The French philosopher Jacques Rancière challenges how we think about politics, art, and education. Here is my podcast interview with philosopher Dr Stuart Blaney where we discuss his ideas.

Awful news. RIP Ricky Hatton. #mcfc #mancity

We are extremely saddened to learn of news regarding the passing of boxing legend and lifelong #ManCity fan, Ricky Hatton. We send our heartfelt condolences to all of his family and friends at this difficult time. Rest in peace, Hitman. 🩵

Welcome to Manchester City Football Club, Gigi! 🇮🇹🩵

Yeah, that's a bit decent.

I’m standing for a seat on the #ucu NEC/HEC. The HEC carries a lot of power and responsibility. If you’re a member in an HE institution, please take the time to read the @ucucommons.bsky.social#ucupost about the national seat I’m standing for and the North East seat Adam Hansen is standing for. 1/4

I've written a short post on the specific way academics experience alienation at work. I also argue we must champion the inherent worth of what we do as well as its profitability. blog.matthewbarnard.phd/a-world-with... #ucu #academia

I couldn't let this thought go and now I've written a blog post on it: The LLM of the Gaps: AI, God and Death Angst, where I consider the similarities between the design argument and arguments that LLMs are intelligent blog.matthewbarnard.phd/the-llm-of-t... #ai #llm #philosophy

A sensational tribute from Wolves supporters at Molineux today for their former player, Diogo Jota. 🇵🇹💛 📸 Simon Bajkowski

Station Approach, 1962, by L.S. Lowry (1887-1976). Exchange Station, Manchester, built 1884, closed 1969, subsequently demolished. #NorthernArt

Still places available to study in September at University of Staffordshire's MA Philosophy of Nature, Information and Technology.👇

Still places available to study in September at University of Staffordshire's MA Continental Philosophy.👇

Kyren!!!

Finally got around to reading this. Andy West's unique memoir of teaching Philosophy in UK prisons. Highly recommended.

Day 1! 100 squats complete - started out in the gym with Jacqui my PT and made it fun with different types of squats. She also showed me how to stretch out my hamstrings and hips which I’ll need since there are no rest days. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/catheri...

Well...never thought of them like that before.

An Ríocht Abú! 💚💛💚💛💚💛💚 #allirelandfinal #kerrygaa www.radiokerry.ie/news/kerry-w...

New podcast on Thales' Well: Matt Barnard [@matthewbarnard.phd ] joins me to talk about freedom and what it means to exist without falling into the usual free will vs determinism trap. Lots of Kant and Heidegger talk. Listen in below or Spotify, Pockets Casts etc.

New podcast audio essay. Revisiting Alan Turing’s famous 1950 paper on thinking machines. I found surprisingly a strange, funny, and quietly haunting piece. Intelligence as performance, not essence. Even includes telepathy! #AI #TuringTest #philosophy #podcast On spotify and usual podcast places>

Oasis pretty much giving me a second free gig at Heaton Park. I can hear them indoors! Cheers lads! They sound really tight! #oasis #manchester

Just great to see everybody walking by my house to enjoy the gig in Heaton Park, Manchester. Hope they have a brilliant time. #oasis #manchester

Recreation of world's first alarm clock. Cheers Plato!

I just wanted to write a small thing about Diogo Jota from a Wolves perspective. He came to the club at the moment of our transformation from a mid-level Championship team to a decent Premier League team. He was a big part of what I will remember as a golden age. 1/5

Starting on Derrida’s lecture course, Heidegger: The Question of Being & History with the Staffs PhD crew if you want to join in here. (You probably want to read it.)

We would like to express our deepest condolences, and send our love and prayers to the family, friends, and all those at Liverpool Football Club following the tragic passing of forward Diogo Jota in a car accident. 💔

Official British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Discord!! In hopes of building a stronger postgraduate philosophy community and knowing our members better, we have created a discord channel! For debates, events and writing sessions, click the link below to join! discord.gg/MTfyPnhkpe

My conversation with Hegel biographer Terry Pinkard. We discuss Hegel's famous 'Phenomenology of Spirit.' thaleswell.podbean.com/e/on-hegels-...

A gofundme fund for Helen de Cruz's children, set up with Helen's blessing by @marcusarvan.bsky.social:

I've recommended David Edgerton's Shock of the Old, on a new use- and maintenance-based paradigm for history of technology, at least 5 times in the past two weeks. Way behind on posting podcasts, but this one from @drpatoc.bsky.social covers the book well -- must-listen then must-read!

Analytic/Continental divide officially over.

What a return! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

New doesn’t always mean better. In this short audio essay, I reflect on how old tech endures, and why that matters for understanding technology. Inspired by David Edgerton's The 'Shock of the Old.' Listen on usual podcast apps. #technology

Just spoke with literary theorist, tech philosopher Katherine Hayles whose work bridges humanities, science and technology. Discussed AI, LLMS, technosybmiosis and more! Available on Posthumanism and Technology + Thales' Well podcasts on Spotify and usual places. open.spotify.com/episode/5QWM...

Oof! Youth-5 : Experience-0 Congratulations #PSG. Fantastic win, with fantastic football. #uclfinal #championsleaguefinal #intervspsg

Really looking forward to discussing Open Socrates with @agnescallard.bsky.social at 5.30pm upstairs @blackwelloxford.bsky.social tomorrow evening (29th May). Free event - part of the Philosophy in the Bookshop series t.co/PcEg56p6qD

This is such a good piece about Man United fans and their turn towards martyrdom and suffering. Very funny too. From @manchestermill.bsky.social manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-u...

The Pixies were absolutely blistering tonight in #Manchester.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! To introduce our new series on historic political trials – from Socrates to Marine Le Pen – David explores what makes political confrontations in a court of law so fascinating and so revealing. Who wins and who loses in the great game of lawfare? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Bruce Springsteen not messing about tonight in #Manchester... "Raise your voice against this authoritarianism and let freedom ring."

Pepe Mujica, the anarchist guerilla who became president of Uruguay, has passed on. He leaves behind as good a legacy as it's possible to leave. So it goes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Going to be great for employability and Open Days. Possible career destinations with us are teacher, psychotherapist, lawyer, civil servant, journalist.....Vicar of Christ.

Issue #80 is now live! With writing on Bataille, Nabokov, Derrida, Socrates, Aristotle, Kierkegaard, Adorno, and Marx. Language, virtue, ideology, and economics. Jump in at once: epochemagazine.org/issues/80/ #Philosophy

Join us in the MA in Continental Philosophy! If you’re curious, I’m happy to share my experience in the program. #philsky

Come study posthumanism and new materialism on University of Staffordshire’s online MA in Philosophy of Nature, Information and Technology. JANUARY ENTRY: PART-TIME/SEPTEMBER ENTRY: FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME. #philosophy #technology #posthumanism #newmaterialism

Come study Continental Philosophy on the University of Staffordshire’s MA in Continental Philosophy. The MA is 100% Online. Learn about Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, , Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger and Arendt and many more. [JANUARY ENTRY: PART-TIME/SEPTEMBER ENTRY: FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME] #philosophy

Really enjoyed this great little read on the impact, role and development of Kevin De Bruyne. By @graceonfootball.com

“Gosh, no wonder nobody likes us.” Agnes Callard talks to @drpatoc.bsky.social about why philosophers have been so popular at dinner parties since Socrates.

Look forward to when this comes to fruition. Aside from the cool title "The Nerd Reich," @gilduran.com is always worth listening to.