I have a great foreign policy idea: let's bully and threaten Canada, the friendliest possible neighbor and trade partner with whom we've had peace for 200 years! It'll work out!

Google Maps is actually going to change the name to Gulf of America. Tyrant’s baggage and lickspittles.

This is just days away from publication in Korea.

Somebody stole my Lacan book order from our package room. (?)

How can I launch my own crypto currency?

That declaration of drug cartels as terrorist organizations wasn't just for fun. He's really going to attack Latin American countries, isn't he?

Did Melania Trump lift her inauguration hat from the Hamburglar?

Republicans who rail against affirmative action for American minorities but then demand protection from Indian computer programmers. It's maybe the only issue where I side with Musk and Vivek.

People seem to feel like they've already done their election-related mourning and are enjoying internal Republican fights and making fun of Elon Musk. But we'll be snapped back to reality by the post-January 20 immigrant roundup. It's going to be ugly.

Adam Lovasz in Budapest has a new article on the difference between Latours approach to non-modernism and mine. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/posthum...

Another podcast is up, this one audio-only and far shorter. It was conducted by Paolo and Sohum, two highly advanced high school philosophy enthusiasts in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a pleasure to speak with them earlier today. open.spotify.com/episode/5LNG...

Just arrived in the mail. I wrote Chapter 9 of this book, "Objects and Fields of Sense."

I visited Rahul's podcast in Melbourne. But beware: it's 2 hours long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dPL...

From the archives: Steven Shaviro and Graham Harman - 2015 Whitehead Research Project Conference @sshaviro.bsky.social @objectoriented.bsky.social

In the newly released photos, the shooter looks uncannily like Dzokhar Tsarnaev (who is, of course, in the Florence Supermax prison awaiting the death penalty). nypost.com/2024/12/07/u...

Amazing how when you hit a certain age, hearing random loud pop music is incredibly annoying but classical music immediately healing. I used to suspect that was largely a pose by older people, but it's more like a physical fact.

Come on, Trump. You're not supposed to troll the public with your Cabinet picks, especially with a post as globally important as Defense.

For readers of Turkish, I am one of a number of analytic & continental philosophers interviewed in this new book by Osman Baran Kaplan. www.kitapyurdu.com/kitap/felsef...

From Safranski's biography of Goethe I had not the expected sense of a golden boy unable to fail at anything he touches, but more the sense of someone whose decision making processes were poorly focused and often counterproductive. Yet his best writing is almost incredibly good.

Los Angeles needs a better airport than LAX, but there’s no place to put one.

Jon Cogburn and Niki Young with a new article on vicarious causation. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Shocking news of the death of my former Cairo colleague, Dr. John Baboukis, music program director. He was witty, insightful, ethically grounded. What a terrible loss. www.aucegypt.edu/fac/john-bab...

We felt that earthquake at 2:15 PM. Only a 3.5, with epicenter 4 miles north of Malibu, but we felt and heard it in Long Beach

I guess we all got a bit sick of Nate Silver in recent years, but he did call the Trump win correctly, unpleasant though it was.

Ask Chat GPT to assess where various philosophers are or have been on the Gartner Hype Cycle to gain insight into career trajectories.

Mr. Norman Powell, sir. He’s on a roll so far this season.

This is not a bad time to read Carl Schmitt’s book on dictatorship. Know your enemy.

In my seat for tonight’s Clippers-Magic game, and received a free Norman Powell bobble head doll for my troubles. #Clippers

Mike Tyson just reminded all of Gen-X how old we are.

The Spanish translation of Immaterialism is now available, from Roneo in Chile.

All right, I guess this is worth a try.