Digressionsimpressions
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Philosopher who got a gig as political theorist at University of Amsterdam; also known as Ghent Zeppelin. I have a daily substack: https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/publish
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 17h
Some Uneasy Thoughts on Foucault and Machiavelli
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Some Uneasy Thoughts on Foucault and Machiavelli
Foucault introduces the art of government as a theme on 1 February 1978, which is the fourth lecture at Collège de France of the series translated as Security, Territory, and Population. After discuss...
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 17h
Some Uneasy Thoughts on Foucault and Machiavelli
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Some Uneasy Thoughts on Foucault and Machiavelli
Foucault introduces the art of government as a theme on 1 February 1978, which is the fourth lecture at Collège de France of the series translated as Security, Territory, and Population. After discuss...
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 2d
Nice post from @nescio13.bsky.social on why academic freedom is not freedom of speech.

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Against Campus ‘Debate’ — Crooked Timber
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John Howl Boo @jholbo.bsky.social · 4d
Checking that, here is Hartley (1749) using 'economical' not to mean money-saving but efficiently regular. Like, it makes craft sense that door-makers well tend to establish, by convention, a door template they tend to stick with. To save labor (not money per se). archive.org/details/obse...
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 4d
It's Friday and I am in villanova
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 5d
Yes. Charles Wolfe really hammered that home to me
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 5d
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 5d
On Satire in Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Diderot.
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On Satire in Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Diderot.
Today’s post is digressive.
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 5d
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 6d
Finally got around to publishing a (significantly revised but still recognizable) form of that lecture/ blogpost.

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Chapter 2 Academic Freedom as Freedom of Complex Association from Academic Freedom in a Plural World: Global Critical Perspectives on JSTOR
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 7d
I'm reminded of an old piece by @jacobtlevy.bsky.social which you must know. bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2016/03/safe...
Safe spaces, academic freedom, and the university as a complex association - Bleeding Heart Libertarians
This is a transcript of a guest lecture I gave to a class on the philosophy of law taught by Andrew I. Cohen– who is, surprisingly enough, a whole different...
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 7d
Yes, that piece really put the subject on the map for me. @jacobtlevy.bsky.social and I have fairly close views on these matters, although with some important differences in emphasis.
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 7d
Maybe amusing to @dailynous.com @lastpositivist.bsky.social
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 7d
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Against Campus ‘Debate’ — Crooked Timber
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7d
I had forgot that Winstanley is actually very specific that when he says "man" he means "Male and Female", which is obviously important to recall - a lot of apparently egalitarian Enlightenment philosophy flounders on that little ambiguity!
In the beginning of Time, the great Creator Reason, made the Earth to be a Common Treasury, to preserve Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Man, the lord that was to govern this Creation; for Man had Domination given to him, over the Beasts, Birds, and Fishes; but not one word was spoken in the beginning, That one branch of mankind should rule over another. And the Reason is this, Every single man, Male and Female, is a perfect Creature of himself; and the same Spirit that made the Globe, dwels in man to govern the Globe; so that the flesh of man being subject to Reason, his Maker, hath him to be his Teacher and Ruler within himself, therefore needs not run abroad after any Teacher and Ruler without him, for he needs not that any man should teach him, for the same Anoynting that ruled in the Son of man, teacheth him all things.
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 7d
Against Campus 'Debate' with shout out to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
Against Campus 'Debate'
Later in the week, I’ll be at Villanova University for a talk on The Art of Governance from Adam Smith to Michel Foucault.
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 7d
Thank you. I am sad I had to write it
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 7d
"Helen de Cruz (1978–2025): an academic and personal tribute" *Religious Studies* Published online 2025:1-4.
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Helen de Cruz (1978–2025): an academic and personal tribute
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 7d
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 7d
Against Campus 'Debate' with shout out to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
Against Campus 'Debate'
Later in the week, I’ll be at Villanova University for a talk on The Art of Governance from Adam Smith to Michel Foucault.
open.substack.com
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 9d
Analytic philosophers - this is it, this is the moment that the grounding literature actually becomes relevant to something.
Headline saying "Supporting Reform's racist policy does not make voters racist, says Rachel Reeves".
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 8d
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 8d
Machiavelli, Moderation, and Adam Smith
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Machiavelli, Moderation, and Adam Smith
Regular readers will not be surprised that I decided to check all the explicit references to Machiavelli in Smith’s oeuvre.
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