Thoughts upon reading Jacek Dukaj's monumental novel ICE:
www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2011
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Thoughts upon reading Jacek Dukaj's monumental novel ICE:
www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2011
Dear all! I'm happy to report that my book: Bergson and Affect is now available for pre-order from @edinburghup.bsky.social !
For those interested on #affect, #intensity, #embodiment, #virtuality, or in #Bergson, #philosophy, and #phenomenology in general. Check it out!
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Last Friday I successfully defended my dissertation on the French philosopher Michel Serres. You can read the entire dissertation on the university website. @masssimons.bsky.social @drchriswatkin.bsky.social @timhowles.bsky.social @lilian-kroth.bsky.social pure.eur.nl/en/publicati...
New issue, number #88, if hot off the digi-press. With writing on mathematics, religion, clarity, and revolution. The whole gamut. Dive in at: epochemagazine.org/issues/88/
#philosophy #Philsky
Screen shot of the essay with definitions of critical and uncritical fabulation highlighted
Our new article on AI and โUncritical Fabulationโ just got published in digital memory dialogues digitalmemorydialogues.com/editions/dia...
Watch Geese make their SNL debut with "Au Pays du Cocaine" and "Trinidad" www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-geese-...
A sprawling tale of two Singapores, this short documentary surveys waterways, cycles of development and the transient nature of sand โ deceptively sturdy over short timescales but, over decades, quite volatile
this looks wonderful.
Been working on a new book. It's a collection of (highly edited) pieces from my substack. Should be finished in the next month or so. Let me know what you think of the cover! #philsky #continentalphilosophy #kant #heidegger #ocean #shore
Hugely excited to welcome Jeremy Smith to @LacanInScotland next Thursday to talk about Laruelle and Lacan. The event is free and open to all. Please join us.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/en-joui-yo...
#Daseinsanalysis in Scientific Discourse: Openness, Critique, Responsibility, Connectedness
23โ24 January 2026. Online โ free of charge.
In English. From the Austrian Daseinsanalytic Institute. Organised by Karl Baier & Stephan Dietrich.
www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/01/16/d...
Nice piece!
Medical Technology Series 23:
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from Guido Guidi, "Hippocrates, De vulneribus capitis", MS Latin 6861, cc. 109v-111v, BNF, Paris.
#CSMBR #Surgery #Renaissance #Hippocrates #GuidoGuidi #Trepanation #Technology
It took five ill-fated conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre before the Vietnamese philosopher Trแบงn ฤแปฉc Thแบฃo finally broke with French philosophy. This essay traces Thแบฃoโs life and work, and how he came to be one of the first theorists of the divide between colonised and coloniser
On Philosophy - Winter 2026 Free via Zoom - Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK (except March 2nd is 30 min later, and March 9th is 3pm ET) Jan. 5 - Why Plato Matters Now - Angie Hobbs with Jon Hawkins and Peter West Jan. 12 - Indigenous Redirections in Political Thought - Yann Allard-Tremblay with Leila Ben Abdallah Jan. 19, Feb. 16, - The Philosopher and the News - Alexis Papazoglou and guests Jan. 26 - Love in Time - Fannie Bialek with Isabelle Laurenzi Feb. 2 - What is We? - Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan with Tara Emelye Needham Feb. 9 - On Loneliness - Kaitlyn Creasy with Kate Warlow-Corcoran Feb. 23 - TBC Mar. 2 - Are We Still Human? Gรผnther Anders in the Age of Automation - Christian Dries, Chris Mรผller and Elke Schwarz with Jacob Blumenfeld Mar. 9 - Philosophy in a New Era of Climate Change - Travis Holloway and Contributors Information and registration at thephilosopher1923.org/events
Announcing: On Philosophy, Winter 2026!!
All events are free, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK (except March 2nd is 30 min later, and March 9th is 3pm ET)
featuring Angie Hobbs, Yann Allard-Tremblay, Fannie Bialek, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Kaitlyn Creasy, and so many more!
#Philosophy #PhilEvents
New on the Archive:
Simons, Massimiliano (2026) What is the history of philosophy of experimentation a history of? The cases of Hugo Dingler and Gaston Bachelard. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27380/
๐งชDanger of Machine Metaphors in Science
I share a personal story of my first formal confrontation with an apparently meaningless, mechanical Universe. I go on to examine how machine metaphors influence nihilism
Article free on Substack
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#philsky #science #existentialism
Teach Diogenes, become ungovernable
Happy new year all. Issue #87 is out now! With writing on La Boรฉtie, Deleuze & Guattari, Oedipus and the Sphinx, and care and liberalism. With a video on Bergson to boot. Get in it:
epochemagazine.org/issues/87/
#Philosophy #Philsky
Top 10 of this year's most read pieces โ no.6: our post on Blemmyes, mythical headless humanoids whose eyes, nose, and mouth are embedded in their breast: publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...
(Full Top 10 here: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12...)
Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Cornel West, Susan Buck-Morss, Seyla Benhabib, Bruno Bosteels, and more will be joining us for Hegel 13/13 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social in the new year 2026! Mark your calendars: hegel1313.law.columbia.edu
Happening now! Hear from @newschoolaaup.bsky.social faculty and @aaup.org national allies fighting back against austerity atracks on The New School www.youtube.com/live/RcTxJTd...
AHRC 2026: new courses on Nietzsche, Acid Communism, Kant, Simondon/Bataille, more Bataille, a Bataille seminar, and the intersection of philosophy and magic in history. Spring lineup ahead. Past semester recordings coming soon. Enrollment begins December 15th.
ABSTRACT. Biochemists commonly ascribe functions to biomolecules and classify them accordingly, as has been noted in the recent literature on biochemical kinds. But while a lot has been written on biological and psychological functions, less has been said about biochemical functions. I consider whether a biological or a chemical understanding of function can be applied to biochemical functions, illustrating the issue with the example of vitamin B12. I argue that an adequate characterization of biochemical function cannot be provided by either a biological or a chemical understanding alone. Instead, I argue that if we accept functional attribution to biochemical molecules, then biochemical function is constituted by chemical dispositional properties that causally contribute to selected biological processes.
From the new issue:
Biochemical Functions
โ Francesca Bellazzi
Abstract in alt text or free to read here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
#philsci #philsky
Next week is our special (online) Christmas Lecture with Lawrence Blum! Come along!
'Iris Murdoch, Dorothy Emmet, and Bernard Williams: Convergences and Divergences in Counter-Traditions in 20th Century British Moral Philosophy'
17th December, 3pm - 4.30pm BST
www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/
๐งชIโve just posted my new article on Substack (free, but subscribe/like). Can we ever have a biological theory of everything? Information theory might explain our purpose (to propagate our genes). Simultaneously, an energetic vision of life has emerged.
#philsky #science
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Frank Ruda โ The Courage to Be Anxious: Heidegger's "Weg/Da" Game
Online, 12 December 2025
PRISM Talk Series - Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries on Society and Mind
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/12/11/f...
#Philosophy #Phenomenology #Heidegger
"Vallor proposes an evocative central metaphor: AI functions less like an alien cognizer than like a mirror that both reflects and distorts our epistemic and moral practices."
New in review, Jaehoon Lee reviews Shannon Vallor's The AI Mirror: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/jaehoon_lee_...
Open access prรฉcis of Rahel Jaeggi book on progress in the journal Analyse & Kritik #philsky
Friends & Colleagues: I am so excited to share my most recent episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series On Classical German Philosophy & Post-Kantian Thought. Adornoโs Aesthetic Theory, with Distinguished Prof. of German, Dr. Rolf Goebel, UAH.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjev...
#adorno