Fadia Dakka
@fadiadk.bsky.social
Rhythm scholar | Associate Professor in Philosophy and Theory of Higher Ed | CUS | Editorial board Time&Society, Ethics and Education, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education | TRC Lab Sunkhronos
Somewhere in Birmingham and often in other places.
Somewhere in Birmingham and often in other places.
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Fadia Dakka
@fadiadk.bsky.social
· May 28
"All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful"
(EB, 1949)
(EB, 1949)
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“Meeting the demands made by people of conscience across the world in the case of Gaza – suspending the sale of arms and imposing economic sanctions – remains the only way to prevent the true worst-case scenario from reaching every Palestinian village, town, and city in the West Bank”
"As Israel ostensibly redirects its weapons away from Gaza, the West Bank braces to receive them full-force.
What is the step from local ethnic cleansing to all-out genocide, when the world splits no hairs over international law?"
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
What is the step from local ethnic cleansing to all-out genocide, when the world splits no hairs over international law?"
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
The Death that Keeps on Going
How much can one village physically take? The worst-case scenario has already happened countless times in the small West Bank community of Umm al-Khair. It happened when prominent Palestinian activist...
www.versobooks.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Meeting the demands made by people of conscience across the world in the case of Gaza – suspending the sale of arms and imposing economic sanctions – remains the only way to prevent the true worst-case scenario from reaching every Palestinian village, town, and city in the West Bank”
"So now you know why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless" (RB)
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"So now you know why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless" (RB)
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Jeremy Knox's editorial about AI. An amazing piece of critique! Link in first comment.
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Jeremy Knox's editorial about AI. An amazing piece of critique! Link in first comment.
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ICYMI: TP&TN's "How to Prevent AI from Making Us Stupid"
Anastasia Berg and @alexispapazoglou.bsky.social discussed #AI and #education, language and intellectual maturity, the spectre of cognitive elitism, and resisting AI.
#philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZP...
Anastasia Berg and @alexispapazoglou.bsky.social discussed #AI and #education, language and intellectual maturity, the spectre of cognitive elitism, and resisting AI.
#philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZP...
The Philosopher & the News: How to prevent AI from making us stupid? Anastasia Berg & A. Papazoglou
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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November 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
ICYMI: TP&TN's "How to Prevent AI from Making Us Stupid"
Anastasia Berg and @alexispapazoglou.bsky.social discussed #AI and #education, language and intellectual maturity, the spectre of cognitive elitism, and resisting AI.
#philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZP...
Anastasia Berg and @alexispapazoglou.bsky.social discussed #AI and #education, language and intellectual maturity, the spectre of cognitive elitism, and resisting AI.
#philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZP...
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New publication alert! 🚨
Making translation visible in translingual doctoral research: a call to action for doctoral supervisors
By Karen Mpamhanga
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #DoctoralEducation
Making translation visible in translingual doctoral research: a call to action for doctoral supervisors
By Karen Mpamhanga
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #DoctoralEducation
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
New publication alert! 🚨
Making translation visible in translingual doctoral research: a call to action for doctoral supervisors
By Karen Mpamhanga
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #DoctoralEducation
Making translation visible in translingual doctoral research: a call to action for doctoral supervisors
By Karen Mpamhanga
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #DoctoralEducation
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A sketch of an idea to a theory of why altered states of consciousness as induced through psychedelics, meditation, and Floatation-REST have therapeutic potential for alleviating psychiatric conditions.
www.the-mind.org/the-mind/iss...
www.the-mind.org/the-mind/iss...
THE MIND
THE MIND Bulletin of Mind-Body Medicine Research is published by the Mind-Body Medicine Research Council, which has been founded by George Stefano, Ph.D., and Tobias Esch, M.D., in 2022. Find all issu...
www.the-mind.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A sketch of an idea to a theory of why altered states of consciousness as induced through psychedelics, meditation, and Floatation-REST have therapeutic potential for alleviating psychiatric conditions.
www.the-mind.org/the-mind/iss...
www.the-mind.org/the-mind/iss...
Looking forward to arriving in Trondheim for a week of writing with my colleagues and friends #BALeverhulme #NTNU
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Looking forward to arriving in Trondheim for a week of writing with my colleagues and friends #BALeverhulme #NTNU
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La risoluzione dell’Onu su Gaza non tiene conto dei palestinesi. Alta tensione tra Cina e Giappone. Ascolta la puntata di oggi del Mondo con Paola Caridi e Lorenzo Lamperti.
