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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 2d

3/3 I do enjoy this recognition! Someone is apparently reading my work and gaining something from it! Pre-publication open access version of the paper available through the University of Edinburgh website.

Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 2d

2/3 Mathias Thaler’s ‘Repetition in Action: Søren Kierkegaard and the problem of human agency in the anthropocene’ includes a citation of my book to back up the claim that a Kierkegaard has ideas and concepts which are relevant and possibly necessary to thought about politics.

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 2d

1/3 More desperate academic peacocking 😬I’m pleased to see that a semi-substantive reference to my short monograph *Kierkegaard on Politics* appears in a forthcoming paper in *Political Theory* (a real top tier journal). Yes it is rather vulgar to emphasise this status, but I am shameless!

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 2d

Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 7th November, 17:00. Hikmet Ünlü, ‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’ hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/b... via
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Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 7th November, 17:00. Hikmet Ünlü, ‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’

Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 7th November, 17:00 Hikmet Ünlü (Associate Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara) ‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Ex…

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 3d

Little girl gives a ginger cat something on a stick to lick, presumably something sweet, maybe a lollipop, and not very good for cats, but they both seem happy so that’s alright. Outside a branch of Carrefour supermarket

Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 3d

Moon over Mecidiyeköy. Can’t say my phone camera caught the moon really well, still I wanted to share some of the impression it made on me

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László Róbert Mézes @laszlorobertmezes.bsky.social · 3d

338th day of the #GeorgiaProtests.

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 3d

I’m really touched by this Peanuts cartoon focused on Snoopy. I collected some of the books as a child then lost interest, but now I think the best ones really have emotions and situations for all ages. Some aspects are maybe best appreciated later in life.

Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 4d

Strange but true, a well known philosophy journal that invited me to referee an article (OK that’s not the only strange but true thing) has a field for a fax number in the referee account section. The 90s just called, they want their clunky tech back.

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László Róbert Mézes @laszlorobertmezes.bsky.social · 4d

337th day of the #GeorgiaProtests.

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 5d

2/2 have been briefly summarised & used) in an AHCI & Scopus listed journal (*Journal of European Studies*). ‘The apophatic theme of the hidden God in Shestov’s and Derrida’s discussion on the gift’.

Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 5d

1/2 I may be plumbing the depths of an academic’s need for public self-affirmation here, but I am anyway sharing the the news that my book *Derrida on Deconstruction*) has been cited in a substantive way (that is a couple of my arguments on Derrida’s positions

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 5d

Good condition copy of *Der Prozeß* (*The Trial*) by Franz Kafka purchased from a bloke who sells books outside just by Boğaziçi University metro station. ₺200 (£3.61 at today’s exchange rate). In a handy place in my office so I can read a little bit in a spare few minutes

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 5d

Istanbul cats. The first cat is in the window of a branch of Migros supermarket chain

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 6d

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After a year of student-led protests, the cracks in Serbia’s government have turned into fissures | Srdjan Cvijić

The government of Aleksandar Vučić’s now resembles a political Ponzi scheme: borrowing legitimacy through spectacle while deferring its collapse, says Serbian political scientist Srdjan Cvijić

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 8d

My Derrida hat trick. Three books with Routledge

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 9d

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Ad featuring words of Ronald Reagan against tariffs that Trump really really doesn’t want you to see, it’s paid for by the government of Ontario & was shown on US television including Fox. Trump retaliated by increasing tariffs on Canadian goods by 10%

Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.

YouTube video by Toronto Sun

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 10d

Emily Thomas of Durham University gave her paper ‘Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, and Temporal Experience’, in large part an account of reactions to Bergson, for the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium on Friday 24th October, followed by a discussion.

Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 12d

The author and contributor copies have arrived. *Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction* (Routledge 2026, but available now, a book version of *Angelaki* 29, 1-2, 2024). Includes my brief foreword and ‘After Thought — Derrida Escaping the Deserts of Moral Law’

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 12d

Emily Thomas of Durham University (UK) will give her paper ‘Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, & Temporal Experience’ to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium on Friday 24th October at 17:00. Email barry.stocker<at>bogazici.edu.tr to be on the guest list

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 13d

Mecidiyeköy cats today

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 16d

Listening to Charles Mingus, *Pithecanthropus Erectus* (1956 Atlantic Records). Charles Mingus – bass
Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
J. R. Monterose – tenor saxophone
Mal Waldron – piano
Willie Jones – drums, tambourine

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Pithecanthropus Erectus

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 16d

I’ve just sent my responses to the copy editing for my chapter in *Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Repetition* (eds. Michaela Fišerova & Jakub Mácha). ‘Foucault’s Baroque’ (largely a reading of *The Order of Things*). Routledge are publishing it in January.

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 16d

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Listening to this Harmonia Mundi recording (2004) of Johannes Brahms' *German Requiem*. Opus 45 (1868-68) on IDAGIO

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem | Stream on IDAGIO

Listen to Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem by Sabine Devieilhe, Stéphane Degout, Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Johannes Brahms. Stream now on IDAGIO

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Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barrystocker.bsky.social · 16d

Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 24th October, 17:00. Emily Thomas, ‘Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, and Temporal Experience’ hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/b... via @hespeisbosphor

Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 24th October, 17:00. Emily Thomas, ‘Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, and Temporal Experience’

Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 24th October, 17:00 Emily Thomas (Professor of Philosophy, Durham University, UK) ‘Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, and …

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