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Book talk with Dr Hugh Thomas - on your book "Power and Pleasure" (OUP 2021)
Dear Hugh,
Greetings! I enjoyed your book talk re 'Dr Hugh Thomas on your book "Power and Pleasure" ' OUP 2021, which I found and watched on Youtube on Thanksgiving yesterday.
How are you doing? I thought too to call you to say hi on Thanksgiving, but may do so over the next few days instead.
Appreciating the sources' approaches you shared, and the ' social theory' and historiographical approaches to this ancient subject:
Book Talk with Dr. Hugh Thomas: Power and Pleasure, Court Life Under King John, 1199-1216
I added these references to the History wiki school at MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/History to these sections (and updated the Navigation a bit too, and by hand ... did I get these citations correct, more or less, for now?)
Select Books - Thomas, Hugh M. 2021. Power and Pleasure Court Life under King John, 1199-1216. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press.
Select Video and Audio -
Thomas, Hugh M. 2021. [https://youtu.be/4APZI54_lHsBook Talk with Dr. Hugh Thomas: Power and Pleasure, Court Life Under King John, 1199-1216]. Miami, FL: University of Miami Humanities.
I can't see from your talk how a realistic virtual earth for history (thinking Google Street View with a time slider) would be a helpful research tool, but perhaps your book itself would offer new avenues and resources, like images to build this from.
I looked up your "Power and Pleasure" in World Catalog (https://search.worldcat.org/ - in which library locations for my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" can be found for physical copies) to see where I might find your book in Pittsburgh, and it looks like it's available at Carlow College and Robert Morris College and Westminster College.
I thought to ask some questions during the talk about the way the Magna Carta fits further into your King John narratives (and possibly about Edward I too ... but may wait until we speak or see each other).
All the best, thanks, talk with you soon potentially,
Thanks, #DrHughMThomas Appreciating the sources, #SocialTheory & historiographical approaches in "Book Talk with Dr. Hugh Thomas: 'Power and Pleasure', Court Life Under King John, 1199-1216" https://youtu.be/4APZI54_lHs Added > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/History!
Thanks, #DrHughMThomas Appreciating the sources, #SocialTheory & historiographical approaches in "Book Talk with Dr. Hugh Thomas: 'Power and Pleasure', Court Life Under King John, 1199-1216" https://t.co/l7fxvwH1np Added > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/History!
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Great talk, Professor Hugh Thomas! Thanks so much for sharing it. Best wishes, Scott GK MacLeod (will add it as a resource to the MIT OCW-centric wiki History subject or school - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/History)!
Thanks, Hugh ... looking forward to talking, and Happy Thanksgiving ! -
As I think further about your presentation, and particularly a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory, there do seem to be some opportunities to explore this with a kind of Humanities' oriented Google Street View with a time slider, history-wiki-virtual-world-graphy approach ... How to research the following -
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research the 13 miles a day claim for the movement of the court of king john for example ... with ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory (think Google Street View with time slider, #TextInTheSidebar #Google Maps with Google Translate (of medieval English, medieval French, Medieval Latin etc)... simply by dragging and dropping the text from the scholar who makes these claims into #GDocs' #TextInTheSidebar of Google Street View with time slider - 1199-1216 ... Not set up yet IT-wise to do this in a moment ... but stay tuned ...
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social theories '(not Marxist, not Foucauldian, but as trenchant) critiques of the medieval monarchy and court of King John, for example?) came to mind early this morning too ...
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And I may be able to address these questions from a Castellian perspective, and regarding creating an emerging realistic virtual earth for history in 1 realistic virtual earth ... in my upcoming 6th book "Society, Information Technology and the Global University"
Some further thinking, and appreciation for your book talk -
I appreciate, too, the moral and ethical sensibilities that emerge from you in your presentation ... but wonder about the implications of history very broadly in recapitulating and interpreting criminal behavior for example ...
