Alan Colquhoun
@alancolquhoun.bsky.social
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Pianist, philosopher, author, ethicist, metaphysician, moralist, aesthete...🇺🇦
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NO MORE EXCUSES: Essays on Structure, Agency, and the Limits of Evasion
a.co/d/09VyxtVJ
After an absurdly long period of thinking, writing, deleting, rewriting and refusing to let things slide, my book is now available to buy on Amazon — or, as I prefer to think of it, the Jeff Bezos relief fund..!
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NO MORE EXCUSES: Essays on Structure, Agency, and the Limits of Evasion
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https://a.co/d/09VyxtVJ
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The Immortal Mrs. Inch
“have ye gat the bug?” — the vowel held, rounded, already doing what it asks.
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/the-immortal-mrs-inch?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
about 21 hours ago
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Christine Stovell
1 day ago
Well, this is just lovely and far more soothing than watching the news. Thank you,
@noswpod.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
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You
No, not the old luxuries—
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1 day ago
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On Syntax and Sense
and The Ethics of AI...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/on-syntax-and-sense?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
1 day ago
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The Philosophy of Housework
The unfinishable task...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/the-philosophy-of-housework?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
3 days ago
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To a Tulip
Weel, there ye stand—just ae, this year—
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/to-a-tulip?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
3 days ago
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What We Cannot Choose
Belief, love, and the necessity of what matters...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/what-we-cannot-choose?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
3 days ago
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The Statistical Shadow of Meaning
Following a conversation with an old friend on mindless reasoning, normativity, and the persistence of sense without understanding...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/the-statistical-shadow-of-meaning?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
5 days ago
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@corpsepilot.bsky.social
look familiar?
6 days ago
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Mislocation of Mind
On the Logical Limits of Neuroscientific Explanation...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/mislocation-of-mind?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
6 days ago
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As If, Then Is
Reification in Scientific Psychology
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/as-if-then-is?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
8 days ago
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Dr Tom Hewitt
8 days ago
Morlun
#TomTomos
#LlunYDydd
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Skinnik, wondering why the book towers are suddenly encroaching on his comfy place...
8 days ago
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Banshee
They come uncalled—
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/banshee?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
9 days ago
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Ode to a Leopard Slug
O sleek nocturnal pilgrim, silver-veined,
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/ode-to-a-leopard-slug?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
9 days ago
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Raptor
On my fence post
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/raptor?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
9 days ago
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Dr Tom Hewitt
9 days ago
Hoffnant
#TomTomos
#LlunYDydd
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Nothing Matters
Or So It May Seem Under Grief...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/nothing-matters?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
9 days ago
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From Dyad to Abstraction, or The Incoherence of Care
On Treating Two as One, Then One as Two...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/from-dyad-to-abstraction-or-the-incoherence?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
10 days ago
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No Path Was Missed
Counterfactual Imagination and the Structure of Unavoidable Loss...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/no-path-was-missed?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
10 days ago
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Beatgrrrl
11 days ago
L.A. No Kings 'Lady Liberty' ig: @that.vvitch
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Peter Stefanovic
10 days ago
This is absolutely spot on from Emily Thornberry 👏
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Byron
10 days ago
If you're comfortable building your own extensions, and you're tired of the sheer volume of shit in your YouTube feed, try this:
github.com/OhByron/YouF...
I made it to cut the shit and the noise in your YouTube feed.
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GitHub - OhByron/YouFilter
Contribute to OhByron/YouFilter development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/OhByron/YouFilter
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Impiety
10 days ago
We are Apes Humans didn’t evolve from modern apes, we ARE apes, sharing a common ancestor with chimps, bonobos, and gorillas ~6-7 million years ago. Just like you and your cousin share grandparents, humans and chimps share deep ancestral roots. Evolution isn’t linear; it’s a family tree.
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Shirley
Shirley was the first to go.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisstovell/p/shirley?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
12 days ago
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Liz Truss should be arrested for inciting hatred, harassment, alarm, distress and malicious communications
12 days ago
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Consent Without Competence
When Temporary Respite Becomes Permanent Authority...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/consent-without-competence?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
12 days ago
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Not Even This
Aureate hush at the brink—
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/not-even-this?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
13 days ago
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No Word
There are paintings, but they borrow their light
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/no-word?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
13 days ago
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Purpose before mind
Intracellular activity is not merely a sequence of events.
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/purpose-before-mind?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
13 days ago
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Breakdown
Nothing to Break...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/breakdown?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
14 days ago
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Hopelessness
On the Breakdown of Meaningful Continuation...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/hopelessness?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
14 days ago
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At the Edge of the Sayable
There are moments
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/at-the-edge-of-the-sayable?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
15 days ago
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social
The addict does not merely seek pleasure, but seeks the recurrence of a pleasure already marked out as salvific Addiction is pathology of volition (untempered desire) The substance is never the object, only the vector (Regrettably, I speak as one who knows)
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Against the Consolation of Words
Why Understanding Does Not Always Relieve...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/against-the-consolation-of-words?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
15 days ago
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Inescapably Ordinary
Love, Loss, and the Irreversibility of Meaning...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/inescapably-ordinary?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
15 days ago
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We had a silly (playful) song for nearly every object and situation - this was the easiest way for me to learn her language - now, I can barely face the world because the silliness is too poignant
15 days ago
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The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)
The contributions of Robert Trivers belong to ideas that are obvious once explained, yet eluded great minds for ages.
https://open.substack.com/pub/quillette/p/the-many-roots-of-our-suffering-reflections?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
15 days ago
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Christine Stovell
15 days ago
Rest Bay this afternoon.
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Articulation
On the Asymmetry Between What Can Be Thought and What Can Be Said...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/articulation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
15 days ago
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Friendship
Its Conceptual Structure, and the Conditions of its dissolution...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/friendship?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
15 days ago
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Mea Culpa
On Guilt Without Wrongdoing
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/mea-culpa?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
16 days ago
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Love Actually
On the Limits of Mutual Understanding...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/love-actually?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
16 days ago
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On the Irreversibility of Understanding
Or, Why You Cannot Return to Not Knowing...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/on-the-irreversibility-of-understanding?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
16 days ago
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On Verbal Incontinence
Or, What It Takes to Mean What One Says...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/on-verbal-incontinence?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
16 days ago
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A Contradiction in Care
On the Unargued Elevation of Pathology into Moral Authority...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/a-contradiction-in-care?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
16 days ago
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To What Remains
There was a time when nothing stood alone—
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/to-what-remains?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
17 days ago
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Under the Same Facts
Excuse, Rationalisation, and the Instability of Normative Inference...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/under-the-same-facts?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
17 days ago
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Measure
Already it is there.
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/measure?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
17 days ago
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The Reality of Form
On the Reality of Appearance in a Structured World...
https://open.substack.com/pub/alancolquhoun/p/the-reality-of-form?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4scp6b
18 days ago
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