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Lecturer in Humanities (διεντέρευμα) Murdoch University 📖 "Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances" http://bit.ly/3Nd9qnK https://philpeople.org/profiles/tim-flanagan
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Some Sanskrit philosophers noticed that sound is transmitted through liquids, solids and air. Thus, they postulated that there must be a unitary element which pervades all the above ones and is the substrate of sound (this is aether, ākāśa).

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With both state and federal elections coming up this year, it's important to be mindful of what's been around for around 50,000 years 🫤

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An interview about my book just came out in @jacobinmag.bsky.social! Enormous thanks to peerless comrade and colleague Kristen Ghodsee for doing this interview with me! jacobin.com/2025/02/film...

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It's always 1913 at the bookshop in town

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His brief essay 'Post-scriptum sur les sociétés de contrôle' serves as a great reminder of the importance of his work for our times #modulation

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An enhanced (and even causal) role for semantics, where once syntax predominated...

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Great short piece by Dorothea Olkowski on the importance of style in philosophy (in #Deleuze)

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‘The colonising impulse appears to be universal among sedentary cultures.’ Rahmane Idrissa on the history and prehistory of colonialism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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My @aeon.co article on Mary Midgley ‘So many unmarried men’ is out now - aeon.co/essays/for-m... #philsk #philosophy

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Man, why is nobody is funneling millions of dollars into my Analog Humanities Institute.

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A pre-semester desiderata

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8 Feb 1577: b. Robert Burton, anatomiser of Melancholy #otd in Leicestershire (BM/CCO)

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No relief in sight for our "unhappy consciousness" it would seem, according to Yuk Hui 😔

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‘The medieval imagination placed the earthly close to the celestial, whether in the form of bawdy carvings on churches or grotesques cavorting on the margins of the Luttrell Psalter.’ Christopher Snow Hopkins on the ‘Assault on the Castle of Love’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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I'm just surprised it can finally be found online/at all (surely not via the intranet) 🤡

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La France célèbre le centième anniversaire de la naissance de Pierre Boulez, chef et compositeur majeur de la seconde moitié du 20e siècle. L’occasion de revisiter son œuvre en concerts et coffrets de disques, et de questionner sa postérité.

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"Je m'appelle 'Blablabla'!" 😏

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“What,” asks Singh, “if there were many vanishing points, many overlapping histories and intersecting narratives … shifting perspectives, or altered horizon lines?”

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The philosophical significance of sleep (not dreams, just the nothingess of sleep) is well attested here... as Proust had earlier shown

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My latest Substack post is about the power of art in times of crisis, the subtle tyranny of AI, and two women who have taught me why it's vital to study the past -- and to keep making and imagining, no matter what open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

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Me visiting a part of the university outside the humanities and social sciences

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Quite the character, who would play him in a biopic? 🤔

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On the use of repetition and variation in the creation of an architectural image that resembles a Roman aqueduct and whose elevation rendering on paper unfurls at 66 x 533 cm.

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From 'The Fold', Deleuze's book on Leibniz and the Baroque

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Surely this wouldn't be an issue if we all had Small Modular Reactors ☢️ 🫠 🤡

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An at once subtle yet sharp account of the role and effects of language in certain forms of experience (leaning heavily on William James).

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A formidable collection on a perennial theme 👌🏼

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This remains a fascinating research undertaking

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The lighthouse at the end of the earth, where two oceans meet. 🌊 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼🌊

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What a great selection to commemorate what would have been, to solecize Foucault's famous line, the 'Deleuzian Century'

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"C’est tout une «culture du feu» qui doit être repensée, c’est-à-dire un ensemble de gestes préventifs pour empêcher les mégafeux de se déclencher. La culture du feu est connue des peuples qui ont conservé des pratiques traditionnelles, comme les brûlis en Australie"

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She doesn't miss 🎯

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Saw this one yesterday

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Crime imitating art imitating nature #μίμησις

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La recette de David Castello-Lopes pour mieux comprendre les sentiments qui nous traversent : lire du Proust.⁠ ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/dqh

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software: use these permalinks to save you having to update your reading list each semester me: (click, copy, click, paste, click, copy, click, paste) define 'permanent'

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This one is best found on the uni's online catalogue via title- rather than author-search 🙈

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Intriguing account of συνέμπτωσις as ‘accidental similarity’, rather than ‘(formal) coincidence’, and of homonymy as a dynamic process

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A New Year's invitation from #Coleridge to become a better reader 💎

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A trifecta of 2km swims in regional WA pools to finish the year ☺️

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Reading #Kant with the help of secondary literature

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+40°C these past two days 🥵 but a weekend find of a title I didn't know by an author I did has been refreshing Stay cool, #Panofsky 😎

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