Comment on compose un texte suivant des courbes, au plomb... C'est un peu plus sportif qu'avec les tracés sous Indesign ou Illustrator ! (par François de Ros, maître d'art typographe, dans le livre Généalogies, aux éditions Anakatabase)

« Au fond, voyez-vous, me dit le maître en me serrant la main, le monde est fait pour ajouter du contenu à sa story ». (Mallarmé, interview par Mark Zuckerberg)

Maire Ubu. — Eh bien, Parisiens, vous êtes-vous bien baignés ? Les Parisiens — Fort bien, Madame, sauf la merdre. Maire Ubu. — Eh ! la merdre n’était pas mauvaise.

📷 Keiichiro Goto, Monument, 1948

"Protect your eyes" Soviet work safety poster, 1987.

I just finished M. Singh's "Shamanism" and at the very end he notes this incredible anti-intellectual nonsense from our post-modern colleagues.

The grave of George Lewis, Church of Our Lady, Warnford. George was busy working on the local estate on Sunday, instead of attending church. The branch he was cutting fell, killing him The skeleton on the grave points at the branch, reminding us to observe the Sabbath 🙏🙅🏻‍♂️🪚

Woman with Cat, 18th Century, Qajar Iran 🇮🇷

I have done a general, open access piece on the common misconceptions about the fighting in al-Suwayda'. Too many crude, inaccurate talking points are being circulated among analysts and observers and contributing to the tensions. This needs to stop now aymennaltamimi.com/p/misconceptio…

'Beach of Biarritz.' Following the success of Sorolla's exhibition in Paris in 1906, he retreated to Biarritz. It was a hub of social activity for people like the Kaiser and the Prince of Wales; the Spanish Royal family and their court spent the summer in nearby San Sebastian.

Copie, à la plume, du rouleau des « 120 journées de sodome », à l’occasion d’un film consacré aux rêves de Sade embastillé.

Traduzione di Claudia Di Palermo, Francesco Panzeri e Davide Trovò: adelphi.it/libro/97888459…

Garden of Earthly Delights

It's World Brain Day! We've all got one. Here's a fine example featured in Kaishi Hen, a 1772 anatomical atlas from the dawn of experimental medicine in Japan. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/kai…

Oakeshott and Pocock about the historian's relationship with history. From lawliberty.org/pococks-conser…

Chang Yuchen, Coral Dictionary Inspired by the shapes of coral on a small Malaysian island and by a Chinese-Malay-English dictionary, the artist crafts a unique Malay script out of coral debris.

Certains parents : « Je refuse de mentir à mon enfant en lui faisant croire que le Père Noël et la petite souris existent ! » Le père de George Steiner :

"Abbandonarsi ai propri pensieri per un’ora, ogni giorno, senza scopo: basta questo per rimanere qualcosa che somigli a un uomo." Ricordando Elias Canetti, nato il #25luglio 1905.

Wrote for UnHerd about signs of collapse in gender ideology, and how some philosophers are attempting to hold back the tide. unherd.com/2025/07/is-thi…

Illustrated supplement to the New-York Tribune with photographs by Dmitry Yermakov taken in the public baths of Tiflis. December 17, 1905.