Volume I of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy now published! journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn... #philsky

"My task as a translator is to preserve the poem’s heartbeat and transport it alive across a thousand-year distance." -Shangyang Fang talks with C. Francis Fisher about translating for "Study of Sorrow" : https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/phases-of-the-quotidien-a-conversation-with-shangyang-fang/

At once so subtle and so powerful

Embarkation of Queen of Sheba, 1648, by Claude Lorrain, French Baroque artist known for ideal landscapes inspired by Roman campagna, and seaports suffused with golden light, which influenced work of Constable & Turner; died #OTD 1682. National Gallery London

Great day for it 🏏

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, le philosophe qui a l’art de faire dialoguer les cultures

CONFERENCE TIME is almost upon us!! Things kick off tomorrow (Nov 21) with our dedicated online day 🤖💻🖱️💾 For more info: ascp.org.au/conference

"Benameur is not interested in reclaiming the purity or origin of a homeland or language... The grammar she seeks for this modern world is prescriptive but relational — built of fragments, multilingual echoes, and translations".

Publié en 1955, "Tristes Tropiques" est un regard lucide sur la modernité. Celui d’un ethnologue qui, derrière la découverte de l’autre, voyait déjà la fin d’un monde. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/O7V

Important work, well done!

Hmm, no mention of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom 🤔 #🎻

"If we need, as Hegel suggested, to grasp our own time in thought, that includes grasping where we might think it went astray. This is why I still think it is worth tracing the malign velocities of accelerationism and its mutations." 🦉

My review of Katherine Brading and Marius Stan, Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason, Oxford University Press, 2024, ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/phil...

On the importance of Deleuze's 'genetic formalism' for philosophical aesthetics 🎨

Process as method

According to Sanskrit philosophers, children don't become proficient language users through individual words, but through sentences. Śālikanātha says that they have to extract the meaning of individual words through their presence or absence in the sentences they hear. #SanskritPhilosophy

Jobs and growth 🤡

I had a wonderful conversation with Scott Stephens and Walled Aly on Radio Nationa's "The Minefield." Episode - on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop - now online: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

"Look, maybe it’s just me, but does anyone else find it a little sad to see the glamor of the night before contorted into commerce and alienation by these mimetic simulacra?"

Il y a 30 ans disparaissait un philosophe dont les cours ont marqué des générations d’étudiants. 🎙️ Voici 16 leçons inédites de Gilles Deleuze, extraites de plus de 400 heures de cours enregistrées par ses élèves et auditeurs entre 1979 et 1987 ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yG

Recognition of an important project 👏

This Friday! 🤔🤖

"Ce n’est guère une exagération que de dire que la chronobiologie humaine et l’astronomie lunaire ne sont, en fin de compte, que les deux principaux aspects de la plus ancienne science du monde."

A spring stroll in the hills 🤩

Fascinating work, both empirically & theoretically: "Evans thinks the Chomskyans are looking through the wrong end of the telescope, and that what defines language is its staggering diversity – the vast span of 'engineering solutions' that evolution has found to the problem of human communication"

"The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good."

What a treat - @histphilosophy.bsky.social in the latest @lrb.co.uk

Trump, Poutine : chacun invente sa novlangue pour supprimer les mots et avec eux, les réalités qu'ils désignent. Face à cette manipulation, la philosophe Barbara Cassin imagine une culture européenne émancipatrice, capable de s’affirmer comme un rempart. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yZ

Pour one out for @wikipedia.org in my latest for @mcsweeneys.net

Formidable scholars doing formidable scholarship! This collection will be cited often #Simondon

"Philosophy occupies a 'unique modal space' where it discerns 'conditions of intelligibility whose necessity is not logical yet whose contingency is not empirical'" 🤌🏻

The only thing more mind-blowing than this place and its history is the contempt of resource companies and the negligence of governments #Murujuga

What a fascinating study!

REGISTRATION is NOW OPEN for the 2025 ASCP conference! 😎 

Please register as soon as you can, and by the 17th of November at the latest to keep your spot on the programme 🙏 

Link here: www.ascp.org.au/ascp-confere...

"If humans really were responsible for unsustainably hunting Australia’s megafauna, we’d expect to find a lot more evidence of hunting or butchering in the fossil record." 🦘

Contrasts and even contradictions, yes of course, but this is also a land of dialectical inferences of pure reason. Keep an eye-out for the spot-price on paralogisms. 🤡

You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...

Your Sunday read: "Neoplatonic Voyaging" Jonathan Egid traces the global journey of Neoplatonism across Europe, Africa, and Asia, as it was transformed by encounters with Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism and by those who engaged with it. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/neoplat...

"For since the mechanisms of nature are mechanisms down to their smallest parts, they are indestructible, since smaller machines are enfolded in greater machines into infinity" (Leibniz, 1705)

Quick note for everyone on the philosophy job market

"Although the perspective is the most heightened illusion... if we consider it as substantively notational, the so-called reality of built architecture can only come into being through a notational system" #axonometry

"Ce qui nous arrive passe par la langue et si cela peut faire peur, cela ne signifie pas qu’il n’y a rien à faire."

#WeekendListening 📻 (featuring a special shout-out to the inimitable Karri tree)

On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden

One of their best 🏅

Get over yourself, Mariana Trench, this is the Unübersehbare Kluft

At least the rats are having fun... [Attributed to Ferdinand van Kessel, The Dance of the Rats, 1681, Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 47 cm (Städel Museum, Frankfurt)]

‘Does Pico really belong to the Renaissance? Or is our whole idea of the Renaissance hopelessly flimsy, nothing but a collection of fantasies about what it means to be modern and human?’ @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Pico della Mirandola: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...