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The Methodology of Feyerabend’s ‘Against Method’
by Bipasha Bhattacharyya, @Bipasha05235299 “Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise”[i] begins Feyerabend’s controversial book; And with it, the author becomes “science’s worst enemy.”[ii] This epithet is not all that surprising for the ‘serious academic’. After all, anarchy means Guy Fawkes’s masks, and burning effigies, cheers of Inquilab Zindabad on the streets of West Bengal…
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Navigating Beyond the Naga Conflict: A Clash of Systems
by Vinolen John, @vinolenjohn Studies concerning histories of conflicts are always a thin line to tread. This is particularly true with regards to Naga History which revolves around facets of decolonisation, nation and identity construction, insurgency and conflict, inter alia. The Nagas are a group of disparate tribes in the highlands of India’s northeast and…
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Doing Baltic History through Geopolitics Summer Schools
by Elvira Tamus The Baltic Sea region was an important trading partner for England, Scotland, and then the United Kingdom in the early modern period. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it supplied naval stores to the Royal Navy. Britain fought for the independence of the Baltic states against the Bolsheviks and the Nazis, and have…
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Searching for Authenticity: Parallels between Early Modern England and the Age of AI
By Zoë Jackson (Twitter: @ZoeMJackson1, Bluesky: @zoejackson.bsky.social) If you teach, or work in a public-facing role, or indeed have any online or social media presence at all, you will probably be aware of a chatbot called ChatGPT. Since its launch by OpenAI in late 2022, individuals and companies have found a range of uses for the tool.…
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Ending Fascism, Dreaming Socialism: The Portuguese Revolution
João Moreira da Silva @moreiradasilvaj Fifty years ago, the future was now in Portugal. Crowds stormed the streets of Lisbon to follow the fall of a fascist dictatorship at the hands of insurgent militaries; radios, televisions, and public buildings were seized; the premier surrendered; the war in the African colonies, such as Angola and Mozambique,…
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