Did you know Heidegger was kind of obsessed with nuclear weapons? New article out in Gatherings has both historical and philosophical research on this weird rabbit hole I’ve been living in the last two years: academia.edu/resource/wor...

*Hannah Arendt appears on screen* “…then I have just the thing for you! It’s called ‘forgiveness,’ and it’s the redemption from the twin predicaments of the irreversibility of our actions and the unforeseeability of their consequences!”

Out now: Almost 70 years after the first German edition, Günther Anders' masterpiece ›Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen‹ is finally available in English 👇 upress.umn.edu/978151791265... Huge thanks to my brilliant colleague Chris – you did a fantastic job!

I've seen people say modern philosophy is mostly bad and others say it is mostly good, and so I bravely chart a third path: most modern philosophy is fine, I guess

Last year these chuds were boosting Ernst Junger

Atlanta people: I was lulled into a false sense of security by the fact that the storm has so far been less intense than forecast, and so my dumbass tried to walk down my back steps and immediately ate shit. Be careful out there today

I'm co-hosting a workshop on writing successful conference abstracts! We will share tips on responding to CFPs effectively and examine examples of good and bad abstracts. Register at forms.office.com/r/1HC6ZPU2ck, and please help me share widely with graduate students in philosophy!

Happy Moira Shearer's 100th birthday!

The Stanley Cavell bat signal lights up the sky

They’re calling it the “name one Carole King song that isn’t from Tapestry” challenge

Allgemeines Aufatmen www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

On a long enough timeline, all 30 rock jokes are revealed to either be references or prophecies

Monstrous fish in Suffolk! "A most true and marvelous strange wonder" (1568) described by Timothy Granger. archive.org/details/bim_...

The best cure for the morning after a department holiday party is to go to the gym. The second best, however, is to read Kant in bed.

Read this, and fuckin subscribe to Jimmy’s substack you animals substack.com/@jamescrane?...

Based on the image, what happens is a P2P file sharing platform that crashes your parents’ windows xp

This is absolutely not true, for the record, and I do not mean this as a defense of Heidegger but the record is crystal clear—he fucking HATED all the nazi pseudo-intellectuals, and even Oskar Becker (his own students and acolyte) he found intellectually beneath contempt.

the thing about online queer discourse is unless you dig into things it's hard to tell if someone is speaking from a place of nuance and decades of lived experience or whether you're reading the untested absolutes of the most 15-year-old alive

Arendt has a great, compact version of this at the end of “Truth and Politics,” which I taught for the first time in April 2020, as the Q stuff felt like it was crossing over into the mainstream by way of the anti-shutdown stuff. A very memorable teaching experience!

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt

New in the OLR Supplement: Violeta Ruiz Espigares on Elizabeth Rottenberg's For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida olrsupplement.com/2025/11/19/u...

People like the cold light of calculus until they’re left empty handed in the cold light of morning. then that good ol’ Kantian jewel that has its full worth in itself starts to look mighty purty!

Wenn du keine Hobbys hast, bist du vielleicht nicht Adorno, sondern einfach nur komisch drauf

Today in 1889, Martin Heidegger was born. Today in 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide.

Second Thursday in a row of teaching two classes, guest teaching a grad seminar, and then attending a guest lecture right after, and I feel insane. Not only bc I’m so tired but also bc I realize that secondary teachers do this much teaching day in and day out?? Fucking how?!?!

Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time

This is what I picture when some of y’all talk about Deleuze & Guattari

In the 1978 film The Candiate, where Redford plays a politician, you can see the full spectrum of tailoring language. Dark worsted suits, esp in pinstripes, call for neckwear. More casual jackets, such as tweed sport coats, can be worn with casual turtlenecks and chambray shirts.

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Ich, jedes mal beim Babysitting

Still thinking about this

nietzche would be so owned if someone considered the genealogy of his ideas and what purpose they served for him rather than just taking them at face value

I don’t love his tone but I get where he’s coming from

Georgia peaches, man…some things really do live up to the hype

Cormac McCarthy's tweed jackets. Very good taste in fabrics.

My old, enfeebled body and rapidly senescing mind are absolutely reeling from 5 days of only getting 6.5 hours of sleep and socializing every day. I was not built to survive such grueling conditions

Honestly they got our asses with this one

The philosophy experience

Rewatched Eddington again last night. Fucking masterpiece.

Sold a blazer today for 500 that I bought for 150 five years ago…I am king of business

I think this is basically right, and I don’t know anything about any of the sciences other than the stuff around the development of atomic energy, but it’s worth noting, I think, that the question of resource availability and allocation of resources to scientific research is the other key factor

TL cleanse

If you are one of those people that posts the names of random brands in your eBay listings, I hope you have a terrible week. Fucking up my eBay saved searches, who even raised you??

will stancil is talking about searle's chinese room