Tim Flanagan
@timflanagan.bsky.social
Lecturer in Humanities (διεντέρευμα)
Murdoch University
📖 "Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances"
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-66398-8
https://philpeople.org/profiles/tim-flanagan
Murdoch University
📖 "Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances"
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-66398-8
https://philpeople.org/profiles/tim-flanagan
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Tim Flanagan
@timflanagan.bsky.social
· Jun 30
“A Most Thrilling Geometry” (Predicative Space in Proust) | 16 | The R
Working out from the role of place names in Proust, this essay considers the sense in which certain encounters with language signal an intrinsic relation to
doi.org
My chapter from a recent collection
Still thinking of last night's sunset
February 10, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Still thinking of last night's sunset
"...mon imagination fleurit parfois aux côtés de la biodiversité et de la bibliodiversité." 🌿 📚
« S’engager infatigablement dans l’amour est le début de toute lutte contre le fascisme », par Louise Browaeys
Le festival Effractions consacré à la littérature contemporaine se déroulera du 18 au 22 février, entre autres à la Gaîté Lyrique. A cette occasion, l’écrivaine Louise Browaeys nous a fait parvenir ce...
www.nouvelobs.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
"...mon imagination fleurit parfois aux côtés de la biodiversité et de la bibliodiversité." 🌿 📚
Every semester, when checking previously stable URLs for assigned readings, I suspect the etymology of 'permalink' to be utterly spurious
February 3, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Every semester, when checking previously stable URLs for assigned readings, I suspect the etymology of 'permalink' to be utterly spurious
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🔎 Cryptographes professionnels comme amateurs butent dans le déchiffrage de cet ouvrage de 234 pages. Daté, par carbone 14, du début du XVe siècle, il est couvert d'illustrations qui constituent les seuls indices d'interprétation du texte à l'alphabet inconnu ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/IEH
January 31, 2026 at 7:00 AM
🔎 Cryptographes professionnels comme amateurs butent dans le déchiffrage de cet ouvrage de 234 pages. Daté, par carbone 14, du début du XVe siècle, il est couvert d'illustrations qui constituent les seuls indices d'interprétation du texte à l'alphabet inconnu ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/IEH
"Roughsey gave us the licence to see what our minds had never been trained to visualise" 💯
As a kid I was always mesmerised by this book - great to come across this brief piece on its author/illustrator.
As a kid I was always mesmerised by this book - great to come across this brief piece on its author/illustrator.
With The Rainbow Serpent, Dick Roughsey shared the spirit of our country. His work is a gift to us all | Alexis Wright
Miles Franklin-winner Alexis Wright pays tribute to the first book that visualised this powerful ancestral being from an Indigenous imagination
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:30 AM
"Roughsey gave us the licence to see what our minds had never been trained to visualise" 💯
As a kid I was always mesmerised by this book - great to come across this brief piece on its author/illustrator.
As a kid I was always mesmerised by this book - great to come across this brief piece on its author/illustrator.
"a programme for deflating the pretensions of metaphysics"
...though seemingly one unencumbered - like the review of it here - by the very project set out on the first page (even in the opening sentence) of the Preface of the first edition of Kant's first Critique 🙈
...though seemingly one unencumbered - like the review of it here - by the very project set out on the first page (even in the opening sentence) of the Preface of the first edition of Kant's first Critique 🙈
Rethinking Metaphysics
Amie Thomasson is a leader of a programme for deflating the pretensions of metaphysics and finding something better for philosophers to do. She locates ...
ndpr.nd.edu
January 27, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"a programme for deflating the pretensions of metaphysics"
...though seemingly one unencumbered - like the review of it here - by the very project set out on the first page (even in the opening sentence) of the Preface of the first edition of Kant's first Critique 🙈
...though seemingly one unencumbered - like the review of it here - by the very project set out on the first page (even in the opening sentence) of the Preface of the first edition of Kant's first Critique 🙈
This one has been a great summer read. 🌞 ⛱️
Lucid and engaging (and somehow buoyed by the gravitas of its scholarship) - a thoroughgoing immersion in a long history, as well as some deft engagements with a range of more recent thinkers such as Luce Irigaray, Adriana Cavarero, and Brooke Holmes.
Lucid and engaging (and somehow buoyed by the gravitas of its scholarship) - a thoroughgoing immersion in a long history, as well as some deft engagements with a range of more recent thinkers such as Luce Irigaray, Adriana Cavarero, and Brooke Holmes.
January 27, 2026 at 1:31 AM
This one has been a great summer read. 🌞 ⛱️
Lucid and engaging (and somehow buoyed by the gravitas of its scholarship) - a thoroughgoing immersion in a long history, as well as some deft engagements with a range of more recent thinkers such as Luce Irigaray, Adriana Cavarero, and Brooke Holmes.
Lucid and engaging (and somehow buoyed by the gravitas of its scholarship) - a thoroughgoing immersion in a long history, as well as some deft engagements with a range of more recent thinkers such as Luce Irigaray, Adriana Cavarero, and Brooke Holmes.
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
-Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, p. 24
-Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, p. 24
January 26, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
-Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, p. 24
-Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, p. 24
(Gilles Deleuze, "The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque")
January 26, 2026 at 5:26 AM
(Gilles Deleuze, "The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque")
A searingly good piece (drawing on work by @jeremywalker.bsky.social & @desmog.com) to remind us of what the fourth estate can do when it does its job 🔥
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 AM
A searingly good piece (drawing on work by @jeremywalker.bsky.social & @desmog.com) to remind us of what the fourth estate can do when it does its job 🔥
3km in cloudless gentle late afternoon sunshine today, it was glorious 🏊♂️
January 24, 2026 at 1:23 PM
3km in cloudless gentle late afternoon sunshine today, it was glorious 🏊♂️
Fluids, for Newton, "were seen to not simply surround bodies in space, but to determine their relation to one another"
"This original terminology evolved... as the philosopher Georges Canguilhem has shown, into the ‘milieu’ - literally meaning the in between."
"This original terminology evolved... as the philosopher Georges Canguilhem has shown, into the ‘milieu’ - literally meaning the in between."
Arrows
The small drawing that adorns the title page of F. R. S. Yorke’s 1937 study, The Modern House in England, is typical for its time. It shows an aerial perspective, made in thin black lines, of a conve...
drawingmatter.org
January 24, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Fluids, for Newton, "were seen to not simply surround bodies in space, but to determine their relation to one another"
"This original terminology evolved... as the philosopher Georges Canguilhem has shown, into the ‘milieu’ - literally meaning the in between."
"This original terminology evolved... as the philosopher Georges Canguilhem has shown, into the ‘milieu’ - literally meaning the in between."
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
I sort philosophers based on how comfortable they are with being a philosopher.
The scale runs from "a believer constantly on the grind who never comes up for air to look around" to "someone whose work drips of self-doubt and existential anguish"
The scale runs from "a believer constantly on the grind who never comes up for air to look around" to "someone whose work drips of self-doubt and existential anguish"
January 23, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I sort philosophers based on how comfortable they are with being a philosopher.
The scale runs from "a believer constantly on the grind who never comes up for air to look around" to "someone whose work drips of self-doubt and existential anguish"
The scale runs from "a believer constantly on the grind who never comes up for air to look around" to "someone whose work drips of self-doubt and existential anguish"
"Our AI has turned your article about Proust’s multiple ontologies of the self into a thirty-minute meal with only six ingredients" 🤞🏼🤞🏼
@mcsweeneys.net foresees all 🤡
@mcsweeneys.net foresees all 🤡
January 22, 2026 at 2:40 PM
"Our AI has turned your article about Proust’s multiple ontologies of the self into a thirty-minute meal with only six ingredients" 🤞🏼🤞🏼
@mcsweeneys.net foresees all 🤡
@mcsweeneys.net foresees all 🤡
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
Dans La Nuit étoilée, Van Gogh avait-il représenté fidèlement la "turbulence" ? C’est ce qu’avançait une étude médiatisée dont plusieurs travaux remettent aujourd’hui en cause les résultats. Au-delà d’un simple désaccord méthodologique, cette histoire révèle une entrave au débat scientifique.
La physique cachée de Van Gogh remise en question
Une étude très médiatisée affirmait que La Nuit étoilée de Van Gogh représentait fidèlement un phénomène de turbulence. Depuis, plusieurs travaux ont remis en cause cette interprétation. Une controver...
www.radiofrance.fr
January 21, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Dans La Nuit étoilée, Van Gogh avait-il représenté fidèlement la "turbulence" ? C’est ce qu’avançait une étude médiatisée dont plusieurs travaux remettent aujourd’hui en cause les résultats. Au-delà d’un simple désaccord méthodologique, cette histoire révèle une entrave au débat scientifique.
Another day, another free-kick for the resources industry - surely, other industries must wish they had even half the support enjoyed by the resources sector 🤷🏻♂️
January 21, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Another day, another free-kick for the resources industry - surely, other industries must wish they had even half the support enjoyed by the resources sector 🤷🏻♂️
It'd be genuinely interesting, but probably disappointing, to know how the EPA understands 'Protection' (or 'Environment' - or 'Authority') 😕
January 20, 2026 at 8:14 AM
It'd be genuinely interesting, but probably disappointing, to know how the EPA understands 'Protection' (or 'Environment' - or 'Authority') 😕
Set the pace on your 2026 reading!
"This book addresses aesthetics from a process philosophy perspective to highlight how even the perception of fixed objects, such as painting and drawing, depends on the intertwining and layering of a range of processes."
#ProcessPhilosophy
"This book addresses aesthetics from a process philosophy perspective to highlight how even the perception of fixed objects, such as painting and drawing, depends on the intertwining and layering of a range of processes."
