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The Charnel-House
Personal blog · thecharnelhouse.orghistorydesignculture
The Charnel-House is a personal blog at thecharnelhouse.org about history, design and culture. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its pointers to critical theory texts such as The Society of the Spectacle and Dialectic of Enlightenment, and for a post on Bauhaus costume parties. Commenters use it as a source for these readings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
From Bauhaus to Beinhaus
What Hacker News says?
https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Raoul...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Raoul-Vaneigem-The-Revolution-of-Everyday-Life.pdf
on “Microsoft Japan’s 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity”Submitted Soviet-era erotic alphabet book from 1931 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionCapitalism edit: before the downvote storm, have a look at https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Raoul... and https://libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacl... it's doing a very good job at explaining the shift we went through after WWII, when everyone was promising 5 hours workdays and retirement at 45.
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Raoul-Vaneigem-The-Revolution-of-Everyday-Life.pdf
on “Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a toll on society”Submitted About Two Squares: El Lissitzky’s 1922 suprematist picture book for kids as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI would also add that 'The Dialectic of Enlightenment', is perhaps a more thorough precedent to 'The Society of the Spectacle'... if you're at all interested ... the chapter 'The Culture Industry' is good. https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Max-H...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Max-Horkheimer-and-Theodor-Adorno-Dialectic-of-Enlightenment-Philosophical-Fragments-1944-1947.pdf
on “The Society of the Spectacle”Submitted Margaret Bourke-White in the USSR, 1931 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you're going to call yourself Bauhaus and have costume parties, do it right: https://thecharnelhouse.org/2013/06/02/oskar-schlemmers-bauh...
Comment linking /2013/06/02/oskar-schlemmers-bauhaus-costume-parties-1924-1926/
on “Building the Bauhaus, a purposefully non-ideological coliving house”
