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Obscurant, channeling his inner Hegel. Purveyor of catchy tag-lines. Projects: the Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture series @ CRMEP; admin of GillianRose.Org Just trying to make sense of things.
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submitted 183 days ago • 2 comments

Here learning from others. Posts mostly about books, and interesting ideas. And football (both kinds). Barely survived 2016-2020. Will try again.

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‘We start life so full of life, with so much in us, so much more than we can ever comprehend. Then life itself knocks it out of us, and philosophy begins.’ In the latest issue, Jenny Turner reflects on the life and work of her former teacher, Gillian Rose: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Wife: “this is not dystopia. Yet”

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What we need to ask about "racially charged" incidents is -- who keeps recharging this thing?!

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Building some critical mass on here. #mufc

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#1 in series of scholarly acknowledgements: “To my colleagues who waded through the text and offered encouragement and criticism, I offer compassion and gratitude. There can be few gestures more friendly than reading a person’s commentary on Hegel.” #Hegel does this to/for you

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I wonder if Hegel will be making an appearance in the Napoleon movie … 🤔

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For those in #London: Samir Gandesha will deliver The 4th Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture, Thursday, 19th October, at 6pm. "Identity Politics: Dialectics of Liberation or Paradox of Empowerment?" More details: www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/... #GillianRose #CriticalTheory

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