Patrik Engisch
@pateng.bsky.social
Academic philosopher. Working on creativity, fiction, food, nature, empathy, and other fun topics. Doom metal drummer. Also into cats, sheep, gardens, cheese, wine, and pasta. 📍Fribourg🇨🇭 | Maribor 🇸🇮 http://www.patrikengisch.com
An important petition created by a natural winemaker in Slovenian, to fight against a ridiculous change in Slovenian wine law which came into force this February. If you enjoy artisanal wines from Slovenia, please have a read and sign the petition. And share widely! www.change.org/p/a-petition...
Sign the Petition
A petition to change the new wine law and protect natural wine makers in Slovenia
change.org
Resentment toward natural winemakers who break through internationally is real. Slovenia's are among the world's best — and now their conventional counterparts are coming for them. Support them by signing this petition: www.change.org/p/a-petition...
Sign the Petition
A petition to change the new wine law and protect natural wine makers in Slovenia
change.org
If Nolan's next movie is not an adaptation of Louis Aragon's Les Aventures de Télémaque, we'll know for sure his project was lacking intellectual ambition.
Two research fellowships in our Aesthetics of Knowledge project. Come work with us! sites.unica.it/aok/news/#jobs
News – The Aesthetics of Knowledge
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I watched some guy's first film yesterday and his newest film today. The first was very, very cheap and very good. The second was very, very expensive and not that good. I am sure there's some ancient Greek moral to all of this 👁️🗨️
This is very nice, highly recommended!
Josh Habgood-Coote@impractknow.bsky.social · last mo.A couple of years ago I started wondering why I was spending so much time on hobbies cosplaying obsolete jobs. This is a go at an answer: I'm in the grips of *skill nostalgia*, and the problem is to avoid it becoming reactionary. It turns out John Ruskin (??) has the answer aeon.co/essays/the-r...
A double-page interview to talk about the philosophy of natural wine in a national newspaper, that was a bit unexpected 😅
Patrik Engisch, philosophe de l'alimentation: «Le vin naturel n'est pas celui que l’on faisait historiquement» - Le Temps
Le philosophe, spécialiste de l’alimentation et de la gastronomie, consacre un livre au vin naturel, dont il est adepte. Pour lui, il s’agit d’un «projet extrêmement contemporain» qui serait «impossib...
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Going to Portugal tomorrow for a conference as a heatwave will start there, right after having been through a massive heatwave in Switzerland for over a week. Summer now just feel like a hot, sweaty Kafka novel, and it will only get worse 😵💫
My book is now out! www.routledge.com/A-Philosophy... It's about wine—but also about much more! It introduces a special kind of artifacts, naturefactual ones, which are artifactual vehicles for the appreciation of nature. Natural wine is offered as a paradigm case. 🧵
A Philosophy of Natural Wine: Nature, Artifacts, and the Space in Between
This book examines whether wine can be natural and explores what this means and why it matters. Natural wine is one of the most contested notions in contemporary food and drink culture. Its defenders ...
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this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts
Anyone teaching Scheler on ressentiment atm? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Justin Trudeau at Coachella? That’s just wrong: at a certain age, things must change
If you have to consult the Reddit thread ‘am I too old for Coachella?’, then the answer is probably ‘yes’, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
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I just read two of the big classics of Balkan literature lately, The Bridge On the Drina by Ivo Andrić and Alamut by Vladimir Bartol, and, unsurprinsingly, these might well be two of the most insightful novels to shed some light on our present times
Pre-order on SALE! Get this book, I've heard it's fun!
A Philosophy of Natural Wine: Nature, Artifacts, and the Space in Between
This book examines whether wine can be natural and explores what this means and why it matters. Natural wine is one of the most contested notions in contemporary food and drink culture. Its defenders ...
routledge.com
New paper on creativity just out in Synthese: rdcu.be/e7ZV5
Creativity, artworks, and technical artifacts
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Only took notice now of the death of Malcolm Budd. Never had the chance to meet him, but very fine philosopher. Also, he never replied to my emails, which shows his soundness of judgment.
Book incoming! www.routledge.com/A-Philosophy...
A Philosophy of Natural Wine: Nature, Artifacts, and the Space in Between
This book examines whether wine can be natural and explores what this means and why it matters. Natural wine is one of the most contested notions in contemporary food and drink culture. Its defenders ...
routledge.com
See the ski jumper Domen Prevc of Team Slovenia fly through a snow squall during a competition.
Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Snow Jump
A ski jumper flies through a flurry of snowflakes.
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I dreamed I found a 6 volume PhD thesis on Wittgenstein by ex-cyclist Richard Virenque in an obscure French academic library that also happened to serve good Italian food. The first volume was a historical contextualisation and contained only reproductions of Belle Époque ads for aperitives.
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
En Croatie, une manifestation massive contre la montée de l’extrême droite et le révisionnisme ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/jpf
Today is philosophy day. Philosophy is hard (as Gareth Evans once put it). But that doesn't mean that, thereby, today is a hard day. How strange.
Since we’re not supposed to use “Two birds, one stone” anymore, I suggest we replace it with “One raclette, two neighbors”
yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
There is probably not enough Tom Waits on your TL, so just take one minute to listen to this wonderful voice reading a beautiful poem (as Nietzsche once said,without Tom Waits life would be mistake - or something like that...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGA...
Tom Waits - Seeds On Hard Ground (Except From The Human Factor)
YouTube video by Tom Waits
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Not surprising that your public debt is out of control if you’re a country that can’t distinguish between an espresso and an Olympic swimming pool
