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Various - Burning London: The Clash Tribute
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December 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Two aesthetics things I’ve shamefully never read and need to read soon:
Amiri Baraka, Blues People (I’ve read some Baraka, but never this book)
Susanne Langer’s stuff on music (I’ve read some Langer, and maybe even something on music, but it’s been long enough that it’s as if I never read it)
Amiri Baraka, Blues People (I’ve read some Baraka, but never this book)
Susanne Langer’s stuff on music (I’ve read some Langer, and maybe even something on music, but it’s been long enough that it’s as if I never read it)
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Two aesthetics things I’ve shamefully never read and need to read soon:
Amiri Baraka, Blues People (I’ve read some Baraka, but never this book)
Susanne Langer’s stuff on music (I’ve read some Langer, and maybe even something on music, but it’s been long enough that it’s as if I never read it)
Amiri Baraka, Blues People (I’ve read some Baraka, but never this book)
Susanne Langer’s stuff on music (I’ve read some Langer, and maybe even something on music, but it’s been long enough that it’s as if I never read it)
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I just finished reading this super interesting book. It gave me a lot to think about, and I’d love to think more about the the subsequent rise of turntables, No Wave, Noise Rock, and experimental dub. Thanks to @vijayiyer.bsky.social for the heads up on this one press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Musician as Philosopher
An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music’s ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I just finished reading this super interesting book. It gave me a lot to think about, and I’d love to think more about the the subsequent rise of turntables, No Wave, Noise Rock, and experimental dub. Thanks to @vijayiyer.bsky.social for the heads up on this one press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience, by M. Chirimuuta
‘What’s in the brain that ink may character?’ asked Warren S. McCulloch (1964) (borrowing from Shakespeare) shortly before his death. Trained in philosophy
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November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
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One of my students had been printing out the things we read for class; at the end of the semester, they cut them up, and put together a collage of the class, and gave it to me before heading out for winter break!
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
One of my students had been printing out the things we read for class; at the end of the semester, they cut them up, and put together a collage of the class, and gave it to me before heading out for winter break!
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Happy World Linguistics Day with Saussure's reflections on #apoha!
Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉
Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...
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#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay
Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...
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#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Happy World Linguistics Day with Saussure's reflections on #apoha!
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Currently (today and tomorrow all day) reading Sudarśana Sūri's commentary on Rāmānuja's Śaraṇāgatigadya with a delightful group of colleagues. ❤️
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Currently (today and tomorrow all day) reading Sudarśana Sūri's commentary on Rāmānuja's Śaraṇāgatigadya with a delightful group of colleagues. ❤️
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Starting in 15 (in JHB 418 or online)
Join us today, 3 to 5pm (Toronto) for a talk by Marcus Schmücker on ontology, self and God in Sanskrit philosophy:
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(zoom link available)
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Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Marcus Schmücker, Austrian Academy of Sciences) - Department of Philosophy
Marcus Schmücker (Austrian Academy of Sciences) does interdisciplinary work in theology and philosophy.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Starting in 15 (in JHB 418 or online)
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The claim that language is fixed (nitya) is part of a general approach by Kumārila (the world, the self, language, the Veda… all have to be considered to have always been around, unless and until the opposite is proven).
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November 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The claim that language is fixed (nitya) is part of a general approach by Kumārila (the world, the self, language, the Veda… all have to be considered to have always been around, unless and until the opposite is proven).
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#philsky #philosophy #SanskritPhilosophy
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#philsky #philosophy #SanskritPhilosophy
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This is grounded in the intrinsic validity thesis, but also in the idea that any alternative explanation would be extremely cumbersome.
How could humans agree about a language without language?
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How could humans agree about a language without language?
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November 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is grounded in the intrinsic validity thesis, but also in the idea that any alternative explanation would be extremely cumbersome.
How could humans agree about a language without language?
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How could humans agree about a language without language?
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Again, don't quote her through my summary, but someone asked whether this mobility across religious boundaries is due to the landscape itself. "Does this moral force belong to the river?" I would have guessed that the answer would have been no, but AP is braver than me.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Again, don't quote her through my summary, but someone asked whether this mobility across religious boundaries is due to the landscape itself. "Does this moral force belong to the river?" I would have guessed that the answer would have been no, but AP is braver than me.
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Currently listening to Ahona Panda's (great) talk titled "The Zamindar and the Gazi", on continuities and discontinuities in Bengal and East Bengal from 1793 to 1971.
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The Gazi and the Zamindar: Land and Language in the Bengal Delta, 1793-1905
A talk with Ahona Panda, historian of modern South Asia
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December 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Currently listening to Ahona Panda's (great) talk titled "The Zamindar and the Gazi", on continuities and discontinuities in Bengal and East Bengal from 1793 to 1971.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-gazi-a...
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Currently listening to Barry Maguire on Socialism and the collective ownership of the means of production. Can Socialism still mean something distinctive, if separated from that ownership?
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Colloquium (Barry Maguire, Edinburgh) - Department of Philosophy
Barry Maguire (Edinburgh) is a professor of moral and political philosophy.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Currently listening to Barry Maguire on Socialism and the collective ownership of the means of production. Can Socialism still mean something distinctive, if separated from that ownership?
philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloq...
