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Marcos Fanton

@tomecicuta.bsky.social

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Professor de Filosofia na UFSM/Brasil. Me interesso por um pouco de tudo: modelos e mecanismos em filosofia da ciência, opressão e injustiça estrutural em filosofia social , análise estatística e programação em R em epidemiologia e +

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 8h

2/ Our central claim: Across his system, Hegel builds an account of colonialism as racial domination, linking world history, freedom, property, and statehood. It’s grounded in the four-stages theory and what he calls the absolute right of the Idea, vindicating colonialism in the name of liberty.

A colour lithograph published as a supplement to The Graphic for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition (24 July 1886), showing the British Empire in pink and centred on Greenwich. Britannia sits enthroned above the globe, framed by banners reading Freedom, Fraternity, and Federation. Around the border, allegorical figures represent the empire’s peoples: Indigenous hunters and labourers at the margins, traders, soldiers, and settlers nearer the imperial core. Insets list trade, population, and area statistics, fusing allegory with empirical data. Animals and crops – elephants and tigers for India, kangaroos and sheep for Australia – mark each region by its resources and stage of economic life (Driver 2010).

Crane’s composition depicts a hierarchy of civilisation. Britannia embodies imperial authority, while her subjects appear as differentiated types of labour and culture. The blend of commercial data and moral imagery turns empire into a story of progress, where freedom, property, and self-government are equated with discipline and productivity. The bent “Asian porter” and Atlas labelled Human Labour expose the burden that sustains this freedom (Driver 2010).

The map’s spatial order mirrors the stadial logic of Scottish four-stages anthropology that also shapes Hegel’s philosophy of world history. Hunters, pastoralists, agriculturalists, and commercial peoples occupy successive ranks in a teleology culminating in Europe as bearer of universal freedom. The banners of Freedom and Federation vindicate colonial domination, echoing Hegel’s historical theodicy in which the “absolute right of the Idea” is realised through European expansion (Driver 2010).

Reference

Felix Driver, “In Search of the Imperial Map: Walter Crane and the Image of Empire,” History Workshop Journal 69 (2010): 146–157.

A black-and-white engraving depicting Hegel lecturing at the University of Berlin. He stands before rows of students, gesturing with one hand while holding a manuscript in the other. His face is animated, suggesting the intensity of oral exposition. The students below him sit closely packed, taking notes or gazing upward toward the lectern, where the philosopher appears framed by a dark wooden pulpit and a high window that lets in a diffuse light.

The scene evokes, amongst others, Hegel’s lectures on the Philosophy of History in the winter term of 1822–1823, when he proclaimed that Europe represents the culmination of world history. In these lectures, Hegel argued that the principle of freedom had been fully realised in modern Christian Europe and that what lay outside it was “intrinsically overcome.” “For Europeans,” he declared, “the world is round” – the globe itself already encompassed by Europe’s spiritual and political dominion.

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Instituto Sou da Paz @soudapaz.bsky.social · 1d

📺 Enquanto o mistério sobre a morte de Odete Roitiman volta para as telas, na realidade brasileira, descobrir quem cometeu um homicídio ainda é exceção, não regra.

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Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 5d

o Leonardo exatamente assim

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Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 5d

precisando de 4 ostras imediatamente agora

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

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China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

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Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 9d

@naosouarutinha.bsky.social

Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 14d

Lugones deu like

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Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 19d

cada vez mais forte na minha convicção de que verba para projeto de pesquisa deveria ser distribuída por sorteio (cumpridos determinados requisitos).

Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 20d

E a springer nature fazendo mais comercial no Instagram do que camisa insider e vinho suspeito

Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 20d

como eu me sinto lendo teorias da justiça ou filosofia do direito

Laerte @laertecoutinho.bsky.social · 20d

saiu na Folha @folha.com

Tira de Laerte, em 4 quadrinhos.
1) interior de avião, com passageiros e passageiras diversos, sentados. Texto, correspondendo a voz, diz: “Senhores e senhoras, informamos que a aeronave está em queda inexorável”.
2) O interior o avião está mais inclinado, e as pessoas se alarmam. O texto diz: “O choque com o solo está previsto para ocorrer dentro de 2 segundos”.
3) O interior do avião está claramente vertical, as pessoas em pânico. O texto diz: “Mas, devido a certos fenômenos mentais em situações de risco, a percepção desse tempo será de 4 horas”.
4) Mãos e pés se agitam no ar, objetos voam - celulares, canetas, óculos, pacotinhos - e o texto diz: “Aproveitem para comer snacks, ter ideias inovadoras e enriquecer um pouco”.

Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 20d

morto

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20d

I feel relatively unusual in being pretty sympathetic to the critiques of analytic philosophy (it's an autoethnography of the intuitions of people whose only distinguishing mark is their ancestors happened to develop machine guns first) without that making me sympathetic to other traditions at all.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21d

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData

The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit

The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.

tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

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Guillaume Noblet @gnoblet.bsky.social · 22d

And I used #ggplot2 new v4.0.0 btw, to produce the below graph with the splendid new palette.fill.discrete argument in `theme()`.

@posit.co #tidverse #rstats #dataviz

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 23d

CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health'
A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 13 October
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · Jul 25

CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.

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Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 26d

@naosouarutinha.bsky.social

Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 26d

sextou, família

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A s t o r @astordasilva.bsky.social · 27d

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flor @malajine.bsky.social · 27d

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Ja vou parar de usar o "fala mais do que o homem da cobra" pra usar, "fala mais do que ministro de peruca"

Frater Abstru @ozigurate.bsky.social · 27d

"eu conheço vc, vc vai dar aula disso aí, vc vai ficar falando mais que o homem da piruca"

- @pranichealer.bsky.social, quando eu mostrei pra ela agora os slides do curso que eu acabei de desenvolver

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Sul21 @sul21.com.br · 27d

Livro sobre Manoel Padeiro, o primeiro herói negro gaúcho, será lançado na próxima quarta (17). Manoel liderou levante contra a escravidão no estado e se tornou símbolo de resistência popular.

Livro sobre Manoel Padeiro, o primeiro herói negro gaúcho, será lançado na próxima quarta (17) - Sul 21

Manoel liderou levante contra a escravidão no estado e Livro sobre Manoel Padeiro, o primeiro herói negro gaúcho, será lançado na próxima quarta (17)

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renata zê @renata-ze.bsky.social · 27d

finalmente mulheres condenando criminosos, ninguém aguenta mais só história de mulher sofrendo. queremos mais mulheres assim, mulheres empinando moto, mulheres batendo em homem de peruca

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Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 27d

bem tom morello das ideias

Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 27d

esse ano me provando que nem sempre é perda, às vezes (muitas vezes) é livramento.

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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · Dec 13

Full post here: schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2024/12/age-...

Age and Philosophical Fame in the Early Twentieth Century

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · Sep 4

“But can’t we use the master’s tools just this once, as a treat??”

Here’s my talk about Lorde’s master’s tools, which got such a heartening reception in New York. Thanks to everyone who turned out—professors, students, poets, activists 🌱

Using and Abusing ‘The Master’s Tools’ Caleb Ward's Audre Lorde Lecture

Audre Lorde’s statement that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” stands for uncompromising vision in the fight…

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Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 28d

morrendo de rir com isso. digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:1...