Tim Flanagan

My chapter from a recent collection

Serious question: why would anyone take seriously, let alone even seek, the view of these Thought Leaders? 🐒

Wow, what a resource! 🤩

Vale, Nicholas Davey - gentle yet formidable thinker, generous man.

Enchanting!

(with echoes of τερετίσματα τὰ εἴδη from 'Posterior Analytics') 🦜

A good weekend for unfurling a sail or a banner, or both

#Nachgeschichte

End your week, and begin every other, with the reflection that prefaced the 1991 edition of George Steiner's 'After Babel'

"...both plants and film are materially defined by their particular form of mediality: a receptivity to and relation with light. Like a film screen, a plant is a form that lives by light." 🌱 🎞

“Une maison est une machine à habiter.” Le Corbusier, Swiss-French pioneer of modern architecture, born #OTD 1887. Villa Savoye à Poissy 1931

At first I thought this was just another headline about property investors

"Il y a bien une étymologie philosophique, ou bien une philologie philosophique." (Gilles Deleuze)

"Root as a direct translation from the source text; Branch as a translation supported by a bridge translation; and Driftwood as a transcreation that was inspired by the source text or that archived some aspect of the text"

An update for our age with regard to Plotinus' insight that "it is not necessary for one who is reading to be consciously aware that he is reading – indeed, it is especially then that he reads intently". 🫠

"History’s great canvas was a constant lure, yet my opinion on historical research is that it has to be done thoroughly and then almost abandoned, to let the imagination do its essential work. (Kipling described this process as lighting a great fire and then working only with its riddled embers.)" 🔥

"existence + imagination = reality" (from my forthcoming translation of Proust: A Family Affair by Laure Murat)

In a new case study blog from his forthcoming book on allegorical iconography in European #magic and #alchemical manuscripts, former Frances Yates Fellow Sergei Zotov discusses the imagery of 'Le Véritable Dragon Rouge', a #grimoire published c.1850. Learn more ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Naww 🤩

A great initiative ahead of the Grand Final 🏉🏆

L’automatisation a longtemps concerné les gestes et les savoir-faire. Pour la philosophe Anne Alombert, l’IA touche désormais des activités que l’on pensait réservées à l’intelligence humaine : écrire, analyser, décider, créer. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/YtV

13yrs ago - But still, wow.

Are YOU planning to throw an EVENT but need some FUNDING? Check out the ASCP Events Grant – now open for the SECOND time this year! 🤑💰 EOIs for this round are due by COB October 8. Please send your proposal, or any questions you might have, to secretary@ascp.org.au. www.ascp.org.au/about-the-as...

A great essay - well supported by its engagement with the inimitable 'Dictionary of Untranslatables' (edited by Barbara Cassin).

Where does the voice we know as Sappho’s come from? Emily Greenwood on Mary Barnard’s inventive translation, back in print this fall.

On Music, Memory, and Damascus "Music is one of the arts most connected to place, as it is a physical vibration in a space."... https://arablit.org/2026/09/08/on-music-memory-and-damascus/

Happy Pataphysical New Year to all who celebrate 🥳

As things would have it, I came across this 1957 edition at the second-hand bookshop today #Μοῖραι

A friend just sent me a sentence from my translation of Proust's In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, along with Moncrieff's version:

Intriguing account of an “autism poetics” in Plautine comedy - that “we recognize in Plautus’s ebulliently homophonic aesthetics… the stylistic and affective markers of autistic echolalia” 🤔

Posséder, ce n’est pas seulement avoir des biens. C’est aussi entretenir un rapport actif à ce que nous sommes capables de faire. Avec l’IA, le philosophe Frédéric Gros met en lumière le risque d’une intelligence progressivement désapprise. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/jYr

"At the center of what you do, place something mysterious and unbreakable... The old Greek sense of the word 'problem' is something placed in front of you. Because it stands there, and because you cannot destroy it or simply go through it, you are obliged to circle around it."

It's the future we've been threatened (via @mcsweeneys.net)

No surprise to read that Philippa Nikulinsky "spent decades working with scientists as a botanical illustrator" - her work is exquisite.

I remember @floridi.bsky.social give a seminar paper at Dundee twenty years ago. I'd never have thought there'd need to be a call to save the philosophy programme, but hopefully his voice helps that chorus be heard.

Best from the West 📸

Great project!

"What actually happens when we read the words on the page, look up the key terms, push against the ideas in a text, scan a bibliography, find the sources, identify a conversation, and put down our own thoughts in language?"

RP2.21 is out now! - Rebecca Comay on The 18th Brumaire - Grégoire Chamayou on data centres - Danny Hayward on Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance - Werner Bonefeld on Adorno, plus a newly translated Adorno lecture with intro by Jake Orbison And more… www.radicalphilosophy.com

(With echoes through to J.M.W Turner and A.N. Whitehead)

Diotama's 'ladder' as a model for "non-trad ways of thinking about beauty" 🤩 #🪜

The world started going to shit when governments began defunding humanities and suggesting STEM is all we need to encourage.

"We need more talk about study and less talk about 'research.' Research makes knowledge, but study makes thoughtful, free, self-aware human beings who pursue understanding." (@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social)

Why science needs the humanities more than ever www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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