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@joberv.bsky.social

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I’d say something catchy but I’d hate it If you feel caught. Philosophy. Autism. Tourette’s. Ethics. Bohr. Physics. Disability. Language. Writing. And so forth.

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JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Nov 21

Let me try to think of something uplifting to say:

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 12d

If we, as interpersonal objects, are socially constructed through and through, then whatever we construct, science for example, is socially constructed as well.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 13d

I’m not a fan of common sense, but isn’t that just common sense?

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 14d

A publication I'm proud to have contributed to. On the relation of Tourette's to neurodiversity. And therefore on neurodiversity as such. It covers ground I also cover in my book. You can only claim diversity when you actually listen to diversity.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Can the Neurodiversity Movement Make Space for Tourette's? Dialoguing Lived Experiences and Theory

journals.sagepub.com

Reposted by JoB

Gert-Jan Vanaken @gertjanvanaken.bsky.social · Sep 13

"Can the #Neurodiversity Movement make space for #Tourette's?"

Excited to share our new Open Access paper in neurodiversityjrnl.bsky.social !

shorturl.at/K9U9p

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JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Feb 3

They have read the literature on minority well. They just apply it to the majority.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Jan 21

January 20th 2025, the day that doomscrolling was shortened to scrolling.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Dec 16

We had 80 years of economic growth in which to reach 0.7% of GDP spent on helping those we exploited. We didn’t.

We have had a single decade to increase military spending to go over the 2% mark to protect our privilege. Yes, we can!

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Dec 13

More justice. Less weapons.

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JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Dec 13

War is the continuation of an unjust peace by other means.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Dec 13

Still waiting to be discovered. I appear to be too well hidden.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Nov 22

Some times are for collective action. Some for collective inaction.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Nov 21

On the one hand, the world is going to hell. On the other, we have Ana Lua Caiano to listen to.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Nov 21

Let me try to think of something uplifting to say:

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Nov 18

In a little over 5 years it will be the 30’s again.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · May 27

@sandervdc.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · May 27

Prefaces of books I probably will never write.

Installment B: Being Bo(h)rn

Best phrase: "Two brother’s wonder at the straight lines thought by somebody with a back so crooked."

open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...

Being Bo(h)rn

Preface B

open.substack.com

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JoB @joberv.bsky.social · May 12

Prefaces of books I probably will not write.

Installment A: an autistic history of philosophy.

Best phrase: “They clearly never met me with my mother”.

open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...

An Autistic History of Philosophy

Preface A

open.substack.com

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JoB @joberv.bsky.social · May 8

The word "reward" has been the least rewarding word in our present culture. Hooked on rewards, we become oblivious to our environment. Reward isn't just reductive, it reduces experience to nought.

Luckily @sandervdc.bsky.social & I take reward down.

thereisnoreward.substack.com/p/the-reward...

The reward of there being no reward

An opening dialogue to our Substack

thereisnoreward.substack.com

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · May 6

Truth is the weapon of authoritarianism. The currency of democracy is trust.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Jan 18

Human beings are just a naturally occurring vortex that maximally dissipates energy of the Sun into heat. We're just overdoing it these last centuries & should chill for a while.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Jan 17

Maybe the Big Freeze is coming, but let us anyway enjoy our couple of millions of years under this Sun.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Jan 15

Continental philosophers dismiss French philosophy because it is too scientific, whilst analytic philosophers dismiss French philosophy because is it too scientific.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Oct 20

We humans are so proud we'd rather extinguish ourselves than give any chance to the climate to extinguish us.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Oct 19

We have a word for all this: unsustainable. The actions of the West are those of someone who is hooked. In our case, we're addicted to our privilege.

JoB @joberv.bsky.social · Oct 12

AI doomers are right then, but for the wrong reasons. Luckily, we don't have to debate them but just agree to limit power as consumed by AI companies. Debating them wastes too much mental energy on their natural stupidity.