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
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My chapter from a recent collection
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"My task as a translator is to preserve the poem’s heartbeat and transport it alive across a thousand-year distance." -Shangyang Fang talks with C. Francis Fisher about translating for "Study of Sorrow" : https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/phases-of-the-quotidien-a-conversation-with-shangyang-fang/
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"My task as a translator is to preserve the poem’s heartbeat and transport it alive across a thousand-year distance." -Shangyang Fang talks with C. Francis Fisher about translating for "Study of Sorrow" : https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/phases-of-the-quotidien-a-conversation-with-shangyang-fang/
At once so subtle and so powerful
Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance
Czesław Miłosz wrote, “Language is the only homeland.” I didn’t understand that sentence when I first read it. I was too busy trying to speak correctly—in English, in Croatian, in a blend that neve…
lithub.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
At once so subtle and so powerful
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
Embarkation of Queen of Sheba, 1648, by Claude Lorrain, French Baroque artist known for ideal landscapes inspired by Roman campagna, and seaports suffused with golden light, which influenced work of Constable & Turner; died #OTD 1682.
National Gallery London
National Gallery London
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Embarkation of Queen of Sheba, 1648, by Claude Lorrain, French Baroque artist known for ideal landscapes inspired by Roman campagna, and seaports suffused with golden light, which influenced work of Constable & Turner; died #OTD 1682.
National Gallery London
National Gallery London
Great day for it 🏏
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Great day for it 🏏
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Souleymane Bachir Diagne, le philosophe qui a l’art de faire dialoguer les cultures
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, le philosophe qui a l’art de faire dialoguer les cultures
Dans son dernier ouvrage, le philosophe sénégalais, partisan d’un « universel » respectueux des civilisations non occidentales, réfléchit au traitement que le Louvre doit réserver aux œuvres d’art volées durant la colonisation.
www.nouvelobs.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, le philosophe qui a l’art de faire dialoguer les cultures
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CONFERENCE TIME is almost upon us!! Things kick off tomorrow (Nov 21) with our dedicated online day 🤖💻🖱️💾
For more info: ascp.org.au/conference
For more info: ascp.org.au/conference
ASCP Conference 2025
UniMelb 24-26 November
ascp.org.au
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
CONFERENCE TIME is almost upon us!! Things kick off tomorrow (Nov 21) with our dedicated online day 🤖💻🖱️💾
For more info: ascp.org.au/conference
For more info: ascp.org.au/conference
"Benameur is not interested in reclaiming the purity or origin of a homeland or language...
The grammar she seeks for this modern world is prescriptive but relational — built of fragments, multilingual echoes, and translations".
The grammar she seeks for this modern world is prescriptive but relational — built of fragments, multilingual echoes, and translations".
Beachcombing on The Shores of Belonging: A Review of a grammar of the world by Jeanne Benameur - Asymptote Blog
Benameur . . . writes hoping for a third space where languages might meet and reconfigure one another.
www.asymptotejournal.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
"Benameur is not interested in reclaiming the purity or origin of a homeland or language...
The grammar she seeks for this modern world is prescriptive but relational — built of fragments, multilingual echoes, and translations".
The grammar she seeks for this modern world is prescriptive but relational — built of fragments, multilingual echoes, and translations".
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
Publié en 1955, "Tristes Tropiques" est un regard lucide sur la modernité.
Celui d’un ethnologue qui, derrière la découverte de l’autre, voyait déjà la fin d’un monde.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/O7V
Celui d’un ethnologue qui, derrière la découverte de l’autre, voyait déjà la fin d’un monde.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/O7V
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Publié en 1955, "Tristes Tropiques" est un regard lucide sur la modernité.
Celui d’un ethnologue qui, derrière la découverte de l’autre, voyait déjà la fin d’un monde.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/O7V
Celui d’un ethnologue qui, derrière la découverte de l’autre, voyait déjà la fin d’un monde.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/O7V
Important work, well done!
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards
With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save its 41,000-year-old language.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Important work, well done!
Hmm, no mention of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom 🤔
#🎻
#🎻
Golden excess: art and the aesthetics of the incredible in Neronian Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Hmm, no mention of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom 🤔
#🎻
#🎻
"If we need, as Hegel suggested, to grasp our own time in thought, that includes grasping where we might think it went astray. This is why I still think it is worth tracing the malign velocities of accelerationism and its mutations." 🦉
The Corpse of Accelerationism - Notes - e-flux
Benjamin Noys reflects on accelerationism ten years after the peak of its cultural influence.
www.e-flux.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"If we need, as Hegel suggested, to grasp our own time in thought, that includes grasping where we might think it went astray. This is why I still think it is worth tracing the malign velocities of accelerationism and its mutations." 🦉
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My review of Katherine Brading and Marius Stan, Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason, Oxford University Press, 2024,
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ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/phil...
Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason
During the last quarter century, there has been an explosion of scholarship by philosophers of physics and, especially, historians of philosophy on Isaa...
ndpr.nd.edu
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
My review of Katherine Brading and Marius Stan, Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason, Oxford University Press, 2024,
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/phil...
