Simon Glendinning

In the third of the published volumes (XII-XV), in English p. 72. A dog (“my dog”) called Mohrle. I don’t think Heidegger changed his mind on animality - but his formulations on animal worldlessnes do vary.

Isn’t the bit after the not understanding bit it explained by the not understanding it bit?

He did have a dog though and he talks about it in the Ponderings text. A black Pomeranian.

He gloved it, no?

I don’t know the Swiss model - but I’m talking about parliamentary, electoral politics without parties, not “direct democracy”. (Simone Weil is my guide here.)

Very true - but the assessment part of this may be very skewed, or may rest on unfounded fears, as well as solid reasons. (I am not sure about the claim in parentheses btw. One of the things I mentioned in my own contribution with him was the way the party form prevents people speaking their mind.)

We are still buzzing from Tuesday night’s Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture with Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister (1990–1997) 🇬🇧

🎥 Video and podcast out soon!

Sir John Major gave the Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture at LSE on Tuesday. He did not pull his punches on Brexit, calling it “an act of collective folly” and calling out the timidity of our political leaders who fail to speak out about the damage it has done to the UK, politically and economically.

Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.

John Major yesterday at LSE: 1. “In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to lead to European Union across the world, our enemies celebrated and our friends despair.”1/

What does that reveal about norms? How about these two things? 1. that not respecting them is always possible. (A freedom condition.) But also 2. that it is not simply a statistical statement that norms (eg of right conduct) are typically respected. (A recognition condition.)

Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.

Newsnight accused of selectively editing same Trump Capitol riots speech as Panorama BBC show accused of editing speech to make it appear as if Trump made a more explicit call for violence from his supporters

The splicing of Trump’s speech by the BBC is really shitty journalism.

The airtime devoted to the Reform agenda on migration by the BBC is really dangerous journalism.

#BBC - you are becoming a danger to this country. Lightweight and Lazy.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

This paper examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process. Comparing these with contemporary forecasts – providing a rare macro example to complement the burgeoning microliterature of social science predictions – shows that these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade.

Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

He thought he could resolve a party conflict in a national way. It did not resolve that conflict and proved a disaster for the nation he played politics with.

He reckoned on winning. Perhaps he could have if the image in Scotland (below) had been replicated nationally. He did not reckon on Corbyn.

The Formation of European Studies Academic studies of Europe in the postwar period increasingly focused on aspects of European integration. This development was led by contributions from the social sciences, not the humanities. The...

If you are interested in what *might* be a possible “race without racism” conception, see the final footnotes to my recent (and also free!) paper on the formation of European Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Right - culture as a proxy for race: “spiritual racism”. This is something one can see in Husserl but is not, I think, Heidegger’s position (or Spengler’s for that matter) - which is more about a contrast between (anyone) having it and not having it, rather than a hierarchy of types. But it’s crazy…

So the text I’m reading is Heidegger’s Black Notebooks. He doesn’t think the idea of breeding that is internal to the modern theory of race (as he understands it) is necessarily something thought through or thought out teleologically but he does think it has this drive towards deracialisation in it.

Fascinating. I am reading a text atm which argues that European race theory is inseparable from a “progressivist” theory of “breeding” that posits a telos of attained global deracialisation: everyone would have the same “block” characteristics. Marshall would doubtless favour Anglo-Saxon ones.

You don’t need a master’s degree to see Britain depends on foreign students Editorial: The government’s effort to drive down the number of student visas coming to study in this country is misguided and self-defeating – it will do untold damage to our universities and communit...

Leader editorial in the Independent calls for students to be taken out of migration figures, describing UK government policy quite rightly as “asinine”. www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

And Neurath’s tract is perhaps even less convincing… (I confess, I am trying to do better myself.)

Have you read my work??

Is the Adorno article the same one published under the title “Spengler Today”? That essay is fascinating - and strangely unconvincing in its appeal to a utopian hope in the effort to find a weak point in Spengler’s conception.

I had not heard, so we’ve not already heard.

I thought the tracks I have listened to were hilarious. I really like the juxtaposition of the tunes and lyrics; very simple idea no doubt but also good fun and nicely done.

Perhaps my work in the deconstruction of onto-theology is finally pushing through.

But how will the markets react when they realise that giving up on ontology (the metaphysics of presence) calls for a counter conception best conceived as (to the ear indistinguishable [in French]) hauntology?

Maybe - but you should check out what some humans are doing too though, in “art” making. The awful thing is not what human interactions with LLMs says about LLMs - but what they show up about humans (being sometimes uncannily alike to them).

Shame on the BBC. Who is the more dangerous? An overpaid racist who should be as invisible as his sense of decency - or the publicly funded news organisation that has utterly lost its sense of public service? #BBC get a grip or you will take our democracy down.

The night Shafali Verma defied her destiny, and then owned it Left out, written off, then crowned Player of the Final in a tournament Shafali Verma wasn't even meant to play. If that's not destiny, what is?

The final was never likely to better India’s win vs Australia in the semifinal - but Harmanpreet Kaur asking the 21 year old opener Shafali Verma to bowl at a very difficult time, when the game was getting away from India, was a match winning leap in the dark. www.espncricinfo.com/story/women-...

I hope the BBC will challenge Nigel Farage today over the economic damage caused by the Brexit he championed.

He needs to be held to account for the damage he's done instead of always being given an easy ride.

Some live things; specifically North American live things. There’s a lot of live things going on elsewhere that hardly get a look in on this American-centred (sic) “functional social media site”. Still: I actually do hope you enjoyed the amazing conclusion to the hilariously titled “World Series”.