#ProcessPhilosophy
Visualising an Aesthetics of Process
This book rephrases questions in aesthetics, which often involve perduring objects, in terms of durational differences
link.springer.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Set the pace on your 2026 reading!
"This book addresses aesthetics from a process philosophy perspective to highlight how even the perception of fixed objects, such as painting and drawing, depends on the intertwining and layering of a range of processes."
#ProcessPhilosophy
"This book addresses aesthetics from a process philosophy perspective to highlight how even the perception of fixed objects, such as painting and drawing, depends on the intertwining and layering of a range of processes."
#ProcessPhilosophy
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
I decided to finally cave and follow my university’s directive to teach students how to use AI ethically. But when I tried it, I found out that AI doesn’t even let you use it ethically:
December 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I decided to finally cave and follow my university’s directive to teach students how to use AI ethically. But when I tried it, I found out that AI doesn’t even let you use it ethically:
I knew the stylised eagle perched atop an 80m column was regarded as the 'Chicken on a Stick'... but top marks to 'Phallus in Blunderland' 💯
Australia’s confidence in Trump’s US has evaporated. What will it take for the alliance to rupture?
The superpower still plays a critical role in the Pacific, but there will be no going back to the liberal world order even after this presidential term ends, analysts agree
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:11 AM
I knew the stylised eagle perched atop an 80m column was regarded as the 'Chicken on a Stick'... but top marks to 'Phallus in Blunderland' 💯
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
‘He becomes the painter par excellence of immanence, of the divine that is in us rather than above us. The shuttle between sacred and secular runs either way.’
Julian Bell on the 17th-century artist Georges de la Tour:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Julian Bell on the 17th-century artist Georges de la Tour:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Julian Bell · At the Musée Jacquemart-André: On Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour’s scan of the visual field is a stark, bold testing out of basic facets of experience. What is it...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
‘He becomes the painter par excellence of immanence, of the divine that is in us rather than above us. The shuttle between sacred and secular runs either way.’
Julian Bell on the 17th-century artist Georges de la Tour:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Julian Bell on the 17th-century artist Georges de la Tour:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
Early Modern Medical Imagination 16:
𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 ("𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐎𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚") 𝟏𝟔𝟕𝟑
from Athanasius Kircher, "Phonurgia Nova" (Kempten: Dreherr, 1673), Tomus II, tab. XVII, f. 303. Vilnius University Library.
#CSMBR #AtahansiusKircher
𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 ("𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐎𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚") 𝟏𝟔𝟕𝟑
from Athanasius Kircher, "Phonurgia Nova" (Kempten: Dreherr, 1673), Tomus II, tab. XVII, f. 303. Vilnius University Library.
#CSMBR #AtahansiusKircher
January 14, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Early Modern Medical Imagination 16:
𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 ("𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐎𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚") 𝟏𝟔𝟕𝟑
from Athanasius Kircher, "Phonurgia Nova" (Kempten: Dreherr, 1673), Tomus II, tab. XVII, f. 303. Vilnius University Library.
#CSMBR #AtahansiusKircher
𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 ("𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐎𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚") 𝟏𝟔𝟕𝟑
from Athanasius Kircher, "Phonurgia Nova" (Kempten: Dreherr, 1673), Tomus II, tab. XVII, f. 303. Vilnius University Library.
#CSMBR #AtahansiusKircher
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Le poète et essayiste Zéno Bianu est mort. Il avait 75 ans. Figure singulière de la poésie contemporaine, il n’a cessé de penser le poème comme un espace de liberté, de rythme et de résistance au langage figé. Il était notre invité en 2018.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1TM
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1TM
January 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Le poète et essayiste Zéno Bianu est mort. Il avait 75 ans. Figure singulière de la poésie contemporaine, il n’a cessé de penser le poème comme un espace de liberté, de rythme et de résistance au langage figé. Il était notre invité en 2018.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1TM
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1TM
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so pleased that *Romantic Empiricism* is now out in Paperback for a much more reasonable price!
*And it is slightly revised - with some important additions of reference to works that appeared in the last few years*
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
*And it is slightly revised - with some important additions of reference to works that appeared in the last few years*
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
January 13, 2026 at 11:35 PM
so pleased that *Romantic Empiricism* is now out in Paperback for a much more reasonable price!
*And it is slightly revised - with some important additions of reference to works that appeared in the last few years*
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
*And it is slightly revised - with some important additions of reference to works that appeared in the last few years*
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
"a clarion call to simple, mindful living, a recognition and embracing of natural limits... and an underlying nonreductive physicalism, founded on empirical, rational enquiry, that acknowledges unseen realities" 🤔
(via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social)
(via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social)
A Guide to Living in and with Nature | Los Angeles Review of Books
What the ancients can teach us about cultivating a sustainable world.
lareviewofbooks.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:14 PM
"a clarion call to simple, mindful living, a recognition and embracing of natural limits... and an underlying nonreductive physicalism, founded on empirical, rational enquiry, that acknowledges unseen realities" 🤔
(via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social)
(via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social)