Tim Flanagan
@timflanagan.bsky.social
Lecturer in Humanities (διεντέρευμα) Murdoch University 📖 "Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances" https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-66398-8 https://philpeople.org/profiles/tim-flanagan
Perspective view of a young woman reading a letter c. 1670, by Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch Baroque artist, pupil of Rembrandt, born #OTD 1627. He was known for experimental perspective views of interiors, with light & shadow defining architectural space and mood. ALT Mauritshuis, den Haag
"An indefinitely recursive process does not transform an externally given standard into a self-legislated law."
The Thinking Machine: Response to Yuk Hui - Notes - e-flux
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee engages with Yuk Hui’s new book Kant Machine.
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"... it’s in the conditions of breakdown that the possibility of insight arises. We don’t get new insight when things are working smoothly. We get them when things break. That’s where the possibility of change emerges."
Donna Haraway, philosopher: ‘We live in a pro-natalist, anti-child world. Babies should be rare and precious’
One of the most influential thinkers on technology and feminism, she combines vision with irony, and her writing carries a distinctly punk edge. Faced with rising authoritarianism, she urges people to...
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Telling them to "jog on" is the polite phrasing
Public's Already Very Low Opinion Of Gas Sector Probably A Good Reason For Government To Not Let Woodside Smash Scott Reef
WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT As the sands of the largely royalty-free gas landscape continue to shift, a professor from our very own South Betoota Polytechnic has today called for a line to be pu...
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My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...
Bettongs, mulgaras, woylies, boodies, and dibblers - nawww 😍
Decade of work helps remote island's native wildlife 'return to 1616'
Researchers were unafraid to get their hands "dirty" in an ambitious bid to restore WA's largest island to its pre-colonial state.
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‘In 1905, Einstein had no academic position, but somehow managed during that year to write 21 reviews for an academic journal and to publish four major scientific papers.’ @raymodraco.bsky.social on Einstein. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ray Monk · Einstein’s Miracle Year
‘Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?’ Albert Einstein’s question acknowledges the great...
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“Here’s the reality: If you, as an administrator or professor, care little about whether the education you offer is a quality product, and if you have little faith in the transformative power of that education, then these kinds of changes are going to be acceptable to you.”
Artificial Negligence
Faculty sense that AI could make old-fashioned teaching and learning much more difficult to achieve, if not obsolete.
hedgehogreview.com
Donald Horne's 'Lucky Country' thesis - in full, though in miniature 🦘
When did university leaders lose their moral compasses?
It seems having a second job when you are a vice chancellor is just fine. Says who? Vice chancellors, of course.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss en 1985 : « Je déteste les voyages, mais c’est la condition inévitable pour voir un certain nombre de choses »
Au milieu des années 1980, le grand anthropologue se confiait au « Nouvel Observateur » à propos de Freud, des Jivaros, de la culture japonaise et… de son aversion pour le voyage.
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"writing in philosophy and other humanistic disciplines could never merely serve to transmit results but is rather itself constitutive of the 'result'."
Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy
Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...
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Un écrivain écrit. Mais une fois le texte publié, que lui appartient-il encore ? Avec La Mort de l’auteur, Barthes propose de déplacer le regard : ne plus chercher l’intention première, mais écouter ce que le langage produit sous nos yeux. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/kKp
NLR 159 is out now. Featuring Anton Jäger on elite political culture, Javier Moreno Zacarés on American capitalism, an interview with Thea Riofrancos on the state of world climate politics, and much more. newleftreview.org
NLR 159, May–June 2026
NLR 159, May–June 2026. Includes articles by Tom Mertes, Jack Copley, Katie Ebner-Landy, Anton Jäger, Thea Riofrancos, Javier Moreno Zacarés, Christian Sorace, David Sneath and Régis Debray
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Always a pleasure to see and (hear!) these beauties as I arrive on campus. Clearly there's quite a lot to screech-about at breakfast time.
Bien que la carte n’existe que sur le papier, elle influence longtemps la pensée amoureuse. Les lecteurs du XVIIᵉ siècle pouvaient visualiser leurs sentiments et leurs désirs comme un véritable voyage dans ce pays imaginaire. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6VU
Far too much damage to universities, is one answer 🤷🏻♂️
Report: What The Fuck Do These Companies Even Do?
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A curious nation is wondering this week just what in the fuck these companies even do after their latest in a string of embarrassing fuck ups. In recent year...
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Australian university students paid $368 million more to study their undergraduate courses in 2024 than they would have if the Morrison government had not introduced a new pricing system. Julie Hare reports. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/30/s...
'Broken and unfair': Morrison-era policy slogging students with hundreds of millions in extra debt
'We are talking about students carrying a significant debt into their late 40s, and many will never repay it.'
crikey.com.au
Let your language be for you what the body is for lovers. It alone separates beings and unite them. - Motto of literary magazine founded by Schiller and Goethe
"Benjamin first became interested in attention as a young man through his reading of Pascal, who argued that the ills that beset the modern world could be traced to the inability of men and women to sit alone, calmly, in their rooms"
Eli Zaretsky, Forms of Attention — Sidecar
Reading Benjamin.
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For Petrarch "one absorbs the virtues of the ancients through immersion in classical texts - 'the words that sting'- then transforms one’s learning to meet the demands of the time" 🐝 🍯
What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees
It’s spring in Prague and as I write my desk is covered in pollen. Morning bees browse around my window, foraging for materials. I was recently translating some verses of Virgil, Book IV of the Geo…
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Places like this are already too rare ✍️
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“Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis…” Blaise Pascal, great French mathematician, philosopher, author of Pensées; a pioneer of mechanical calculators, laid foundation for probability theory; born #OTD 1623. Pascal studying diagram of cycloid, sculpture by Augustin Pajou 1785. Musée du Louvre