But I also appreciate what could even an "ideological" 'move' to return in your presentation to the 'magna carta' as a seminal text of 'law" ... and regarding even addressing questions of slavery, and possibly 'race, class, gender" contemporary social science foci ... and re even the words' "king john" and ideological implications of his possibly 'atrocity reign' ... as model tragically ... Oxford University Press out-of-America thinking-wise too ...
Brainstorming-wise, have you done or seen any highest quality analyses, for example, of the folk rock music of Steeleye Span ballads et al., (e.g. Pentangle too - both from the late 1960s and early 1970s) as a kind of history?
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 9:59 AM Thomas, Hugh M <h.thomas@miami.edu> wrote:
My apologies, Scott, for being slow to respond to your emails on my book talk—it’s been a hectic semester so I took a break from responding to emails over the holiday weekend. And thanks very much for listening to the book talk! In terms of your big questions, I have to admit to a fair amount of hesitation about fitting my work into the big theoretical frameworks of Marx and Foucault, for all of their importance in thinking about power. To the extent I fit into theoretical frameworks, I probably depended more on Pierre Bourdieu’s thinking about cultural capital. I’m afraid I’m not familiar enough with Castells’ organizational theory to discuss that intelligently, but in that arena I have been influenced a little by actor network theory. In terms of digital humanities, there is an old website out there that traces John’s itinerary, although unfortunately they clearly ran out of money. There are certainly lots of possibilities with GIS for all this, but I’m afraid I lack the computational expertise to take advantage of them.
Best,
Hugh
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Happy Thanksgiving! I've been working flat out and then got in the car and I'm in North Carolina with cousins on my mother's side 60s and sunny very nice. Enjoy your holiday.
Scott -
Hi David! Sounds like a great trip to your cousins, mother's side of your family, in North Carolina! Happy Thanksgiving ! 2 hours northeast of Pittsburgh around the Marienville Ranger station, near where a regional Rainbow Gathering may have occurred in 2021, for a hike was an exploration, but no Rainbow people - Heading west to a newly safe open 670 Ridgecrest Rd Canyon 94516 in the new year has much appeal - and thanks to Ed Smyth MD's precipitation in March 2022 fwd! I'm glad/hope the climate scientists and lawyers are getting global climate change modeling and planning right - found gas in Ford City Pennsylvania (could there be some PA oil derricks very close by even), for $1.95/gallon for 88 octane gas (down from $2.96 /gallon last time I filled up at the Scheetz's gas station where 87 octane costs around $3.49 there these days) ... Hoping if flying cars are developed that we can add a sail or hang gliding aspect to gas or solar etc propelled motors. ... Happy Thanksgiving with your family! I hope to get my mother at the PIT airport tomorrow at 7 coming back from visiting Sandy in Portland ME And to go out for a Thanksgiving dinner at 'Burgh Thai restaurant near her place (if you'd like to join virtually, see at bottom . . . http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/bell-bean-mz-national-flower-of.html ... but probably not in a conference call:) - and with friends. Enjoy your holiday! Scott (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20climate%20change - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/solar -http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/sailing )
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I've added these recently to my Google schedule, and they're helpful prompts -
8am
Yoga explorations - Angela & Victor inspired?
9am
Write Society Info Tech & the Global Univ
10am
play bagpipes
11am
Play/learn Blues' piano
12 noon
Read fascinating and thinking generating books
1pm
Improve German speaking with Google Bard AI
2pm
WUaS Home Robotics with learning to teach Scratch programming - Make a Gorilla Robot again with Lego Robotics' kit We Do 2.0
Scott's an anthropologist of physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs, as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal and extreme longevity, philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of information technology & counterculture :) -
scottmacleod.com ... Am also the president or head of, and professor at, MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch (& Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,164 living languages with machine translation, aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can wiki-teach, or wiki-learn, or wiki-create - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (see too: http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html in exploring questions of Yoga & wisdom). Identity-wise, a Nontheist Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and an academic
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