Tim Howles

Today I have had some time to read the very beautiful short story, “Elephant”, by Raymond Carver, one the last pieces he wrote before his death

From a Watershed to the Parting of the Waters: A Note on Michel Foucault and Peter Brown Back in November 2014, while I was researching Foucault’s Last Decade, I wrote “A minor note on Michel Foucault and Peter Brown: From a watershed to the parting of the waters” for th…

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German reunification celebrations in front of the Reichstag on 3 October 1990

35 years ago, Germany was reunified.

A very interesting CFP for an edited book on "Ludwik Fleck and the Historiography of Science: The Theory of Thought Styles and Thought Collectives at the Centennial" periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/tr...

It’s really an impressive work and a deep historical vision.

Today, reading (again) this excellent book:
"Drama of the Divine Economy: Creator and Creation in Early Christian Theology and Piety"
Paul M. Blowers

"And the First Reason is this, that we may lay the Foundation of making the Earth a Common Treasury for All, both Rich and Poor, That every one that is born in the land may be fed by the Earth his Mother, according to the Reason that rules in Creation."

Gerrard Winstanley

Manatees are among the most wonderful of all God’s creatures.

Hope it’s been a great trip.

Thanks for what you’ve contributed here.

"Rise of the International: International Relations meets History"
ed. Richard Devetak & Tim Dunne

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"Living Through Capitalism: Resisting Devastation Through Communities of Life"
James A. Chamberlain
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-living-...

"Whitehead at Harvard, 1925-1927"
Edited by Joseph Petek, Brian G. Henning
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-whitehe...

Tomorrow at 10

It will be one of: +London, +Chelmsford, +Sheffield or +Bath and Wells

Should be excellent:

“Late Heaney”
Nicholas Allen
A personal and lyrical study of Seamus Heaney's work after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995

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@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social

Beautiful image.

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Pope Leo XIV: “Our ecological conversion is no different to the conversion that orients us to the living God.”

Great.

Not if you read Bruno Latour!

I stand with Bergson over Einstein. Vitalism contrasted with mechanization. Creation against disembodied ratiocination. Personality over uniformity. Time as durée. A properly Christian metaphysics.

I hope to be able to go to this: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the...

Balthus
"The Card Game"
1948 - 1950

Oil on canvas.
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

An important new report on religion, theology and climate change in UK institutions:
lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/publications...
From: @lsrioxford.bsky.social

A new book responding to Pope Francis’ social teaching on ecology and climate crisis is now available as a free digital download:
lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/node/1882
From the Laudato Si' Research Institute, Campion Hall, University of Oxford

John Searle, influential philosopher in the history of Analytic philosophy with works in philosophy of mind and language, has passed away. R.I.P. (1932-2025)

5. This is mirrored by the lichen motif. Lichen is a marriage of fungus and bacteria that creates new properties that neither possess on their own. Similarly, Munro is suggesting that this ungodly marriage of Stella and David is a thing mutually beneficial to each of them.