Brice Cummings
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Brice Cummings
@abcummings.bsky.social
Peripatetic (adjunct) instructor of philosophy and history

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Here you go:
The complete works of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
...In retrospect, I recall them talking about the lingering legacy of that collapse (this would have been some years later), but as a kid I didn't have the context and my memory wouldn't be able to go back and interpret what those words had meant for years to come. Best of luck to your students.
November 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yeah, as a historian of philosophy I don't know petrology (or geology generally), but my father was an oil field mechanic, and I remember him introducing me to a few on-location geologists when I'd tag along with him during the summers. This was my first exposure to folks who'd done PhDs...
November 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yeah, that's the thing: Since 2023, I've applied to every full-time post (most not tenure-track) in my field, everywhere in the world where I can speak the languages. I can count all these posts on my fingers.
(I've applied to every reasonable post in adjacent fields, but only landed adjunct stuff.)
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Bonus thousands of snow geese
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Some of several thousand snow geese
November 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
...part of a short-lived (1690-1692) Spanish effort to missionize the Nabedache (part of the Hasinai subdivision of the Caddo confederacy) in what is today the East Texas Piney Woods
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"But I forget that I am moralising in the most interesting part of my tale, and your looks remind me to proceed." (4/4)

~ Mary Shelley, _Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus_
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic relations, [...] America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed." (3/4)
(3/4)
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind." (2/4)
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Thanks
October 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM