Gottesdienst heute quasi Sprachphilosophie

Highly recommended: Капитан Волконогов бежал / Captain Volkonogov escaped I Trailer I International Independents I FFMUC 2022 (Full movie also available on youtube)

Reuters: "Two children of an American Ebola patient look through a window at their father in the isolation ward at the Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany"

"Our once vividly aspirational self is re-animated when studying Spinoza. We never coincide with this self, but it is standing over us."

Angesichts der Performance von Kaiserschmarrn & Sauerbraten dürfte man sich auf der re:publica wie ein Schaulustiger bei einem Unfall gefühlt haben.

"Normal Berliner visits a New York coffee place" www.instagram.com/p/DYXYFJHNm0u/

"Here it is pretty explicit that to be ‘enlightened’ means, in part, to favor the established authority of law."

SILENCED NO MORE Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity

The "leadership" of the University of Hertfordshire has decided to close eight of the school's humanities undergraduate programs. A petition reveals, among other things, that the decision was made with no faculty input.

Yet another good text by my former colleague Lisa Herzog: "The text is not the product"

"Wir werden lernen müssen, mit dem Virus zu leben ..." Oder so ähnlich:

Sehenswert: Weltkarriere einer Lüge: Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion

A first for me: someone accusing another person of "raping the planet" for using an AI-generated image, on a social media platform.

Interesting result in literacy scores for Germany: "Older adults (aged 55 to 65) in Germany displayed lower proficiency than 25-34 year-olds in literacy, numeracy and adaptive problem solving (Figure 3)." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

"The latest data shows that more than half of adults read below a sixth-grade level, with millions struggling to complete everyday reading tasks. ... The pandemic is considered a major reason for recent declines in literacy rates, as students lost significant instructional time."

King Charles addresses United States Congress

Unterstützenswertes Projekt! Es werden viele Antworten auf die Frage rausgehauen, warum viele Kinder Leseschwierigkeiten haben. Bevor man entsprechend eilig "Lösungen" raushaut, sollte man mit Leuten reden, die Erfahrungen mit dem Thema haben:

Manon Garcia on male violence and patriachy. It's a long conversation and it has some downs between the many ups, but it's really worth listening to.

Highly recommended: Wit | English Full Movie | Drama "Vivian Bearing, a brilliant and uncompromising English professor played by Dame Emma Thompson, faces a life-altering diagnosis of terminal ovarian cancer."

Müssen Theologische Fakultäten geschlossen werden? Was bringt eine Reform des Theologiestudiums? Für @eulemagazin.de habe ich Professor Andreas Müller von der Uni Kiel interviewt, den Vorsitzenden des Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultätentages:

Back to the roots

»Wie lebendig begraben« – und keiner weiß, warum Was jetzt? – Spezial / ME/CFS

The Ethica Composition Cycle after Baruch Spinoza: Translating Thought into Sound

Bei vermuteter KI-Täuschung nun Im Zweifel für den Kläger:

Some people behave like they want to ban water because people have drowned in it.

How to start working systematically. From exploring to writing

Autoritätspersonen – ohne pädagogische Freiheit: Was eine Regierungsübernahme der AfD für Lehrkräfte bedeutet

Gratulálok!

How to start working systematically. From exploring to writing

Gewalt gegen Lehrkräfte nimmt deutlich zu www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/bund...

The Trump administration offered a Vatican envoy "a bitter lecture warning that the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants—and that the Church had better take its side" www.thefp.com/p/why-the-va...

Trump's threat to obliterate Iranian civilization cannot be forgotten. There cannot be any coming back back from such a glaring and unequivocal sign of Trump's fundamental unfitness for the presidency. @jenrubin.bsky.social and me on this: newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Vizepräsident einer Nation 🇺🇸, dessen Präsident gerade die « Zivilisation » des Irans 🇮🇷 auslöschen will & die Weltwirtschaft zerstört, will korruptem Verräter von 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 & Putin-Kollaborateur 🇷🇺 namens #Orban im Wahlkampf helfen, in dem er EU für Niedergang Ungarns beschimpft. 👇🏼

Unvollständige Illustration

Why every woman can see herself in the story of a German celebrity couple’s split Fatma Aydemir

fascinating blog on conversation and discussion, and the uses of books in early modern philosophy - with an important exploration of #Descartes #histphilo #histsci #17thcentury #books

Misguided expectations in reading: texts as arguments

Misguided expectations in reading: texts as arguments

Preparing for our workshop on reading

Some of the the last words echoing in your head before the lights finally fade...

The abstracts of our upcoming interdisciplinary workshop on Reading as a Social Practice are now available on the website: reading.fernuni-hagen.de/workshop2026/

LinkedIn presented me with a post of an "academic ghost-writer" who complains that the students she writes papers for no longer like her human writing style, they want it to seem more AI-written. Won't someone think of the real victims of AI!

Ein bisschen peinlich, auf Rezension zum eigenen Buch hinzuweisen. Aber es freut mich halt.

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

Ingeborg Bachmann über soziale Medien:

Habermas, democratic discourse, and class by Lisa Herzog (@lisamherzog.bsky.social)