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/phil...
On the importance of Deleuze's 'genetic formalism' for philosophical aesthetics 🎨
ndpr.nd.edu
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
On the importance of Deleuze's 'genetic formalism' for philosophical aesthetics 🎨
Process as method
The Architect of Impossible Physics
More than once, when describing the processes involved in creating these drawings, my listener has responded with two words in particular: loading and channelling. I thought I would and should elabora...
drawingmatter.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Process as method
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According to Sanskrit philosophers, children don't become proficient language users through individual words, but through sentences. Śālikanātha says that they have to extract the meaning of individual words through their presence or absence in the sentences they hear.
#SanskritPhilosophy
#SanskritPhilosophy
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
According to Sanskrit philosophers, children don't become proficient language users through individual words, but through sentences. Śālikanātha says that they have to extract the meaning of individual words through their presence or absence in the sentences they hear.
#SanskritPhilosophy
#SanskritPhilosophy
Jobs and growth 🤡
Nationals To Resurrect Australian Whaling Industry As Part Of Exciting New Energy Policy — The Shovel
“What we need is a sensible, modern approach to energy policy and hunting whales and killing them for their oil is exactly that"
theshovel.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Jobs and growth 🤡
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I had a wonderful conversation with Scott Stephens and Walled Aly on Radio Nationa's "The Minefield." Episode -
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Is the experience of beauty slipping away in an age of frictionlessness, speed and AI slop? - ABC listen
The availability of increasingly powerful generative AI tools has radically altered the creative process. Anything that we can imagine can be turned into an image, a video, a text, a song — the proces...
www.abc.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I had a wonderful conversation with Scott Stephens and Walled Aly on Radio Nationa's "The Minefield." Episode -
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
"Look, maybe it’s just me, but does anyone else find it a little sad to see the glamor of the night before contorted into commerce and alienation by these mimetic simulacra?"
I’m the Owner of This All Day Café in Nineteenth-Century Paris: Can We Stop It with the Fucking Easels?
I opened this café with the best of intentions: to provide a salon par excellence with a focus on good food and live entertainment, a third place t...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Look, maybe it’s just me, but does anyone else find it a little sad to see the glamor of the night before contorted into commerce and alienation by these mimetic simulacra?"
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Il y a 30 ans disparaissait un philosophe dont les cours ont marqué des générations d’étudiants.
🎙️ Voici 16 leçons inédites de Gilles Deleuze, extraites de plus de 400 heures de cours enregistrées par ses élèves et auditeurs entre 1979 et 1987
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yG
🎙️ Voici 16 leçons inédites de Gilles Deleuze, extraites de plus de 400 heures de cours enregistrées par ses élèves et auditeurs entre 1979 et 1987
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yG
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Il y a 30 ans disparaissait un philosophe dont les cours ont marqué des générations d’étudiants.
🎙️ Voici 16 leçons inédites de Gilles Deleuze, extraites de plus de 400 heures de cours enregistrées par ses élèves et auditeurs entre 1979 et 1987
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yG
🎙️ Voici 16 leçons inédites de Gilles Deleuze, extraites de plus de 400 heures de cours enregistrées par ses élèves et auditeurs entre 1979 et 1987
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yG
Recognition of an important project 👏
Professor Michael Wear wins inaugural Prime Minister’s prize
When a devastating marine heatwave struck Shark Bay in 2012, it wiped out vast stretches of seagrass meadows in one of the world’s most biodiverse marine environments.
www.murdoch.edu.au
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Recognition of an important project 👏
"Ce n’est guère une exagération que de dire que la chronobiologie humaine et l’astronomie lunaire ne sont, en fin de compte, que les deux principaux aspects de la plus ancienne science du monde."
C’est la Lune qui nous rend humains
1. La science et la religion ont ceci en commun : elles naissent en grande partie de notre attention portée aux cycles de la Lune.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"Ce n’est guère une exagération que de dire que la chronobiologie humaine et l’astronomie lunaire ne sont, en fin de compte, que les deux principaux aspects de la plus ancienne science du monde."
A spring stroll in the hills 🤩
November 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A spring stroll in the hills 🤩
Fascinating work, both empirically & theoretically:
"Evans thinks the Chomskyans are looking through the wrong end of the telescope, and that what defines language is its staggering diversity – the vast span of 'engineering solutions' that evolution has found to the problem of human communication"
"Evans thinks the Chomskyans are looking through the wrong end of the telescope, and that what defines language is its staggering diversity – the vast span of 'engineering solutions' that evolution has found to the problem of human communication"
Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented lang...
Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...
observer.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Fascinating work, both empirically & theoretically:
"Evans thinks the Chomskyans are looking through the wrong end of the telescope, and that what defines language is its staggering diversity – the vast span of 'engineering solutions' that evolution has found to the problem of human communication"
"Evans thinks the Chomskyans are looking through the wrong end of the telescope, and that what defines language is its staggering diversity – the vast span of 'engineering solutions' that evolution has found to the problem of human communication"