Simon Huxtable

@shux.bsky.social

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Historian of global media and socialism / Researcher on Connecting 3 Worlds project / Improviser / Pawn pusher

Excerpt from David Macey's biography of Foucault. The passage talks about Foucault's friendship with two French physicists. "The three quickly became a closely knit group, taking it in turns to cook for one another (with Foucault specialising in pasta dishes, about which he elaborated an entire culinary theory) and spending most of their free time together."
The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth. But Friedman is going to spend the next 470 pages turning the "flat world" into a metaphor for global interconnectedness. Furthermore, he is specifically going to use the word round to describe the old, geographically isolated, unconnected world.
Headline from UK gov't: "UK's nuclear expertise is showcased on BBC Countryfile"