Mark Eli Kalderon

It’s the Internet, Stupid What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

Did social media precipitate a political crisis?

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Maybe reflects the prescriptive character of his grammatical education. The kind of thing that was parodied: “‘Ain’t’ ain’t in the dictionary, so I ain’t going to say ‘ain’t’, I ain’t.”

Wow. Really well done

Yeah I give myself permission to write shit so long as it gets sorted later, so same

Well we had such a system, LectureCast, we have merely switched to Panopto

Even if not UCL specific, remain surprised at College’s readiness to identify with the surveillance state

Just learned that the new lecture recording facility at UCL has been dubbed Panopto

The administration are not Foucault readers apparently

Stronger if you just boldly pronounced The Thesis without the preamble.

Not that you were looking for literary advice sorry

Sorry, so it appears that McDowell’s contribution is lightly annotated. But only his

Untouched

Partially inspired by philosophy (especially Bergson’s) inspired a lot of philosophy, but I am going out on a limb and claim that he’s no philosopher. So a procedural objection to this particular FU

Cover of Subject, Thought, and Context, an anthology edited by Pettit and McDowell

New arrival

First purchased as an undergraduate, borrowed and not returned by Alex Byrne in graduate school (he denies it but I kept a list of books I lent) and now I somehow have Ted Honderich’s copy

In Search of Lost Stein The life and lasting influence of an American expat – Ryan Ruby

Is Gertrude Stein have a moment of rediscovery?

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FWIW I like Imprint's style. It strikes me as both elegant and readable. Typesetting a page is super hard, though. Having tried my hand at it (I redesigned the page of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society when I was editor—it took study and months of effort), I am now loathe to caste shade

The Big Cheese | Andrew Katzenstein Shadow Ticket is brisker than Thomas Pynchon’s other work, but it’s full of his usual vaudevillian sensibility, and it addresses his favorite theme: how to live freely under powerful systems of…

“Decency is a paltry weapon in an evil world, but Pynchon’s refusal to discount it is the strongest consolation his books offer.” —Andrew Katzenstein

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Rachel Ruysch and the bounties of nature The first woman to be admitted to The Hague’s artistic society, Rachel Ruysch was a great innovator who illuminated the wonders of the natural world.

On Rachel Ruysch

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Crosscurrants 1972

SPECIAL NOTE BY LENNIE TRISTANO During our Capitol recording session in May 1949 some significant things happened. After we did the conventional part of the date, we did the two free sides, "Intuition" and "Digression". As soon as we began playing the engineer threw up his hands and left his machine. The A & R man and the management thought I was such an idiot that they refused to pay me for the sides and to release them. Free form means playing without a fixed chord progression; without a time signature; without a specified tempo. I had been working with my men in this context for several years so that the music which resulted was not haphazard or hit and miss. Several months after that Capitol date, Symphony Sid who was a prominent disc jockey during that period, managed to grab a copy of those two free form sides. He played them three of four times a week on his nightly show over a period of several years. Through that, Capitol records received enough requests for those two sides to warrant releasing them. And, of course, they did pay me for them. In view of the fact that 15 years later a main part of the jazz scene turned into free form, I think this incident is very significant. These two sides were completely spontaneously improvised. A lot of people who heard them thought they were compositions. To my knowledge Miles Davis is the only noted musician who acknowledged in print the real nature of the music on those sides. LENNIE TRISTANO

tellectualism. There is, however, something more to it than that. For a Carnegie Hall concert, the pianist had himself advertised as "Lennie Tristano and his intuitive music". And Intuition was the title he gave to his pioneering free jazz record, which is easily the most exciting item on the Tristano side of this Ip. The mentality behind it is quite different from that of the latter-day free jazz, which was the logical next step after the bop procedures had become a stifling obstacle-course instead of an inspiring challenge. I suspect Tristano ventured into this area because at that time atonality and americal rhythms were the latest thing in music that was European, respectable and of the far-out variety. But throughout Intuition there is a marvelous suspense, a feeling that the group is about to slip into a groove of rollicking swing that is so painfully absent from the preceding tracks. There is nevertheless a more valid link with the jazz of the sixties. This becomes evident in Wow, where Konitz places his accents in much the same way as Tristano who uses acceleration and deceleration in an extremely personal manner during his improvisation. The result could be described as "wave-rhythm", ,and wave-rhythm - of course - became commonplace in the sixties. These seven Tristano sides are an important footnote to jazz history, because of their influence and because of the playing of two brilliant musicians. Because of the theoretical implications and the integrity of the music, with its boy-scoutlike whistling-in-the-morning-feeling.

Anyone interested in the history of Free Jazz needs this LP in their collection. The two Free Form cuts “Intuition” & “Digression” were Recorded May 1949, released 1972. #vinyl

Image of Cormac McCarthy\s copy of Wittgenstein's Blue and Brown Books with a grocery list

"One was Realism in Mathematics by Penelope Maddy. In the margins, McCarthy summarizes the author’s points and comments on them, frequently disagreeing. “Gibberish,” he noted at one point."

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The Dennes Room as it looks now, with John Searle's photo in the corner that used to house the Searle Chair.

The Searle Chair

John Searle died a couple weeks ago. Since people are sharing stories, I'll share one of my own.
As a philosopher of science studying developmental psychology, my dissertation committee initially consisted of Elisabeth Lloyd, Martin Jones, and Alison Gopnik. The topic led me 1/11

Collection of the Lebanese Maronite Order in Kaslik, Lebanon. (OLM 01367, folios 16r–15v): https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/507976

🧵(1) The Porphyrian Tree is a logic diagram used to explain Aristotle's "Categories," as outlined in Porphyry's commentary the "Isagoge.” The tree progressively subdivides “Being” into genera and species, ultimately reaching “Man,” with the names of individual people at the roots.

Why I gave the world wide web away for free My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

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Turkish Mambo, by Lennie Tristano The technique of overdubbing is second nature to recording artists and sound engineers. You record layers of musical performances one over another until you are satisfied that all the ingredients need...

Currently listening: Turkish Mambo by Lennie Tristano

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The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

On the post-literate society

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YouTube video by T.Rex T.Rex - 20th Century Boy (Full Version) [HD]

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Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased? They call it the "Greatest Generation"—so why is its art disappearing?

On the waning of mid-20th century culture

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I’ll admit it; I’ve become a late-in-life semicolon lover | Arwa Mahdawi Vonnegut hated them and Lincoln thought them ‘useful little chaps’. I, meanwhile, have come round to the charms of this controversial punctuation mark after years on the fence, writes Arwa Mahdawi

A paean to semicolons that eschews their use

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Philosophers of mind! The University of Vienna is offering a professorship and has extended the deadline to 19 October. philjobs.org/job/show/29293

Like Critias entering the conversation agōniōn kai philotimōs (Charmides 162c1–2, roughly in the spirit of competition and desirous of victory)

'A radical capacity to love life': New Nietzsche musical from local creators to debut Off Broadway "It's a full length musical that treats Friedrich Nietzsche, the famous philosopher, as the 'Hamilton' musical treats Hamilton." explained Gee, flipping through the book of music that he composed for

"I've studied him for over 30 years, I've written a book about him, and – the more I thought about it – the more it seemed that Nietzsche's philosophy needed a musical."

As you do

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