utopian sensibility running through Lynch’s films, it is here – in this boyish, inchoate, but touchingly stu…
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"Only ascendant powers think the state is for governing. Leaders of empires in decline look across at Xi Jinping and wonder if he can be serious about infrastructure and censorship and party discipline and the size of the army. Wasn’t that yesterday?"
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RT @Parapraxis_Mag: Our forthcoming issue 05 on Economies will be arriving this month. Preorder your copy here. htt…
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RT @60Minutes: Across the now-decimated Gaza Strip, America’s mark is everywhere. In footage shot by CBS News in May, the ground is littere…
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