Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was born in 1842 and breathed his last in 1921. Kropotkin was a Russian noble. He was educated for army and at the age of twenty he became a military officer in Siberia.
Kropotkin’s great interest in science developed from his military training which he received to get a job. This moulded his life in future. He had a scientific mind and devoted his time and energy to the study of books on science.
As a military officer in Siberia Kropotkin got ample opportunity for geographical survey and expedition. Thus his shift from military service to geographical survey and expeditions enriched the subject profoundly. He contributed many articles to different journals.
Peter Kropotkin was a man of different mentality and attitude. His stay in military service could not satisfy his academic and intellectual requirements and desires and after serving several years he relinquished the job, and entered the University of St. Petersburg in 1867. His vast knowledge in geography brought for him the post of secretary of Geographical Society.
Even this vital administrative post could not detain him for long time. He moved to radical political movements. In 1872, Peter Kropotkin joined the International Workingmen’s Association. Later on he was deeply involved in subversive and anarchical activities. This led him to imprisonment in 1874.
He escaped from prison in 1876 and went to England. The England of the second half of eighteenth century was the centre of revolutionary activities, although she never experienced any revolution.
He also travelled to Switzerland and Paris. While in Paris he was again arrested by the French government in 1883. Released from prison in 1886 he went to England and settled there. While in exile, Kropotkin gave lectures and published widely on anarchism and geography. He returned to Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917 but was disappointed by the Bolshevik state. The rest of his life was spent without political activity.
Peter Kropotkin was an evolutionist anarchist. But his evolutionism was more scientific than that of his predecessors. He wrote several books on anarchism such as ‘The Place of Anarchy in Socialist Evolution (1886), The Conquest of Bread (1888), Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)’, ‘The State – Its Part in History (1898)’ and ‘Modern Science and Anarchism (1903)’. His deep interest in science, particularly biology and anthropology, opened before him new and enchanting vistas of knowledge and all these inspired him to study biological science with added interest.
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Syndicalism and Anarchism :ancom:
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Reading old smartphone reviews. A 4.5" screen is "gigantic" and using the 5.3" Galaxy Note makes you look "like a tool".
Those sizes aren't 1:1 comparable with current phone sizes because of bezel size though. Like, this is a physical height comparison of Note 1 (2011) Note 9 (2018) and S 24 Ultra (2024)
The size of the phone changes less than the size of the screen.
The other way they’ve found extra screen real estate is by making the aspect ratio wider for phones, like I think all of them may be the same width, but eventually the phones got longer and screen extended into the vertical part of the bezel.
Side bezels were already tiny even by the time of the original Note and you can really only get so wide and still fit in a human hand, and physical size vertically was already pretty much maxed out by 2018.
It'd be nice if that folding shit ever gets cheap and reliable enough for normal people. Huawei's got one now that's a trifold that has a fairly normal tablet aspect ratio when open instead of the weird square Samsung's doing, but it's crazy expensive and also China only.
Not to hand it to Samsung, Apple, et al, but consumer demands were like “we want a bigger screen, more battery, we don’t want the phones to get bigger, and also they should be lighter” and the engineers have kind of delivered.
I agree, today's phones are taller than they are wide but I still find them too big. The height makes it hard to reach notifications/quick settings and they aren't comfortable to carry in a front jeans pocket. I just got my first new smartphone in nine years, 16:9 screens and headphone jacks are still things I consider normal.
The phone on the left is a typical 5" model from 2015. The rest are some of the most compact Android phones from the last few years:
It just seems weird to me how there aren't more smaller options. Apple did the SE and the 13 mini. The 4a is the only one with a short enough height to comfortably pocket IMO, but you still have to reach further while using it.
I included the six year old Note 9 because it's what I have and it's kinda peak phone, at least until somebody makes a not shit foldable. I still have a headphone jack and a micro SD card slot and the bezel is as small as it can get without playing silly games with holepunches.
I do think a popsocket or similar grip doodad is very helpful for reaching everything and holding a phone securely.