Timothy Jackson
@tnwjackson.bsky.social
Chemical ecology, philosophy, music, wildlife, etc.
After an extended hiatus (including a long break from social media) I'm revivifying my blogging practice. Like everyone else (late to the party as usual), I've migrated to Substack. open.substack.com/pub/timothyj...
Towards a humanities worthy of the event
A human techné
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A couple of pages earlier: "This, then, gives rise to an intemperate technicism which is nothing other than idolatry of the machine and which, through this idolatry, by means of identification, leads to a technocratic aspiration to unconditional power......
Mediasres@medias-res.bsky.social · last yr.Is it just me or is Simondon giving off some serious Technocracy Fascism vibes here? Cincinnatus having some significant Fascism associations... finally, slowly reading thru his "On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects" (1958), and its not what I expected. @tnwjackson.bsky.social ?
Oooh, E is for exciting! New album by @wendyeyes.bsky.social’s Editrix. Teaser track is 🔥, complete with their best (I.e. gnarly as) Ribot/Sharrock homage. Get it in your ears! editrix.bandcamp.com/album/the-bi...
The Big E, by Editrix
10 track album
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"The arrogance of the particle physicist and his intensive research may be behind us (the discoverer of the positron said 'the rest is chemistry'), but we have yet to recover from that of some molecular biologists, who seem determined to try to reduce everything about the human organism....
Sadly, if transdisciplinary science and philosophy ceases to be a viable career pathway…..becoming insta-famous is probably not on the cards 😭
Stop whatever you’re doing, new Ribot just dropped: marcribot.bandcamp.com/album/map-of...
Map of a Blue City, by Marc Ribot
9 track album
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The latest episode of the wonderful ABC Kid's podcast Imagine This is about venom, and features me as well as my 3-year-old daughter. This is my second appearance on the show, and it's always a great deal of fun! www.abc.net.au/kidslisten/p...
How do snakes and spiders make venom? - ABC Kids listen
Step right up for the Tiny Tour of Toxins! Nij and the kids trek through the Aussie bush and go on an underwater adventure with venom expert Dr Timothy Jackson to explore the world of venomous animals...
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Great conversation I had yesterday with the cognitive scientist Tom Froese, about diagrammatic relationships between his "Irruption Theory", Darwin's thought, "difference-first" ontologies, and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social 's work on developmental plasticity: youtu.be/BqX4ycjv-KM?...
Discussion with Timothy Jackson - Irruption theory meets Darwinian evolution via process ontologies
YouTube video by Dr. Tom Froese - Irruption theory of life and mind
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You think all the arbitrary specifications of the universe were introduced in one dose, in the beginning, if there was a beginning, and that the variety and complication of nature has always been just as much as it is now. But I, for my part, think that the diversification, the specification, /1
latest story for @ausgeo.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy Don't try this at home! Loved delving into the fascinating world of venom and antivenom for this story. www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/scien... thanks for the insights @tnwjackson.bsky.social 🐍
Man deliberately bitten by snakes helps create new antivenom - Australian Geographic
One man’s habit of injecting himself with the venom of the world’s deadliest snakes has led to the creation of a new antivenom.
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My article in @theconversation.com today w/ @tnwjackson.bsky.social discusses progress on a new antivenom for snakebite. A topic that needs ⬆️ resources, research, & gov’t commitments, esp in India, & sub-Saharan Africa where the burden of snakebite is severe. theconversation.com/super-antibo...
‘Super antibodies’ for snake toxins: how a dangerous DIY experiment helped scientists make a new antivenom
A man spent 18 years injecting himself with venom, almost dying more than once – and now his blood is behind a new snakebite treatment.
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@andrewmurphie.bsky.social - this is from Berressem's conclusion. Very nice. I call process-relational thought both "eco-evo" and "vitalist-animist". One thing I like about Guattari, and which I am attempting to mobilise in this Machinic Pharmkoecology project, is his use of animism to explicitly...
@medias-res.bsky.social - Here's Guattari (Schizoanalytic Cartographies, p 43), apropos some of our recent exchanges on capitalism and "difference"
Ends are constituted from difference, and then feed back upon it, shaping the stabilisation/propagation/amplification of subsets of differential variation. There not only remain bases for speaking of finality, it remains necessary to do so. A difference-first ontology enables the explanation of....
Gilles Deleuze For You@deleuzeforyou.bsky.social · 2y agoThere is no longer any basis for speaking of finality: when difference has become the thing itself, there is no longer any basis for saying that the thing receives its difference from an end.
Every time I take this three string twang box with me travelling, I come up with new music. I never really “finish” pieces, that’s not the point….neither is precision. Anyway, this a moment of musicking in Mauritius. #music #mauritius
Last night in Grand Baie, Mauritius, we were treated to an amazing performance by Menwar and band. Inspired. @neuronaraka.bsky.social you will likely dig this
Everytime I take this thing travelling with me I have to learn how to play it again, and come up with some new material. Some new strings might not be a band idea either…. This is what Mauritius elicited from me today. @helendecruz.net might enjoy
For lovers of lo-fi living room madness (if such there are), live looping and improv solo @neuronaraka.bsky.social: on.soundcloud.com/j2VYWamV8QLg...
Muzak for Mackerel
A little bit of living room madness captured on the iPhone whilst taking a break from technicity.
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Looking forward to reading. As long as we remember that the cybernetic (Ashby 1956) definition of organisms as thermodynamically open but organisationally (or informationally, for Ashby) is an idealisation. Real organisms are not organisationally closed.
Adam Frank@adamfrank4.bsky.social · 2y agoFantastic paper cuts to heart of new understanding in "physics of life" about importance of organization in organisms. Organization in this sense is a different kind of idea for physics. arxiv.org/abs/2503.03950 @ricardsole.bsky.social @evanthompson.bsky.social @saraimari.bsky.social
Excellent discussion between @michaelgarfield.bsky.social and @footnotes2plato.substack.com - get it in your ears! youtu.be/eSFEYn_VZdE?...
Matt Segall on Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy (Humans On The Loop Ep. 12)
YouTube video by Michael Garfield
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@neuronaraka.bsky.social can’t recall if we talked about this one? intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/small-...
Small Medium Large, by SML
13 track album
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Never actually searched for these online before today. Y’all should probably buy them ;)
Unbeknownst to them, my wife and daughter were channeling the collective unconscious this morning, and ended up rendering this archetypal image of the katabasis of Empedocles (I rushed in and titled it right at the end)
Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...
Details : Research Fellow in Mammalian Movement Ecology and Energetics : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
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“….instead of understanding the subject as an operation rather than a structure, we come to see that it is an asymmetrical relation that constitutes the subject—an asymmetry between a present operation that always escapes itself and a structure that always belongs to the past. …
“In order for the normativity of a system of norms to be complete, it is necessary that within this very system its own destruction as a system and its possibility of translation into another system must be predicted according to a transduction order.” Gilbert Simondon, ILFI (p 375)