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Philosophy group at Wageningen University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Position is in the Philosophy (PHI) group led by @rachelankeny.bsky.social Deadline is 12 January 2026
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#philsci #philjobs #philsky #hpbio
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#philsci #philjobs #philsky #hpbio
Assistant Professor in Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Are you seeking a challenging role in a nurturing and collegial setting that supports rigorous philosophical teaching and research as well as opportunities for productive collaborations with social an...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Sanskrit philosophy is extremely sophisticated and I am convinced that we don't need to borrow categories from Euro-American philosophy to better understand it.
More below:
elisafreschi.com/2025/12/08/a...
More below:
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A word of caution on philosophical methodology
Sanskrit philosophy is extremely sophisticated and I am convinced that we don’t need to borrow categories from Euro-American philosophy to better understand it. Parallels to Euro-American theories are...
elisafreschi.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Sanskrit philosophy is extremely sophisticated and I am convinced that we don't need to borrow categories from Euro-American philosophy to better understand it.
More below:
elisafreschi.com/2025/12/08/a...
More below:
elisafreschi.com/2025/12/08/a...
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Don't call the Pratyabhijñā school "Kashmir Śaivism, the majority of Śaivas in Kashmir were dualists!
December 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Don't call the Pratyabhijñā school "Kashmir Śaivism, the majority of Śaivas in Kashmir were dualists!
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oh i'm sure; that one in particular is a classic though. i just advanced it as a sort of metacommentary on how this kind of information doesn't seem to make it to people in charge of things
May 6, 2024 at 11:32 PM
oh i'm sure; that one in particular is a classic though. i just advanced it as a sort of metacommentary on how this kind of information doesn't seem to make it to people in charge of things
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there is a paper from 1987 that predicts this: ics.uci.edu/~corps/phase...
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May 6, 2024 at 11:21 PM
there is a paper from 1987 that predicts this: ics.uci.edu/~corps/phase...
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This is a great place to invoke James Scott's Seeing Like A State - management only cares about what they can measure, so they create more indicators that employees treat as useless. Garbage in, garbage out, wasting employees' time and making them feel oversurveiled
May 8, 2024 at 1:44 PM
This is a great place to invoke James Scott's Seeing Like A State - management only cares about what they can measure, so they create more indicators that employees treat as useless. Garbage in, garbage out, wasting employees' time and making them feel oversurveiled
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"If your expenses + reimbursements are difficult to file, that's OK, bc the ppl above you don't care if you get reimbursed. If it takes applicants 128% longer to apply, the ppl who implemented Workday don't really care.... Customer service is Workday's goal. It's just that the customer isn't you."
May 6, 2024 at 11:20 PM
"If your expenses + reimbursements are difficult to file, that's OK, bc the ppl above you don't care if you get reimbursed. If it takes applicants 128% longer to apply, the ppl who implemented Workday don't really care.... Customer service is Workday's goal. It's just that the customer isn't you."
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"Workday reveals what's important to the ppl who run Fortune 500 companies: easily and conveniently distributing busy work across large workforces. This is done with the arbitrary and perfunctory performance of work tasks [+] with the throttling of momentum by making finance and HR tasks difficult"
May 6, 2024 at 11:18 PM
"Workday reveals what's important to the ppl who run Fortune 500 companies: easily and conveniently distributing busy work across large workforces. This is done with the arbitrary and perfunctory performance of work tasks [+] with the throttling of momentum by making finance and HR tasks difficult"
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"Workday touts its ability to track emplee performance by collecting data + marking results, but it's employees who spend ⏰ inputting this data.... At each interval higher-ups pressed HR for more data, bc they wanted what they'd paid for with Workday: more work product" = 1000s more hrs of busy work
May 6, 2024 at 11:16 PM
"Workday touts its ability to track emplee performance by collecting data + marking results, but it's employees who spend ⏰ inputting this data.... At each interval higher-ups pressed HR for more data, bc they wanted what they'd paid for with Workday: more work product" = 1000s more hrs of busy work
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"Since 2006, Workday, which provides software for payroll, talent management, and expense processing, has been making a mint creating misery where painless processes could be. More than half of the Fortune 500 companies use Workday to pay, hire, onboard, and administer benefits to their employees."
The most hated workplace software on the planet
It creates mountains of busywork for everyone. So why do more than half of the companies in the Fortune 500 use it?
www.businessinsider.com
May 6, 2024 at 11:11 PM
"Since 2006, Workday, which provides software for payroll, talent management, and expense processing, has been making a mint creating misery where painless processes could be. More than half of the Fortune 500 companies use Workday to pay, hire, onboard, and administer benefits to their employees."
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I still think about this piece from last spring, which explains why the dysfunction and inefficiency are *intentional*. Plus, it’s not merely coincidental that executives for these software companies often sit on university boards.
"Since 2006, Workday, which provides software for payroll, talent management, and expense processing, has been making a mint creating misery where painless processes could be. More than half of the Fortune 500 companies use Workday to pay, hire, onboard, and administer benefits to their employees."
The most hated workplace software on the planet
It creates mountains of busywork for everyone. So why do more than half of the companies in the Fortune 500 use it?
www.businessinsider.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I still think about this piece from last spring, which explains why the dysfunction and inefficiency are *intentional*. Plus, it’s not merely coincidental that executives for these software companies often sit on university boards.
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Thanks @stephenpinfield.bsky.social for interviewing me about my book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast.
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Samuel Moore, "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons" (U Michigan Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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December 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thanks @stephenpinfield.bsky.social for interviewing me about my book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast.
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