There are decades where nothing happens (weeks when inbox remains suspiciously empty); and there are weeks where decades happen (one day I get 10 emails all requiring immediate answers)
To access my Geneva admin profile, I have to retrieve my PIN code by an automated voice message. In French. This, and only this, is what those random listening exercises in French classes have prepared me for.
a phd
Me: "I think my new philosophical project is more fun than what I've been doing previously."
My wife Emma: "I think you're stretching the word 'fun' beyond its natural boundaries."
A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”
My response to anything over the next two weeks
Oh the vibes, the vibes…
I’m in Café Schopenhauer, editing a proposal on the Crisis of Philosophy in the 1930s. A guy next to me is reading this:
Academics telling each other how busy they are is so lame. Let’s tell each other we’re feeling indolent, or have ennui.
Barbara Day's The Velvet Philosophers (1999) dives into the history of Czecholovakian underground universities during the Socialist regime. Incredible stories and facts - from Derrida's imprisonment to the amount of leaders (e g. Havel) who studied UG so to speak... A great read!
I am happy to share my talented friend Henriikka Hannula's talk @hhenriikka.bsky.social on "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making youtu.be/QVZPBG__-Fc?...
Thank you @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social ♥️
New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework" that @hhenriikka.bsky.social gave two weeks ago in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZP....
Happy watching!
A friendly reminder: Tomorrow (30.10, 16h/17h, Central European/Finnish time), @hhenriikka.bsky.social will give the talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework" in our joint research seminar. More info and the Zoom-link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ex....
All welcome!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if an academic sets out to finally concentrate on writing for a few hours somewhere nearby loud roadworks must commence.
In a week, I’ll be referencing Dilthey, Ranke, Burckhardt, Heidegger, Troeltsch and Benjamin, all in one talk! From historical contemplation as existential consolation to history as a source of existential Angst. Do join!
That's right! There's one talk this Thursday (23.10) and one talk next Thursday (30.10, both 17h Finnish time) in our research seminar. Come and join us for both if you can!
After Marilynn Johnson's talk this Thursday, our research seminar will already continue next week (30.10) with @hhenriikka.bsky.social's online talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework". More info and the Zoom link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ex....
All welcome!
"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
JANE EYRE (film) Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga United Kingdom, 2011. "After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess at Thornfield House, an isolated and imposing residence, property of the cold and mysterious Mr Rochester. While Jane finds herself falling in love with him, she discovers he is hiding a terrible secret."
Celebrating the publication of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (1847).
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings?"
#English #Literature #film
Got the morbs "Got the morbs" is a slang phrase or euphemism used in the Victorian era. The phrase describes a person afflicted with temporary melancholy or sadness. The term was defined in James Redding Ware's 1909 book Passing English of the Victorian Era.
monday again is it
This @yalereview.bsky.social Krasznahorkai short story is a nice entry point for anyone curious about the new Nobel Laureate
yalereview.org/article/kras...
I have a lot of thoughts about Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl but even more about the discourse about the album! Why are people so worked up? Read my thoughts!
When Intimate Publics Shift: Understanding the Discourse around Taylor Swift's New Album thereluctantamericanist.com/2025/10/06/w...
Very cool to see this! Aviezer Tucker and I just spoke about Schlick's idea of non-territorial states at a conference. More generally, this political theory is also known as panarchy; see: www.routledge.com/Panarchy-Pol....
And we are working on an English translation of Schlick's text.
I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm perfectly calm.
Indifferent to tensions and shocks.
La santé mentale
We proudly present the autumn edition of PHO2, the research seminar on the philosophy of history that we run together with @cpshoulu.bsky.social. From October to January, we will have 5 talks. More information below and then also closer to the individual dates. All welcome and save the dates!
Very happy to have been part of this project. I wrote the entry on Universal History, see: philpapers.org/rec/GANUHS. Come and join us on September 30 to celebrate the publication of The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History, either online or in person!
the thrust of the idea (minus the platonic stuff) was, to me, very reminiscent of zadie smith's wonderful essay 'joy', specifically the climactic paragraph (but it is very much worth reading in full)
www.are.na/block/13912203
I cycle back and forth between theories explaining fascism, on one end are complex philosophical and sociological theories with a long historical and intellectual tail and on the other end it’s ’they’re resentful idiots that want to kill everyone different from them’
Simply miserable time trying to get into writing headspace today, so I wrote down some rules for brutally pragmatic drafting. There is space for more -- what should go on here?
Hivemind what are classic (philosophical) histories of early positivism (Comte, Mill, Mach)?
