Tom Vaswani
@tomvaswani.bsky.social
Obscurant, channeling his inner Hegel. Purveyor of catchy tag-lines. Projects: the Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture series; admin of GillianRose.Org; GR Trust.
Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists progressivegeographies.com/2025/06/08/g...
Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists
While I’ve been working on my Indo-European thought project, I’ve looked at a few books from the University of Warwick’s library which came from the Gillian Rose collection. Some of the books …
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Inside the Inn at Penn, Trustees are making decisions none of us will ever have a say in. Out here, many of the workers whose research makes Penn a university are reading out their letter calling on Penn to respect their voice and let @rapup-uaw.bsky.social vote for their union
The Gillian Rose Memorial conference. London, 18-19 June. Swedenborg House. www.kingston.ac.uk/about/events...
The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025
Rosean Futures: Promise and Perdition in the Thought of Gillian Rose
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Here learning from others. Posts mostly about books, and interesting ideas. And football (both kinds). Barely survived 2016-2020. Will try again.
‘We start life so full of life, with so much in us, so much more than we can ever comprehend. Then life itself knocks it out of us, and philosophy begins.’ In the latest issue, Jenny Turner reflects on the life and work of her former teacher, Gillian Rose: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jenny Turner · What else actually is there? On Gillian Rose
Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who...
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Jenny Turner's essay on Gillian Rose is excellent. In 1995 I had the somewhat awkward task of 'reviewing' Love's Work for The New Statesman. I still don't quite follow the thinking about the sources of 'power' in her work, esp. late on; glad the early lectures are now published.
Building some critical mass on here. #mufc
Si Lloyd@smnllyd5.bsky.social · 2y agoThree posts a day for the rest of August. See where it goes
#1 in series of scholarly acknowledgements: “To my colleagues who waded through the text and offered encouragement and criticism, I offer compassion and gratitude. There can be few gestures more friendly than reading a person’s commentary on Hegel.” #Hegel does this to/for you
I wonder if Hegel will be making an appearance in the Napoleon movie … 🤔
For those in #London: Samir Gandesha will deliver The 4th Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture, Thursday, 19th October, at 6pm. "Identity Politics: Dialectics of Liberation or Paradox of Empowerment?" More details: www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/... #GillianRose #CriticalTheory
Gillian Rose, Philosopher@gillianroseorg.bsky.social · 3y agoSamir Gandesha - Identity Politics: Dialectics of Liberation or Paradox of Empowerment? The 4th Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture (2023). London, Thursday, 19th October at 6.15pm. Details >>> www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/...
