Emily Herring

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I am writing a book about Henri Bergson for Basic Books — Radiohead were right: I have no idea what you are talking about — she/her

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Instead of penalties, they should remove one player every two minutes AND add one ball every five minutes until someone scores

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AAAAANYHOO, you can preorder my biography of Henri Bergson with a 25% discount using code SUMMERSANTA hachettebookgroup.com/titles/emily... My publisher asked me to add this: "Exclusions apply. Offer ends 07/17/2024."

Herald of a Restless Worldhachettebookgroup.com The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought &#1...

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Whenever people say "future historians will have a lot to write about our current times" I always think it's bold to assume there will be a future let alone historians

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it also imagines that historians do not always have a lot to write about whatever time most people would probably be pissed at what events future historians will probably focus on vs others, what makes it into the archive vs is erased etc.

Whenever people say "future historians will have a lot to write about our current times" I always think it's bold to assume there will be a future let alone historians

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Thank you fellow Frenchs Fuck fascism!

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If you prefer your #histsci (or #philsci!) in audio form, be sure to listen to @emilyherring.bsky.social (2018-19 LHL Fellow) discuss Henri #Bergson's theories of time & comedy w/Matthew Sweet on a recent episode of Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... [8/9] #philosophy #histSTM

Free Thinking - The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy - BBC Soundsbbc.co.uk Mark Miodownik, Emily Herring, Rob Newman and Fay Dowker consider Time with Matthew Sweet.

I am trying to organise a book launch and I need to get a sense of how many people would attend. Would any of my London (or London adjacent) moots be interested in coming? It would be on release day on Oct 24!

TFW you're just chilling, vibing, hanging out, with not a care in the world, after handing the keys of the country to the far right

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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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She is worried about the rise of fascism

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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, 21/06/2024www.bbc.co.uk Mark Miodownik, Emily Herring and and Fay Dowker consider time with Matthew Sweet.

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TONIGHT at 21:00, to celebrate the summer solstice, I will be LIVE on BBC Radio 4 to talk about Bergson's philosophy of durée

She is worried about the rise of fascism

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She doesn't know Macron called a snap parliamentary election which could result in a party founded by literal n*zis taking over the country

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This Friday (June 21st) I will be LIVE on BBC Radio 4 to talk about Bergson and time!!! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

When you're in France you can put a little bit of chocolate in some bread and it's the most delicious thing you've ever tasted in your life, as a treat

She doesn't know Macron called a snap parliamentary election which could result in a party founded by literal n*zis taking over the country

5 Albums I Can't Live Without 1. In Rainbows – Radiohead 2. Renaissance – Beyoncé 3. Dolittle – Pixies 4. A Moon Shaped Pool – Radiohead 5. Fever to Tell – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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2002: kinda creepy that everything we put on the internet is there forever 2024: i wish i could read anything I wrote before 2015 3024: we call the period from 1900-2100 “the dark ages” as paper had acid in it and later they trusted their writing to something called a cloud. Very little is known.

New report from Pew finds 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later. This research underscores how critical web archiving efforts are. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

When Online Content Disappearswww.pewresearch.org A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

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This looks fantastic 📚

One of my favourite little details I found researching my book is an exchange between Einstein and French philosopher Léon Brunschvig in 1922 which provides an absolute masterclass in how to avoid a question you don't know how to/don't want to answer

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Colin Greenwood of Radiohead followed me on Twitter so now I can never delete my account

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New favorite photo of 2024 just dropped