Il Mondo
Il podcast quotidiano di Internazionale. Tutte le mattine alle 6. 00 con Claudio Rossi Marcelli e Giulia Zoli. Abbonati a Internazionale. Il meglio dei giornali di tutto il mondo su computer, tablet e...
www.internazionale.it
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
La risoluzione dell’Onu su Gaza non tiene conto dei palestinesi. Alta tensione tra Cina e Giappone. Ascolta la puntata di oggi del Mondo con Paola Caridi e Lorenzo Lamperti.
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ICYMI: "On Breathing: Jamieson Webster in conversation with @nicasiegel.bsky.social"
On dependence and independence, mechanical and natural, personal and social freedom, and equity.
#Philosophy
Please like, subscribe, comment, and share to help us keep breathing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9L...
On dependence and independence, mechanical and natural, personal and social freedom, and equity.
#Philosophy
Please like, subscribe, comment, and share to help us keep breathing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9L...
On Breathing: Jamieson Webster in conversation with Nica Siegel
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
ICYMI: "On Breathing: Jamieson Webster in conversation with @nicasiegel.bsky.social"
On dependence and independence, mechanical and natural, personal and social freedom, and equity.
#Philosophy
Please like, subscribe, comment, and share to help us keep breathing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9L...
On dependence and independence, mechanical and natural, personal and social freedom, and equity.
#Philosophy
Please like, subscribe, comment, and share to help us keep breathing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9L...
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'Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies'
@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To reform universities, first tackle global rankings
Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
'Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies'
@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Pluribus is a dark satire of society as resonance or mimetic contagion—a critique fit for our times of pseudo-totality as manipulated seriality Theorists of sonic materialism take note!
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pluribus is a dark satire of society as resonance or mimetic contagion—a critique fit for our times of pseudo-totality as manipulated seriality Theorists of sonic materialism take note!
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Good morning, here's Kropotkin from (well, technically, *on*) the Paris Commune:
"As is always the case with great ideas, it was not a product of the conceptions of an individual philosopher. It was born of the collective intelligence; it sprang from the heart of an entire people."
"As is always the case with great ideas, it was not a product of the conceptions of an individual philosopher. It was born of the collective intelligence; it sprang from the heart of an entire people."
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Good morning, here's Kropotkin from (well, technically, *on*) the Paris Commune:
"As is always the case with great ideas, it was not a product of the conceptions of an individual philosopher. It was born of the collective intelligence; it sprang from the heart of an entire people."
"As is always the case with great ideas, it was not a product of the conceptions of an individual philosopher. It was born of the collective intelligence; it sprang from the heart of an entire people."
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The Real Reason the Last Decade of Our Life Seems to Fly By. My Psychology Today blog on our latest empirical discovery with Alice Teghil as to why time speeds up as we grow older. It is not related to autobiographical memory but to cognitve decline. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sens...
The Real Reason the Last Decade of Our Life Seems to Fly By
Our new study shows why time feels like it speeds up with age. The good news: Older adults cherish and recall their meaningful experiences more vividly than the younger do.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The Real Reason the Last Decade of Our Life Seems to Fly By. My Psychology Today blog on our latest empirical discovery with Alice Teghil as to why time speeds up as we grow older. It is not related to autobiographical memory but to cognitve decline. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sens...
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READ: "A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what our survival has cost us." mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-h...
‘I’m happy and sad to see you’: The paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide
A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing…
mondoweiss.net
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
READ: "A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what our survival has cost us." mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-h...
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The very first micro-phenomenological study on experience during Floatation-REST from my lab at @igpp.bsky.social
revealing the dynamics of how individuals enter into altered states of consciousness. Part 2 of Helena Hruby's doctoral thesis:
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
revealing the dynamics of how individuals enter into altered states of consciousness. Part 2 of Helena Hruby's doctoral thesis:
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
The micro-phenomenology of Floatation-REST
This micro-phenomenological study examines altered states of consciousness (ASC) during Floatation-REST, a sensory isolation method where individuals lie in a tank filled with Epsom salt-saturated wat...
