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Tim Flanagan

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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

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · Jun 30

My chapter from a recent collection

“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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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 2h

Contrasts and even contradictions, yes of course, but this is also a land of dialectical inferences of pure reason.
Keep an eye-out for the spot-price on paralogisms.
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Antimony: The Overlooked Critical Mineral Powering a New US–Australia Alliance

From ammunition to energy storage, antimony’s strategic importance is a key driver of capital flows and diplomacy and putting Australian small caps

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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 1d

You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...

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Macquarie University, Sydney – 11th and 12th of December 2025

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

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Creedence Clearwater Revival - It Came Out of the Sky

YouTube video by Creedence Clearwater Revival

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 2d

Your Sunday read:
"Neoplatonic Voyaging"

Jonathan Egid traces the global journey of Neoplatonism across Europe, Africa, and Asia, as it was transformed by encounters with Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism and by those who engaged with it.
#Philosophy
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Neoplatonic Voyaging

This essay traces the global journey of Neoplatonism across Europe, Africa and Asia and how it evolved through encounters with Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. From its origins in Alexandria to its ...

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 4d

"For since the mechanisms of nature are mechanisms down to their smallest parts, they are indestructible, since smaller machines are enfolded in greater machines into infinity" (Leibniz, 1705)

Quantum mechanics trumps the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does not apply to objects on the atomic scale whose physical properties are linked...

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 6d

Quick note for everyone on the philosophy job market

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 7d

"Although the perspective is the most heightened illusion... if we consider it as substantively notational, the so-called reality of built architecture can only come into being through a notational system"

#axonometry

John Hejduk: Means, Ends

Peter Eisenman was wrong… It is architecture, even if you can’t ‘get in it.’[1] But he was also right… ‘The tradition of the architect-writer is well precedented in the history of architecture.’[2] It...

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 7d

... I don't recall as many wigs (assuming those curls aren't au naturel)

Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 9d

"Ce qui nous arrive passe par la langue et si cela peut faire peur, cela ne signifie pas qu’il n’y a rien à faire."

La guerre des mots, avec Barbara Cassin

Trump, Poutine : chacun invente sa novlangue pour supprimer les mots et avec eux, les réalités qu'ils désignent. Face à cette manipulation, la philosophe et académicienne Barbara Cassin imagine une cu...

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 10d

#WeekendListening 📻
(featuring a special shout-out to the inimitable Karri tree)

‘Without trees we are all lost’: the ancient stories of Australia’s iconic Eucalyptus - ABC listen

In his new book, Professor Stephen Hopper delves into the ancient history, biology, and cultural significance of the Australian eucalyptus tree. In addition to his approach as a botanist, Hopper honou...

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 10d

On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden

Guido Ubaldo Abbatini, Pope Alexander VII with Bernini's skull (1655-56), Art Collection of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Rome. Pope Alexander VII sits in an elaborately carved chair, carved with the Chigi coat of arms, and rests his hands on a carved skull on the desk in front of him and looks out at the viewer

A realistic, life-size marble skull with teeth missing, carved out of marble by Gian Lorenzo Bernini(1655)

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 11d

One of their best 🏅

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12d

What is the name of your least favorite child?

In what year did you abandon your dreams?

What is the maiden name of your father's mistress?

Nihilistic Password Security Questions

What is the name of your least favorite child? In what year did you abandon your dreams? What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress? At what...

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 13d

Get over yourself, Mariana Trench, this is the Unübersehbare Kluft

Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique

One may wonder why we had to wait for so long for a book like Kristi Sweet’s to be published. It is in the Second Introduction to the Critiq...

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 14d

At least the rats are having fun...

[Attributed to Ferdinand van Kessel, The Dance of the Rats, 1681, Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 47 cm (Städel Museum, Frankfurt)]

A painting of rats dancing in a circle with what's surmised to be a carved table leg behind them. Likely cut out of a larger canvas.

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 16d

neither Gegenstände nor Objekte? 😲

Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 18d

"When pious critics criticized Millet for painting peasants who were carrying an offertory like a sack of potatoes, Millet responded by saying that the weight common to the two objects was more profound than their figurative distinction."
(Gilles Deleuze) 🎨

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19d

‘Does Pico really belong to the Renaissance? Or is our whole idea of the Renaissance hopelessly flimsy, nothing but a collection of fantasies about what it means to be modern and human?’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Pico della Mirandola: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory

Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21d

"This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education."

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers

I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 25d

On this day in 1940, Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin died while attempting to flee occupying Nazi forces.

Benjamin was one of the most influential cultural theorists of the last century, and his Marxist commitments run right through his dazzling intellectual legacy.

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 26d

"It is a language that is apparently simple and accessible and that thus claims a kind of universality but that is structured, both linguistically and philosophically, around major stumbling blocks... that often make it untranslatable."

(Jean-Pierre Cléro & Sandra Laugier)

Dictionary of Untranslatables

A one-of-a-kind reference to the international vocabulary of the humanities

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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) @aussoccontiphil.bsky.social · Sep 11

Are YOU planning to throw an EVENT but need some FUNDING? Check out the ASCP Events Grant! 🤑💰

There will be two rounds of this scheme each year, with calls for EOIs going out in April and September. Successful applicants will get up to $1000!

For details: www.ascp.org.au/about-the-as...

ASCP Events

Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy

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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 26d

Now available!

Bernini`s Architectural Drawings - An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931 (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 38)

#earlymodern #baroque #architecture #drawings

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View of book covers for two-volume set of Bernini's Architectural Drawings, edited by Tod A. Marder and published by Hirmer on behalf of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. Volume 1 (visible) has ink and red chalk drawing for the crowning feature of the Baldacchino in St. Peter's.

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · Sep 20

An important project by colleagues @murdoch.edu.au
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World-first tracking shows the ocean from a turtle's point of view

GPS tracking, motion sensors and video cameras reveal where flatback turtles in Broome's Roebuck Bay feed and travel, contributing to a richer understanding of the vulnerable species.

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · Sep 20

"Everything is positioned on top of or behind something else, creating a layered density that seems to curve out towards the viewer like a convex mirror"

Clare Bucknell · On Rachel Ruysch

Ruysch was a meticulous observer of nature, an artist whose insects seem real enough to buzz out of their frames. But...

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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · Sep 16

The epigraph to Benjamin's Trauerspiel study

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