What the "anti-escalationists" of all stripes don't realize (or pretend they don't) is that if the Russo-Ukrainian war is ended on Russia's terms, then ALL disputed territories anywhere are immediately up for grabs. Because military force will once again be an acceptable way to change state borders.

…and can also be found you know where ;)

"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!

For those who enjoy a good laugh: Hugleikur Dagsson has joined this platform, because of censorship in the Meta. Irreverent and witty as usual, a bit like what George Carlin would have looked like if his jokes were drawn.

This is out now! Let me know if you wish to read it but do not have access - some free e-prints are still available.

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Coming out this spring! Stay tuned! Cover art © Peeter Laurits

Very happy to note these perceptive comments on my "Being in Flux" by Thomas Fröhlich, a German scholar working on rather different topics than myself, have now been made public. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Garret Graff has been reporting on US events as if they were "happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents writing with more incisive authority" - although a US publication would hardly dedicate so much space to anything happening in a foreign country.

One of the things Putin has been constantly claiming is that the US, despite all its talk about "democracy" and "human rights" is fundamentally just like Russia. Trump does not have to do Putin's bidding directly. His greatest service to Putin is making his words come true. 1/2

Just discovered the online philosophy journal Klesis, via @philalethe1.bsky.social - seems very interesting, mostly in French, but with some pieces in English, incl by David Chalmers, @keithfrankish.bsky.social, @lukeroelofs.bsky.social and others. Certainly seems worth following!

There is a profound contradiction at the heart of the "conservative" (=radical extreme right) worldview: on the one hand, they want women to bear as many children as possible, on the other, they do what they can to make the planet uninhabitable by the time these children might come of age.

An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee

Now that the birthday of #Deleuze is over, I hope nobody minds my saying that I have a problem with him. The reason? He gets too much credit as the inventor of things that had been invented long before him by people he had no respect for. Who? Asian philosophers. The list is too long.

A metaphysician is a physician who cures other physicians. And metastable? A building where metahorses live.

Anyone interested in process ontology might want to look at Dynamic Realism - Uncovering the Reality of Becoming through Phenomenology and Process Philosophy, by Tina Röck (Edinburgh UP 2022). We share a lot, but there are interesting differences - she relies a lot on Husserl, quite surprisingly!

A common myth used by many pundits is that Russia is somehow invincible. It is not. Losses in Russo-Japanese war, World War I and Soviet-Afghan war led also to regime change. Ukraine must be supported so that imperialist Russia collapses. euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/08/i...

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There's no fuzz on the lesson we must take from the ascension of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in U.S. politics: when you fail to equitably apply the rule of law to all persons regardless of their wealth or connections, you create a class of criminal as shameless and pathological as they are dangerous.

I almost managed to get through this year without publishing anything. Almost. Just a moment ago, I got the notice that my "Selfhood and Individuality in Dōgen’s Thought" is now out (open access). A nice present! A happy turn of the year to you too! www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

…unlike, you know, the other bearded old man?

The whole thread about neural AI networks is interesting, but this is something exceptional (also what I have suspected for quite some time).

Asking for advice: I hope to be teaching a seminar on the philosophy of mental health this spring term and I already have a rather nice list of texts for my syllabus (in the first comment), but I am likely to be missing some imporant names. Please point them out to me.

Misinformation spreads more quickly when it provokes moral outrage, and readers are less likely to fact-check as well. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An exercise in conceptual analysis: find the contradiction in the following statement by the founders of the “American Academy”, planned to become the leading US university: “It will be strictly non-political, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed—none of that's going to be allowed.”

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

In a struggle, what you need to do is to influence your opponent’s decision-making capacities. You can do that f ex by manipulating the information they rely on. Or try to remove competent strategists from the picture. 1/2

What if Deleuze'is "body without organs" is a deliberate dash at Whitehead, who called his work "the philosophy of organism"? We know that Deleuze really only discusses him once, and a bit superficially even then, see the linked article by @sshaviro.bsky.social. www.shaviro.com/Othertexts/D...

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+ the Authoritarian International of Putin, Xi, Kim, Le Pen, AfD, courting Modi, Erdogan and many others. And let's put them in the first place of the whole list of whom the people have to face. (NB! The People, too, should be "the people everywhere" and not "The People" as in American court cases).

Let’s connect! Philosophers working on cross-cultural philosophy, decolonial theory, and World Philosophies, let us know if you want to join the pack go.bsky.app/581tzug

Just discovered this - seems very useful, and very generous of @helendecruz.net to share! Also nice to feel that being here instead of working on my “Dōgen on selfhood” article has been time well spent.

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Whoever follows the object-process debate might want to read this recent article by Pascal Massie. I think his treatment of opponents is fair and Massie is also engaging with material by @objectoriented.bsky.social that is not too widely known. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

One of those days when you have to read Nietzshce to the logs in the fireplace so that they would get how much more fun it might be if they were burning.