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The Bride Wore Black (1968) ⭐ 7.2 | Crime, Drama, Mystery 1h 47m | Unrated

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The film by Truffaut based on this book is absolutely amazing.

You mean 1939?

None.

What the "anti-escalationists" of all stripes don't realize (or pretend they don't) is that if the Russo-Ukrainian war is ended on Russia's terms, then ALL disputed territories anywhere are immediately up for grabs. Because military force will once again be an acceptable way to change state borders.

…and can also be found you know where ;)

A collection of essays about the relationship of philosophy and language, arguing (with lots of evidence) that the structures of languages can both limit and enable certain ways of thinking philosophically.

"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!

For those who enjoy a good laugh: Hugleikur Dagsson has joined this platform, because of censorship in the Meta. Irreverent and witty as usual, a bit like what George Carlin would have looked like if his jokes were drawn.

Power: a processual view The article proposes a new way to define power and to evaluate it in ethical terms, based on a processual view instead of the habitual object-oriented one. It first presents an outline of process o...

This is out now! Let me know if you wish to read it but do not have access - some free e-prints are still available.

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Think of the influence African art and music have had on avant-garde painting and sculpture in the early twentieth century or the emergence of jazz as a musical language. There is no reason why philosophy should not go through a similar development.” 4/x, end.

which actually exist and are used in certain natural languages, can become a powerful tool for our own philosophizing because it allows us to free ourselves from the constraints, which the language(s) we grew up with normally pose to our thinking. 3/x

of the Georgian language would most probably never be asked. With good reason, the reader might grunt at this point, but please bear with me: one of the things that I intend to show in this book is precisely that the knowledge of the grammatical possibilities, 2/x

“While it would perhaps still be understandable how Jacques Derrida’s views on life and death relate to the understanding of what Buddhist praxis means for Dōgen, the question of how both of these might be affected by the discussion of specific grammatical structures 1/x

Coming out this spring! Stay tuned!
Cover art © Peeter Laurits

Very happy to note these perceptive comments on my "Being in Flux" by Thomas Fröhlich, a German scholar working on rather different topics than myself, have now been made public.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta A second update on Elon Musk's coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent

Garret Graff has been reporting on US events as if they were "happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents writing with more incisive authority" - although a US publication would hardly dedicate so much space to anything happening in a foreign country.

Freue mich sehr! Auch eine deutsche Übersetzung wird aber ganz bald erscheinen, hoffentlich noch in diesem Jahr.

Kas seni ei tähendanud saluut siiski ilutulestikku?

In Russia, corrupt oligarchs get what they want if they loyally support the Führer. Apparently, the same is happening in the US. In Russia, the parliament votes for whatever bullshit is proposed by the Führer. Apparently, the same is happening in the US. 2/2

One of the things Putin has been constantly claiming is that the US, despite all its talk about "democracy" and "human rights" is fundamentally just like Russia. Trump does not have to do Putin's bidding directly. His greatest service to Putin is making his words come true. 1/2

In Russia, corrupt oligarchs get what they want if they loyally support the Führer. Apparently, the same is happening in the US. In Russia, the parliament votes whatever bullshit is proposed by the Führer. Apparently, the same is happening in the US. 2/2

Just discovered the online philosophy journal Klesis, via @philalethe1.bsky.social - seems very interesting, mostly in French, but with some pieces in English, incl by David Chalmers, @keithfrankish.bsky.social, @lukeroelofs.bsky.social and others. Certainly seems worth following!

I have this problem all the time. And now the deadlines are so short, too. You virtually have to drop everything and start reading them as soon as they arrive.

There is a profound contradiction at the heart of the "conservative" (=radical extreme right) worldview: on the one hand, they want women to bear as many children as possible, on the other, they do what they can to make the planet uninhabitable by the time these children might come of age.

An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee As Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it out Wow! That escalated quickly. Last time I filed my supposedly funny column, only two weeks ago, Los Angeles wasn’t on fire;…

An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee

Now that the birthday of #Deleuze is over, I hope nobody minds my saying that I have a problem with him. The reason? He gets too much credit as the inventor of things that had been invented long before him by people he had no respect for. Who? Asian philosophers. The list is too long.

Finally!