www.researchsquare.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The very first micro-phenomenological study on experience during Floatation-REST from my lab at @igpp.bsky.social
revealing the dynamics of how individuals enter into altered states of consciousness. Part 2 of Helena Hruby's doctoral thesis:
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
revealing the dynamics of how individuals enter into altered states of consciousness. Part 2 of Helena Hruby's doctoral thesis:
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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La caduta della città di Al Fashir, in Darfur, è stata uno degli episodi più sanguinosi di due anni di guerra civile. Foto in copertina di Guy Peterson (Afp/Getty Images). Leggi il sommario del nuovo numero di Internazionale: intern.az/1OI0
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
La caduta della città di Al Fashir, in Darfur, è stata uno degli episodi più sanguinosi di due anni di guerra civile. Foto in copertina di Guy Peterson (Afp/Getty Images). Leggi il sommario del nuovo numero di Internazionale: intern.az/1OI0
Source: Wonkhe
search.app/ustov what a surprise.
search.app/ustov what a surprise.
The higher education "market" still doesn't work
Despite promises of informed choice and fair treatment, Jim Dickinson argues that England’s student-as-consumer model has failed to deliver – and urgently needs re-examination by regulators Despite pr...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Source: Wonkhe
search.app/ustov what a surprise.
search.app/ustov what a surprise.
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Read my post for the APA blog, Rules of Engagement: blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/10/r... Arguing that epistemologists can join impactful interdisciplinary projects that contribute to improving social interactions #philsky #philpsy #philosophyforeveryone #epistemicinjustice #philosophymatters
Rules of Engagement | Blog of the APA
We would be wrong in writing off epistemology as an ivory tower pursuit with no implications for our daily practices. Epistemology can help understand and address issues such as the polarization of po...
blog.apaonline.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Read my post for the APA blog, Rules of Engagement: blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/10/r... Arguing that epistemologists can join impactful interdisciplinary projects that contribute to improving social interactions #philsky #philpsy #philosophyforeveryone #epistemicinjustice #philosophymatters
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Your Sunday read:
"Marx's Ethical Vision"
Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism to reveal a deep ethical vision gounded in freedom, creativity and collective self-determination. Revolution is an effort to shape a just society.
#Philosophy #Marx
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...
"Marx's Ethical Vision"
Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism to reveal a deep ethical vision gounded in freedom, creativity and collective self-determination. Revolution is an effort to shape a just society.
#Philosophy #Marx
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...
Marx’s Ethical Vision
In this conversation, Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism. Challenging the view of Marx as a cold materialist, Wills reveals his deep ethical vision, one that is grounded in freedom, cre...
www.thephilosopher1923.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Your Sunday read:
"Marx's Ethical Vision"
Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism to reveal a deep ethical vision gounded in freedom, creativity and collective self-determination. Revolution is an effort to shape a just society.
#Philosophy #Marx
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...
"Marx's Ethical Vision"
Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism to reveal a deep ethical vision gounded in freedom, creativity and collective self-determination. Revolution is an effort to shape a just society.
#Philosophy #Marx
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...
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“The problem is that when [AI] is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
- @eric-reinhart.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- @eric-reinhart.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“The problem is that when [AI] is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
- @eric-reinhart.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- @eric-reinhart.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Why do we forget the air that we breathe in common?
What does it mean to breathe when the environment that sustains life now threatens it?
How can life flourish under toxic conditions?
#Philosophy
with Jamison Webster
Mon. Nov. 10 ~ 2pmET / 7pm UK
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
What does it mean to breathe when the environment that sustains life now threatens it?
How can life flourish under toxic conditions?
#Philosophy
with Jamison Webster
Mon. Nov. 10 ~ 2pmET / 7pm UK
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
On Breathing
www.thephilosopher1923.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Why do we forget the air that we breathe in common?
What does it mean to breathe when the environment that sustains life now threatens it?
How can life flourish under toxic conditions?
#Philosophy
with Jamison Webster
Mon. Nov. 10 ~ 2pmET / 7pm UK
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
What does it mean to breathe when the environment that sustains life now threatens it?
How can life flourish under toxic conditions?
#Philosophy
with Jamison Webster
Mon. Nov. 10 ~ 2pmET / 7pm UK
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
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Morning, lovelies 😘
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Morning, lovelies 😘
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What an article. Thank you for writing this and taking on such important and difficult lines of thought
I've got a new article on Valerie Solanas and her place in feminist history, part of the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Feminism, Artistry, Madness, and the Ghost of Valerie Solanas
Abstract. Valerie Solanas holds an unsettled place in feminist history, notorious for both her incendiary 1967 diatribe the SCUM Manifesto and her near-fat
academic.oup.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What an article. Thank you for writing this and taking on such important and difficult lines of thought