read Marx
![Poster for this semester's reading group. We meet every first Wednesday at 4:15pm (CET) at Ruhr University Bochum (room NDEF04/346). If you need more information (abstract of the book, topics of the individual dates, information about the moodle course etc.), please e-mail me! vera.straetmanns[at]rub.de](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pknrfjwd3hv36hn7ga44sgla/bafkreiejs57fz7q3te4xy5ylb5zrhk6qy6474mgwn6bnpsir3gmbtujup4)
This semester, we will be reading selected chapters from "Everything flows", edited by @djnicholson.bsky.social and John Dupré in our Reading Group. All interested are welcome to join us at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de (room NDEF04/346). If needed, we can also arrange hybrid meetings.
#HPBio #PhDSky
CFP: Dialectics and Life (Marxism & Sciences, Issue 10)
Main topics: organism–environment coupling, critical 4E cognition, social metabolism, dialectical approaches to modeling.
Abstracts due 1 June 2026
👉 www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/cfp-d...
Continuing to listen to David Levering Lewis's riveting biography of Du Bois.
In today's chapter, Lewis suggested that Du Bois combined the voices of Sojourner Truth and Schopenhauer and I have not been able to think straight since.
#DuBois #sojournertruth #blackhistory #schopenhauer #philsky
VIRALITY VITALITY brings deconstruction to the life sciences, showing how viruses unsettle the very concept of “life.” Drawing on Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Basile explores the unstable borders between virus and organism, self and other.
#ACLA2026 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/c3h7j9uy
Welcome to the social media page of the International Philosophy of Biology Circle (IPBC) 🌐
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📣 UK Kant Society: Andrew Cooper Essay Prize 2026
The UK Kant Society has announced a newly-named early career essay prize, in honour of the society's late executive committee member and friend, Andrew Cooper. The prize is £500.
Deadline: 30 June 2026
More details 👇
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Music resembles language in the sense that it is a temporal sequence of articulated sounds which are more than just sounds. They say something, often something human. The better the music, the more forcefully they say it. | Adorno
The title of this excellent article from Patrick Savage is spot on.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
RIP Éliane Radigue, visionary composer of electro-acoustic music, tape music, and drone
That we cannot tell what the human is does not establish a particularly majestic anthropology: it vetoes any anthropology. | Adorno
Excited to learn that Jessica Riskin has a timely reappraisal of Lamarck coming out soon.
We're happy to announce our 12th ROTO Workshop: "Diversity in Motion". It will be held on March 26-27 in Bochum. Please register here: rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity/co... and tell us if you'll participate in person or online. Registration and participation is free and everybody is welcome!
I want to know what’s true about nature. It’s not that I do the politics and therefore I lay it on Nature. I have to be sure that Nature really allows that. | Lewontin
The interaction of natural bodies—both dead and living—comprises harmony as well as strife, struggle as well as co-operation. | Engels
a lot of cool tracks on this one. I loved Mrzy 2 (Stone Mix) and Population
Why should we read Henri Bergson's "Creative Evolution" today? There is more than just one reason, see my extended book review, just published in Mind: academic.oup.com/mind/advance... #Bergson #philosophy #philbio #ProcessPhilosophy #biology #science #HenriBergson
Super excited for this collection of writings on underground music in the late twentieth century from @reversediorama.bsky.social
If you were to press me to follow the example of the Ancients and make a list of the cardinal virtues, I would probably respond cryptically by saying that I could think of nothing except for modesty. | Adorno
Wait but I liked the humanist subject
Wonderful book offering a “critical theory of erotic love and friendship,” which criticizes the romantic ideologies of our present, and defends the erotic bond as a source of refuge and resistance
Registration is open for this event 16-17 March @royalsociety.org with programme (titles and abstracts) available online: royalsociety.org/science-even.... In person and online.
Progress is a noxious, culturally embedded, untestable, nonoperational, intractable idea that must be replaced if we wish to understand the patterns of history. | Gould
My own review of @quinnslobodian.com's Hayek's Bastards, exploring the influence of neoliberalism, and its racist and nationalist strains, on evolutionary theory and the life sciences: olrsupplement.com/2025/05/19/g...
happy holidays from the Oregon coast
With the end of this year, Stuart Newman will step down from his role as Editor-in-Chief.
We sincerely thank Stuart for his outstanding 10 years of service and dedication to Biological Theory!
Read Stuart's Farewell Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
