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Theology and Religion PhD candidate @ Durham
Continental Philosophy | Hermeneutics | Phenomenology

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Gut feeling he either announces he’s stepping down or that he’ll make a decision by Monday…

They’re both out, but Türkiye and Georgia have been the most exciting teams to watch during the Euros.

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You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it" to French President Emanuel Macron

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"For all their feted ‘pragmatism’, centrists are at heart absolutists of necessity, even more rigorously deterministic and unilinear in their reading of history than Stalinism at its peak." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Richard Seymour, Majority Without a Mandate — Sidecarnewleftreview.org Elections in the UK.

“The world I know is not the one I hoped it was but it was there…” music.apple.com/us/album/nor...

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Call for papers is out for a Phenomenology conference in June 2025 at Fordham University.

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[guy who is very unfamiliar with the democratic party] well, surely somebody will do something about this

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an observation: there are entire traditions of political thought, and theories of action to accompany them, that developed in periods of defeat and under conditions of sometimes total domination. these will be useful guides now.

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The Guardian’s article on my book. “Elaborate yet accessible…Future of Denial is an eloquent, forthright text about the realities of the crisis and where it’s heading.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘What if there just is no solution?’ How we are all in denial about the climate crisiswww.theguardian.com In his new book, Tad DeLay suggests there is no rosy roadmap to go forward – but there are things we can do

Romanians playing the most incredible game in recent history.

This hell we call American society. A mass shooting has taken place at a public location members of my family frequent with their children.

NGL I’m unreasonably excited for the EuroCup.

Great track.

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The Risk of the Universal | The Point Magazinethepointmag.com “I may die before my time.” The English philosopher Gillian Rose (1947-1995) opened one of her final lectures with these words; soon after, she would […]

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why does everything suck so much? what does it mean to be sane in a moment like this? and what's a libidinal economy anyways? still got a few spots left in my Brooklyn Institute course on Happiness & Capitalism! runs sundays 6/9 - 6/30, would love to see you thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

Happiness and Capitalism: Work, Wealth, and Miserythebrooklyninstitute.com “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” So observed the “father” of political economy, Adam Smith, in his classic The Wea...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨we're joined by the brlliant Rebecca Ariel Porte to tackle a much-asked question: what's the deal with the pleasure principle, and the reality principle too? we talk paradises lost, utopias, fantasies, daydreams, and more! ordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com/2131830/1515...

55: What is the Pleasure Principle? feat. Rebecca Ariel Porte - Ordinary Unhappinessordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com Abby and Patrick welcome scholar and literary critic Rebecca Ariel Porte of Dilettante Army and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to talk about the key Freudian concept of the pleasure princi...

All. 34. Counts.

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Slavoj Zizek:

sniff sniff

Looks like an interesting academic workshop, for those in this field—planning on attending.

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ISTM that a definitive differentiator among the major intellectual postures in academic theology revolve around the question of piety. And I’m strongly inclined to think there can be no sufficiently critical enterprise in this field without a kind of questioning which is thoroughly desacralizing.

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Pre-order my book about Bergson to find out about his family ties to Proust, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, why he caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway, and the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium called Eusapia Palladino Links in thread

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Maybe the yacht shouldn’t have resisted

THE ORCAS GET POLICE TENSE NOW

Saw the most incredible musicians play at Terra Blues in Greenwich Village last night—Clarence Spady Band and Noé Socha! Highlight of the trip.

In NYC for a few days—recs for a good book store welcomed!

Alright, in honor of this gem, post which A Very Short Introduction would make it into your arrest record. Here’s mine:

Seriously this needs to become a meme. I want one of him holding Foucault

But this time, a scandal of magnitudes greater than Watergate has already happened, and there were no meaningful consequences.

Remembering that time there was a massive police overreaction to protesting students and then there was an ugly DNC in Chicago and then a very accomplished but unpopular Democratic administration lost narrowly in November to a candidate with weak commitments to democratic norms oh never mind

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April 30, 1968: "University Calls in 1,000 Police to End Demonstration As Nearly 700 Are Arrested and 100 Injured; Violent Solution Follows Failure of Negotiations"

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This is a litmus test for liberalism and so many are failing with flying colors. A nonviolent protest against a brutal war violently suppressed with the help of some of the most prominent media and political figures in the country. History will not judge them harshly enough so let's start now.