And tonight we are enjoying being with the wonderful @petersalmon.bsky.social leading a public lecture on #Derrida #Metaphysics & why #DerridaMatters for #Philosophy. If you haven’t yet read his incredible #Derrida biography you simply must! #AnEventPerhaps #philsky #booksky @versobooks.bsky.social

Perhaps we can stop being so parochial about Starmer's trip to Washington now. It was a failure. We are in a battle against fascism. And every decision we make is judged by whether it assisted or opposed it.

#IStandWithZelenskyy 🇺🇦 Pass it on.

Genuinely sad to do this, the end of a once great newspaper. #bezos #wapo

WaPo columnist Philip Bump: bsky.app/profile/pbum...

Lower Brinsop Writers’ House is open for applications! Stay at a C15th Hall House in Herefordshire country for up to 2 months. International fellowships by invitation. Published writers, artists & musicians contact us for residency opportunities. www.whitehousebrinsop.com

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy can now be pre-ordered direct from @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

One of my favourite folk myths in the UK is 'The Days When Postage Was Cheaper'. Love how the person serving at the post office always winces as they say something like, "It's going to be £1.49, is that ok?"

My @newhumanist.bsky.social essay on the strange history of blood transfusions is online now! newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6371

At @artreview.bsky.social I am looking for new writers for opinion-led columns, expansive reviews and on-the-ground reporting to tackle social and political questions (both big and small) through the world of art and culture. Here are some highlights from our publishing over the last few months.

Just taking a moment to remember that when A J Ayer was working for the Special Operations Executive in 1941-2 he spent time in Algiers, and so may have passed an 11 year old Jacques Derrida in the street, maybe even kicked a football with him... #Ayer #Derrida

If anyone is interested, I am teaching a course on Jean Hyppolite beginning tonight 7:30 AEST

Little known picture of T. S. Eliot as an extra in the 1978 film Death on the Nile, starring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. #tseliot

My article on The Early Film Writings of Chris Marker is in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social Rush to your local bookshop or newsagents to get the second half! www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/film/ea...

Program for the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy has just dropped, and it's a beauty as ever. mscp.org.au/courses/summ...

This looks like a great funded opportunity for public philosophers

Very Freudian that, unlike other thinkers, if you disagree with some of the fundamentals of Freud you are accused of 'resisting' him. I disagree with some of the fundamentals of Hegel, but that's not 'resistance'.

A front page for the ages.

Literary worlds colliding this week. In Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky mentions The Last of the Mohicans, and in Graham Greene's The Honorary Counsel the main character keeps reading Borges short stories! Any other examples? #dostoevsky #grahamgreene

When consulting the glossary of terms in Bruno Latour’s Politics of Nature, and you get helpful explanations like “Subject: see Object” 😑

To be fair she does look like a chicken.

Do you like little books? Do you like ethics? Are you looking for the ideal stocking filler which combines both? Here's a little thing I done this year, which I think is quite good.

Thinking about how Rod Stewart sings the whole song "Maggie May" to a person who just woke up

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

Have spent the last couple of weeks reading Jorge Semprun's The Long Voyage (also translated as The Cattle Truck) and Literature or Life. Can't believe I hadn't come across his work before. Why isn't he spoken of among the greats? Or is he, but I somehow missed it...

“For Derrida, even caution requires caution.” This is one small example of how Peter Salmon tasks himself - and succeeds - in making this notoriously difficult philosopher comprehensible - even personable - to both professional and citizen readers alike. Treat yourself to a copy for the holidays…

Bluesky right now feels a little like all the Whos gathering to sing after the Grinch stole their floofloovers and jingtinglers.

Derrida Seminars: A Digital Repository of Jacques Derrida's Teaching Notes dpul.princeton.edu/derridasemin... Papers in archives, slowly being edited and translated, they are now digitising all the teaching material and making it available online. An extraordinary and extraordinarily useful project.

My forthcoming book on the social history of analytic philosophy, from Verso, is available for pre-order www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775580...

As the cover says, here is me on the bizarre history of blood transfusion...

My biography of Jacques Derrida, An Event Perhaps (Verso). All excellent bookshops etc.

Well here I am, over from the hell of X. Where are my people?