And tonight we are enjoying being with the wonderful @petersalmon.bsky.social leading a public lecture on #Derrida #Metaphysics & why #DerridaMatters for #Philosophy. If you haven’t yet read his incredible #Derrida biography you simply must! #AnEventPerhaps #philsky #booksky @versobooks.bsky.social

Perhaps we can stop being so parochial about Starmer's trip to Washington now. It was a failure. We are in a battle against fascism. And every decision we make is judged by whether it assisted or opposed it.

#IStandWithZelenskyy

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Pass it on.

Genuinely sad to do this, the end of a once great newspaper. #bezos #wapo

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Donna from Twin Peaks at the moment she realises Laura is dead. She is howling in the classroom, hand to her neck, the other holding her wrist in a gesture of self-comfort.

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy Analytic philosophy is the dominant form of philosophy in the English-speaking world, and beyond, today. What explains its continuing success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can on...

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy can now be pre-ordered direct from @versobooks.bsky.social

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One of my favourite folk myths in the UK is 'The Days When Postage Was Cheaper'. Love how the person serving at the post office always winces as they say something like, "It's going to be £1.49, is that ok?"

New life in the veins From Soviet scientists to tech moguls, blood has been the subject of our wildest experiments

My @newhumanist.bsky.social essay on the strange history of blood transfusions is online now!

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Fascinating thread! Can't spend time with it right now, but will return asap. 😀

Might try that anyway...

At @artreview.bsky.social I am looking for new writers for opinion-led columns, expansive reviews and on-the-ground reporting to tackle social and political questions (both big and small) through the world of art and culture. Here are some highlights from our publishing over the last few months.

Excellent, will buy!

Christ, imagine dealing with emails when you emerged...

Thank you!

Just taking a moment to remember that when A J Ayer was working for the Special Operations Executive in 1941-2 he spent time in Algiers, and so may have passed an 11 year old Jacques Derrida in the street, maybe even kicked a football with him... #Ayer #Derrida

It is a very good thing.

Melbourne 😃

If anyone is interested, I am teaching a course on Jean Hyppolite beginning tonight 7:30 AEST

Yes, one of his least convincing theories... But why did he cling to it so tenaciously? We'd have to ask Freud 😃

Little known picture of T. S. Eliot as an extra in the 1978 film Death on the Nile, starring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. #tseliot

To which one reply is, "No, it hasn't" :-)

Yes shouting - "There is no Oedipus Complex" at one's therapist not recommended... :-) For me, I have genuine questions about whether there is an unconscious, but in the same way as I wonder if the is Hegelian Spirit. Doesn't invalidate all their thinking. But nor is it rsistance.

It's actually only n't they fail on.

Reflections on cinema by a French auteur Some time in 1929, the seven-year-old Chris Marker saw something that would change his life. As he described it almost seventy years later, he was

My article on The Early Film Writings of Chris Marker is in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social Rush to your local bookshop or newsagents to get the second half!

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MSCP Summer School 2025 Ten 10-hour courses taught in-person and online.

Program for the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy has just dropped, and it's a beauty as ever.

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This looks like a great funded opportunity for public philosophers

Very Freudian that, unlike other thinkers, if you disagree with some of the fundamentals of Freud you are accused of 'resisting' him. I disagree with some of the fundamentals of Hegel, but that's not 'resistance'.

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