Call for panelists! Join me for a panel on ✨Trans Studies and Deconstruction✨ at the Derrida Today Conference (July 2026, Paris). More info in 🧵 #Derrida #TransStudies #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #PhilSky #gendersky #signalboost #FeministSky #cfp #lit #socialtheory 🌈🎓 @derridatoday.bsky.social

You can join the discussion later this week, on the rise of "Global ‘Anti-Gender’ Politics: Nationalist, Populist and Feminist Convergences". This 2-day conference is free, online, and features 5 panels + a keynote by @reproutopia.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! #AcademicSky #PhilSky

A timely intervention, analysing the metaphor and coloniality of the possessive paradigm of rights. A Wynterian reading of Lugones' critique of purity, the paper challenges claims of a zero sum clash between trans women's and cis women's rights, proposing enmeshed rights as an alternative. #PhilSky

Registration closes soon - ‘Lifeworlds in Crisis: Applying Phenomenology’ Joint international conference: British Society for Phenomenology & University College Dublin University College Dublin, Ireland | 27 – 29 August 2025 sites.google.com/view/licdubl... #phenomenology #BSP2025UCD

A write-up of 2025's Celebration of Doctoral Research, held by the Centre for Applied #Philosophy, #Politics and Ethics. Learn about some of the researchers who CAPPE supports - and who you might want to collaborate with! #AcademicSky @thinkbrighton.bsky.social blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2025/0...

“Δες Ξεχνώ – ‘See I Forget” by Yianna Tsolaki. Concrete writing of 1973-74 in Famagusta denotes that this is not a #wasteland. This is the last week to submit to the "Everyday Resistance" conference, Brighton, Nov. 7! Submit by July 6 - forms.office.com/e/CT8Kj7MZya #desxehno #AcademicSky #PhilSky

FINAL WEEK TO SUBMIT! "Everyday Resistance: Thinking, making and living in the material world", Uni of Brighton, November 7, co-hosted by the centers for Applied #Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, and for #Design History. Submit by July 6th - forms.office.com/e/CT8Kj7MZya #AcademicSky #desxehno #CfP

“Δες Ξεχνώ – ‘See I Forget” by Yianna Tsolaki. 50 imprints in concrete; 50 years since Famagusta became a #GhostTown. Explore histories, cultures and materials of resistance at the “Everyday Resistance” conference in Brighton, Nov 7. Submit - forms.office.com/e/CT8Kj7MZya #AcademicSky #desxehno

#CfP now open! "Everyday Resistance: Thinking, making, and living in the material world". Submit to join keynote speaker, Prof. Anna Feigenbaum (@drfigtree.bsky.social) in Brighton on Nov 7th. Read the full CfP & submit: drive.google.com/file/d/1V9N0...

Thank you to Tim Huzar and everyone who contributed to yesterday's Critical Intersections Symposium at KCL, it was brilliant! Next to me here is Luqma Onikosi, whose fascinating paper explored the concept of "African Philosophy" and called for its recontextualisation within "Pluriversal Epistemes".

CfP: "Global ‘Anti-Gender’ Politics: Nationalist, Populist and Feminist Convergences", Uni of Brighton, 10th-12th September. Deadline for abstracts: June 6th.

Tomorrow, May 15, King's College London: Critical Intersections Symposium: Navigating Western and Non-Western Critical Traditions. Explore philosophical dialogues across traditions; embodied research & critical reflexivity; translations, care, & political imagination. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/criti...

I'm super excited for this symposium at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on May 15, where I will be speaking alongside some amazing speakers and panellists. The day focuses on dialogue between traditions that critique Western ontologies and epistemologies. Sign up 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/criti...

And a huge thanks also to @ucddublin.bsky.social, the conference co-organisers! There's never enough characters in a post...

Massive thanks to @thebsp.org.uk and conference committee for accepting my talk at #BSP2025UCD. I'll be speaking on "Ontological pluralism and phenomenological realism in trans-inclusive worlds of sense". Congratulations to all speakers, I look forward to meeting in Dublin! #phenomenology #philsky

New book, available for free for its first 2 weeks! Thomson is an incredibly clear #Heidegger commentator, esp. on #technology, onto-theology, and the History of Being. He's critical and thinks the "unthought", offering a "heterodox, left-Heideggerian postmodernism" www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Some cool new art/sculptures along the Black Rock boardwalk in Brighton: "Black Rock Beachcombers" by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May. 3d-printed collages, this one's kind of like how I imagine The Borrowers would build bird houses 🔨🐤 blackrockbeachcombers.co.uk

A blue sky fit for Bluesky here in Brighton. Has Spring finally sprung?

"Putting the cat among the pigeons" in Queens Park, Brighton

Really excited to be presenting at this conference, but more so for the amazing program of talks. Wendy Brown, Paul Gilroy, Eva Von Redecker, Robyn Marasco and more, all talking on #Democracy in Nihilistic Times. I hope to see you in #Brighton in March & April! blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2025/0...

In a 1923 lecture, #Heidegger paused momentarily, asking "Problem: What is woman?" He then very quickly and casually returned to the history of "the concept of man" 🤔 So much for the question of Being... www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

There are so many reasons to question Heidegger's selective, speculative, and problematical "histories" of Being and philosophy. The 1923 claim that "the history of the interpretation" of Genesis 1.26 "begins with Paul, 1 Cor. 11:7" is *wild*, and only the latest of such claims I've discovered.

So, a mouse got into the house... 2 things I've learned about mice: 1) They love mixed nuts, and will chew through several bags to reach them; 2) They're anti-EU apparently? #BrexitMice

More from the back garden foxes... Now 1 year old and confused at seeing snow for the first time.

Looks like this has now come out, and is on its way to Brighton Uni library. I don't think there's been a collection quite like this before, and the last comparable one dates to 2001 (but please let me know any more recent suggestions!) Looking forward to this arriving! rowman.com/ISBN/9781538...

CfP: Thinking with Wendy Brown, Uni of Brighton, March-April 2025. With keynotes Wendy Brown, Paul Gilroy, Robyn Marasco, Debaditya Bhattacharya, and Eva von Redecker. Deadline for abstracts: 15 December!

A super fascinating conversation between @talia-mae.bsky.social, @hilmalatino.bsky.social, PJ DiPietro and Andrea Pitts. Some great house pets even make an appearance in the last 30 minutes or so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3y...

@natashajkennedy.bsky.social smashing a talk at the CAPONEU workshop on #Bordering at Brighton University.

Missing the clumsy, playful fox cubs who used to visit the garden in spring 🦊🌼

A bad day at the office for whoever put a typo in the very first word, on the literal cover, of the book... Fortunately, the cover does not take away from the contents!

I had a fair few reservations about returning to "social" media after ~10 years out. The early connections, conversations and (very kindly shared) reading recommendations I've received here have been a good early indicator. Let's see if we (and @bsky.app) can make this a supportive academic space!

Talia Mae Bettcher put me onto multiple worlds of sense, and, via PJ DePietro, to multiple meaning realism. That's taken me to María Lugones' "active subjectivity" and its contrast to (some) post-structuralist reservations about the self. Super excited for March, to pull more on this thread!