#humanities

[prokopetz]

Standard sword and sorcery fantasy film periodically interrupted by cutaways to an in-universe historian from a notional period hundreds of years after the depicted events explaining the film's various historical inaccuracies. There's a recurring tangent about how the film's protagonist is a conflation of three different guys, all of them much weirder than the end product of that conflation.

[animentality]

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[macmanx]

"I believe that humanity is meant to thrive and flourish, and that doesn't happen without context. And the arts and the humanities? They are our vessel for context." - LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton

[discoursets]

[rainstormyday]

Me: "I like [topic]. [Topic] is my life's biggest passion. In fact, I am a [topic] major."

Them: "oh ew. I hate [topic] why would you ever subject yourself to that torture? I could never spend my life doing [topic]."

*the twilight zone narrator voice* this interaction you have just witnessed may seem inhumane and just cruel, nethertheless it is an interaction that math majors must experience every day of their apparently torturous lives.

[jstor]

This week, we’re joining the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in amplifying the message that we need more humanities and social sciences scholars.

At JSTOR, we work with librarians, educators, and researchers who rely on humanities and social sciences scholarship to support teaching and learning. Every day, we see how this scholarship connects people to the past and helps them engage more deeply with the world.

We’re participating in this campaign to highlight the ongoing importance of this research and to support the people who create and use it.

Learn how to participate.

Image: Frank Millet, A Cosey Corner, 1884. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.