Josh Richardson

Noticing a lot of different uses of the word heterodox these days! Very interesting as it gets deployed more often in the discourse and in different contexts.

Great interview with the author about the book from Know Your Enemy podcast: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/k...

Current listening @swordsjew.bsky.social

Light refracts in lens flare enframing a beaver chewed tree fallen in a forest.

“… what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light — with its colors, its rays and undulations, its gentle omnipresence in the form of the wakening Day?” - Novalis

YouTube video by James Adomian ŽIŽEK vs. ŽXŽW: My god, what is this polycrisis?

“There is no such thing as happiness, but we are having a good time.” Comedian James Adomian as Slovenian rockstar philosophy Slavoj Zizek: ŽIŽEK vs. ŽXŽW: My god, what is this polycrisis? youtu.be/yq838u_uMrU?...

S5 E5 - Cristian Larroulet Philippi on Measurement in the Human Sciences Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 2025-08-13 · 29m

Is depression a measurable quantity? What about intelligence? Great podcast on these kind of questions. From @hpspodcast.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

RECENT ACTIVITY ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER THE BATTLE FOR ALGIERS SHOAH ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Last four watched. #lastfourwatched

La bataille Alger THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS

I’m callin’ in a greyhawk 10 tonight.

Podcast episode via @liberalcurrents.com Matt’s remarks come at about the 46min mark.

Charlie Kirk and the Roots of the Far Right Podcast Episode · Half the Answer · 2025-10-01 · 1h 31m

Great to hear @mattpolprof.bsky.social call for the left to have a more transcendent vision for politics, rather than the technocratic, instrumentalist approach much of it has stumbled into. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/h...

The Spiritual Sound, by Agriculture 10 track album

Very interesting: agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...

YouTube video by NFB Kubota

RIP Nabuo Kubota (1932-2025) • Kubota (1982) directed by Jonny Silver from the NFB • youtu.be/09CCuQijJ1A?...

I did not anticipate that the project I’m working on would end up being a defence of global mental health.

On writing philosophy columns Or "why are the internet men yelling at me again?"

I wrote about internet men having big feelings about my little philosophy columns

wellreadherring.substack.com/p/on-writing...

Development of an Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ): Are most people really social addicts? - Behavior Research Methods A growing number of self-report measures aim to define interactions with social media in a pathological behavior framework, often using terminology focused on identifying those who are ‘addicted’ to engaging with others online. Specifically, measures of ‘social media addiction’ focus on motivations for online social information seeking, which could relate to motivations for offline social information seeking. However, it could be the case that these same measures could reveal a pattern of friend addiction in general. This study develops the Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ) by re-wording items from highly cited pathological social media use scales to reflect “spending time with friends”. Our methodology for validation follows the current literature precedent in the development of social media ‘addiction’ scales. The O-FAQ had a three-factor solution in an exploratory sample of N = 807 and these factors were stable in a 4-week retest (r = .72 to .86) and was validated against personality traits, and risk-taking behavior, in conceptually plausible directions. Using the same polythetic classification techniques as pathological social media use studies, we were able to classify 69% of our sample as addicted to spending time with their friends. The discussion of our satirical research is a critical reflection on the role of measurement and human sociality in social media research. We question the extent to which connecting with others can be considered an ‘addiction’ and discuss issues concerning the validation of new ‘addiction’ measures without relevant medical constructs. Readers should approach our measure with a level of skepticism that should be afforded to current social media addiction measures.

Had missed this absolutely brilliant paper. They take a widely used social media addiction scale & replace 'social media' with 'friends'. The resulting scale has great psychometric properties & 69% of people have friend addictions.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

It is really great and lines up very well with Habermas and Charles Taylor’s most recent works IMO. Although they don’t always agree of course! I learned a great deal.

Hans Joas The Power of the Sacred An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

Self-transcendence is something universal, shared across cultures & creeds, forming our most deeply held beliefs. The Power of the Sacred shows how this provides a positive alternative to the theory of disenchantment, which has been central to accounts of modernity since the early 20th century.

I still see quite a few of those around here. Eggs especially, along with veggies.

Hans Joas and Matthias Bormuth eds., Podcast Episode · New Books in Intellectual History · 2025-07-01 · 1h 36m

Very interesting discussion on Karl Jaspers with Hans Joas and Matthias Bormuth on the occasion of the new Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/n...

A giant!

Omg I just started watching it. Love it so much!

“Gladiolas $2 per stalk or 4 for $5” • Picked up flowers for a wedding from an unattended roadside flower stall featuring a note that read “Thanks for your honesty.”
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Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

ANDREA WULF Best-selling author of The Invention of Nature MAGNIFICENT REBELS THE FIRST ROMANTICS -and the INVENTION OF THE SELF

Really enjoying this. #magnificentrebels

YouTube video by Speculative Psychiatry Group Prof John Sadler - Vice and Psychiatric Diagnosis

Prof John Sadler discusses his recent book Vice and Psychiatric Diagnosis, published March 2024 by Oxford University Press youtu.be/nKJZRd9FzbA?... via The Speculative Psychiatry Group

It’s happening.

Die neue Sonderausgabe ist da!

Die Jahrhundert-Philosophen

Mit Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Peter Sloterdijk, Thomas Nagel, Hélène Cixous, Jürgen Habermas, Tu Weiming, Peter Singer, Slavoj Žižek, Donna Haraway, Alexander Kluge.

Hier geht's zur Heftvorschau: is.gd/I0ToNp

IMAX LEONARDO DICAPRIO SEAN PENN BENICIO DEL TORO REGINA HALL TEVANA TAYLOR CHASE INFINITI EXPERIENCE IT IN MAY ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON SEPTEMBER 26

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Its also a huge, glaring omission for NYT to not mention the role of Bessel van der Kolk in the debacle of The Tell. He set the foundation for recovery of repressed memories to be casually accepted and promoted the book with a blurb.

Thinking of Richard Laviolette.