Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Writer, contemporary art critic, aspiring Byzantine scholar. Born in Bogota and living on an island in Istanbul.

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

@kataplexis Hannah Arendt made the argument that it wasn’t the Nazis who invented the German language, and very valid point of argument but point is the case had to be made coz the context was never neutral.

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

@kataplexis I’m afraid that’s a difficult argument to sustain... Greek without its context and history is well, just a combination of syntactic operations. I agree the civilization shtick is really obtuse but to divorce language and context is maybe not very productive.

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

@TomWallerberger I’m in Istanbul :)
No end to evil

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There’s all kinds of stupid things I’ve learnt to live with and resigned to our cruel fate, but loud football fans in public transportation isn’t one of them. I hope they freeze in the cold 🥶

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

@Streitapfel They are indeed.

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

Not sure how a plastic hard hat can help you in the case of an explosion... But Avi loves making stuff up to make up little points of pseudo-propaganda.

[Avi Mayer אבי מאיר @AviMayer]

I spent last Friday night in an Istanbul synagogue that had a yellow hard hat under each seat for fear of a car bomb.

Tonight I’m grateful to live in a place where I can celebrate my Jewish identity openly and freely.

Shabbat Shalom from Israel. שבת שלום. 🇮🇱

[Bir Türk Yahudisi @TurkiyeYahudisi]

Yellow hardhats are incase of an earthquake..

2 Metal blast proof doors are incase of an explosion.

There has been a carbombing at 15.11.2003

You have combined all that info and declared something else

So now you know the truth.. please share that with your followers as wel

[#TheBBWeekender @IamTobiOredein]

The bar is too low for white men.

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

@sunnysingh_n6 Also, the one only thing more dangerous than a powerful empire, is a powerless ego-wounded little nation.

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

@sauterne @rogueclassicist @manuelpm And is there NO ONE in your entire institution with basic Latin reading and undergraduate paleography training level?

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

I've just seen some folks on FB defending the anti-vaccine movement... And then last night, some other people comparing AOC and the white dress ladies to the KKK... Can we leave the Internet now? Where's the exit?

[Lynda Albertson @sauterne]

Want to decipher the opacity and malfeasance associated with the world’s fiercest market? ARCA's PG Cert Program delves into the study of legal and illegal financial flows associated with the buying and selling of art. https://t.co/R41dn35ovn

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

I guess there're not many translations into English of Guðbergur Bergsson, are there? I must also have some books of Laxness also lying around in some box unopened for a number of years in the mainland flat. Where could that be...?

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@Kattullus Everything is moving here https://t.co/0Vuky98f2Y but the process is painful... I'm sure they'll deliver best possible website (at least from a tech view) but I'm also sure gonna happen overnight. Most difficult thing with Modern Greek poets is access to the actual Greek texts.

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

And, well, the Onassis Foundation took over the Cavafy Archives (after they bought it in 2012) which is meant to be great, and probably it is, but why they destroyed the website with the entire Cavafy poetry in English and Greek... I know not. It happened like last week.

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

@Kattullus That is weird, coz the site wouldn't access last night... It would direct you to the Onassis new site of the archive, and on this one you can no longer access the Greek text.

[Lynda Albertson @sauterne]

@conflictantiq and Holy Mary mother of god, another one, purportedly an Ancient Syriac gilded Bible seized in, wait for it......... Turkey....on October 31, 2015.

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

*Rolls eyes* *Buys fake chateau for the price of a hotel room in Munich*

[Hürriyet Daily News @HDNER]

‘My Home Turkey’ real estate fair opens in Germany https://t.co/8ZG6SFO5ci

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Not even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes in socialism this much

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

There's no end to surprises with Turkish trends 🙄 #AstronotNeYapıyor

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@apk222 Former Uruguayan president (who was a leftist militant) on Venezuela crisis: If there's no choice but US intervention, the central issue is not whether the US or not but how to avoid a long war.

[Arie Amaya-Akkermans @Dilmunite]

BBC News Mundo - Mujica sobre la crisis en Venezuela: "Si EE.UU. no tiene más remedio que intervenir, va a intervenir; el tema central es evitar la guerra" https://t.co/2x7ca2QTjd