Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), French aristocrat, diplomat, political philosopher and historian.

His portrait by Théodore Chassériau (1850).

#art #tocqueville

2024 Wrap-Up: Podcasts

Thanks to all of the #podcasts that invited me on this year!

My "Looking Back on Genre History" #ScienceFiction segment ran each month on #StarShipSofa.

I talked to #Potterversity about my book chapter "Dark Arts & Secret Histories: Investigating #DarkAcademia"; to #TrashCompactor & #NewBooksNetwork about my book #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away; & to #NewBooksNetwork about my book #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier.

I also talked #Tocqueville with the #VitalRemnants podcast & #MaryShelley twice with #TheMcConnellCenter podcast.

Links to all of these: https://www.amyhsturgis.com/?page_id=9

2024 Wrap-Up: Talks

Some of my talks from this year are available online.

* Why You Should Read #TheLastMan by #MaryShelley
Link: https://youtu.be/_k9pH0dNPVg

* Why You Should Read #Frankenstein by #MaryShelley
Link: https://youtu.be/19gOThR5dZw

* A Fortnight in the Wilderness with #Tocqueville
Link: https://youtu.be/OaT-17hgAFU

* “Missing Students & Their Fictional Afterlives: #TrueCrime, #CrimeFiction, & #DarkAcademia" (given at the Popular Culture Research Network’s “Guilty Pleasures: Examining #Crime in #PopularCulture” conference)
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q221yilebjot8zb6yn8a1/Missing-Students-and-Their-Fictional-Afterlives-presentation.mp4

#SFF #ScienceFiction #History #Literature #19thCentury #IntellectualHistory #Books

M.E. eine sehr gute Analyse der #wahlen in den #usa. Sehr demütig, neutral und gleichermaßen interessant. #Tocqueville scheint ein Mustread.
#sternstundephilosophie #srfkultur #philosophie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsceN0v1b2I

Un café littéraire sympa, vraiment. Plutôt éclectique, comme il se doit. De Alexis de #Tocqueville à Nancy #Hutson en passant par Denis #Infante, Jeanne #Benameur, Albert #Londres, Dan #OBrien ou bien encore Sorj #Chalandon. Le tout en étant très bien reçu par les patrons de l'Auberge du Chêne.

À bientôt pour la 5e édition

#CafeLitteraireMaureillas #CLM #Maureillas

Sunday afternoon background stream. "Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's #Democracy in #America"

"#Tocqueville, in particular, saw the creation of new forms of social power that presented threats to human #liberty. "

... it's been a while since my university time that I dealt with that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6bfEOnLF5A