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Embodiment and the (Re)invention of Emoji, from the Aztecs to Humboldt and Darwin to AI

The Marginalian 06 May 2026 19h ago
Embodiment and the (Re)invention of Emoji, from the Aztecs to Humboldt and Darwin to AI
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By the time he published Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique, Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769–May 6, 1859), barely in his forties, was the world’s most eminent and polymathic naturalist (the word scientist was yet to be coined). Napoleon hated him for his impassioned anticolonial and abolitionist views. Goethe cherished him as his greatest thinking part
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