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
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RP2.20 is out now!
- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier
- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine
- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California
- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries
- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...
www.radicalphilosophy.com
- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier
- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine
- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California
- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries
- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...
www.radicalphilosophy.com
Radical Philosophy issue 220 (Winter 2026)
Philosophical journal of the independent Left since 1972.
www.radicalphilosophy.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
RP2.20 is out now!
- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier
- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine
- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California
- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries
- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...
www.radicalphilosophy.com
- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier
- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine
- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California
- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries
- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...
www.radicalphilosophy.com
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
"As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning, I want to address a growing concern on campus: the rumor that asynchronous online classes are 'basically a scam.'"
The Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™
As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...
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February 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
"As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning, I want to address a growing concern on campus: the rumor that asynchronous online classes are 'basically a scam.'"
"To know something about the physical world, you could use maths to model it. But more radically, you could also use the physical world to open up and model mathematical ideas: balances, levers and floating objects could be treated as geometrical proofs."
#eureka what a find via @lrb.co.uk
#eureka what a find via @lrb.co.uk
Claire Hall · Maths is second best: Archimedes on the Beach
Rather than relaying complex geometrical relationships from his mind’s eye onto the page, Archimedes had been...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
"To know something about the physical world, you could use maths to model it. But more radically, you could also use the physical world to open up and model mathematical ideas: balances, levers and floating objects could be treated as geometrical proofs."
#eureka what a find via @lrb.co.uk
#eureka what a find via @lrb.co.uk
Still thinking of last night's sunset
February 10, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Still thinking of last night's sunset
electronic versions are great, but hard copies are always a treat (even if they take a while longer to arrive). 📕
Either way (or both ways!) - ask your library to get a copy!
Either way (or both ways!) - ask your library to get a copy!
February 9, 2026 at 6:18 AM
electronic versions are great, but hard copies are always a treat (even if they take a while longer to arrive). 📕
Either way (or both ways!) - ask your library to get a copy!
Either way (or both ways!) - ask your library to get a copy!
"...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
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
🔎 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 🙈
For a comprehensive (and specialist!) review, check out ⤵️
How women became poets: a gender history of Greek literature – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 AM
For a comprehensive (and specialist!) review, check out ⤵️
...and the enigmatic account of a certain "female being [φύσις θήλεια]", developed by Antiphanes' Sappho, as a "letter [ἐπιστολή]" (since "the newborns she carries around inside her are the letters of the alphabet [τά γράμματα]").
January 27, 2026 at 2:01 AM
...and the enigmatic account of a certain "female being [φύσις θήλεια]", developed by Antiphanes' Sappho, as a "letter [ἐπιστολή]" (since "the newborns she carries around inside her are the letters of the alphabet [τά γράμματα]").
...e.g. Hauser's reading of a fragment from Plutarch where Eurydice I of Macedon (Alexander the Great's grandmother!) becomes a figure in her own right, understood via the collocation "mother of words" [λόγων μήτηρ]
January 27, 2026 at 1:40 AM
...e.g. Hauser's reading of a fragment from Plutarch where Eurydice I of Macedon (Alexander the Great's grandmother!) becomes a figure in her own right, understood via the collocation "mother of words" [λόγων μήτηρ]
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 🏊♂️
... (a concept which has, in more recent times, been further reused and repurposed 😉 ♻️) ⤵️
Wahida Khandker & Tim Flanagan, On Ephemeral Structures - PhilPapers
This chapter proposes an extension of Georges Canguilhem's historical analysis toward contemporary concepts of milieu as flexible and dissipative territories, and as "adaptive landscapes" of...
philpapers.org
January 24, 2026 at 4:26 AM
... (a concept which has, in more recent times, been further reused and repurposed 😉 ♻️) ⤵️
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') 😕