Charles Mathewes
@ctmathewes.bsky.social
I teach religion & ethics @ UVa
I'm mostly here to find books & articles I don't yet know about
Sometimes also interested in opinions, but not as often as many of you seem to believe
I'm mostly here to find books & articles I don't yet know about
Sometimes also interested in opinions, but not as often as many of you seem to believe
Have we reached Peak Foucault?
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Have we reached Peak Foucault?
Really gotta do something with “chipocalypse now”
September 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Really gotta do something with “chipocalypse now”
Attn @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social just fyi
May 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Attn @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social just fyi
A legit funny headline, then it makes you cry, then it's funny again, then it makes you cry again
May 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
A legit funny headline, then it makes you cry, then it's funny again, then it makes you cry again
Eleven months before, in case the D-Day invasion failed, he wrote:
"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available...
"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available...
May 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Eleven months before, in case the D-Day invasion failed, he wrote:
"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available...
"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available...
Ike on VE day. Every word here is dense with significance--including the use of passive voice. Compare with his alt-DDay message (in next note):
"The mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945."
"The mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945."
May 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Ike on VE day. Every word here is dense with significance--including the use of passive voice. Compare with his alt-DDay message (in next note):
"The mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945."
"The mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945."
It must happen, please make it happen
May 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It must happen, please make it happen
Headlines like this are an abomination, just say no
May 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Headlines like this are an abomination, just say no
It'll be v interesting to follow the discussion @ this book. I know Macedo a bit, always respect him, learn from him. I'll get the book & read it. I suspect a lot of people in academia will lose their minds about it. I hope that's not true. We need open discussions of this.
March 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It'll be v interesting to follow the discussion @ this book. I know Macedo a bit, always respect him, learn from him. I'll get the book & read it. I suspect a lot of people in academia will lose their minds about it. I hope that's not true. We need open discussions of this.
"I believe I have the right qualifications for this position"
February 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
"I believe I have the right qualifications for this position"
Still love these Hackett translations from the 90s, if only for their covers
December 24, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Still love these Hackett translations from the 90s, if only for their covers
Apropos of nothing, nothing of all, thinking about this W.H. Auden poem "Epitaph on a Tyrant" this evening
November 22, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Apropos of nothing, nothing of all, thinking about this W.H. Auden poem "Epitaph on a Tyrant" this evening
Very much so. And NB: EH Gombrich, in his “Reflections on Homo Ludens by J. Huizinga,” pp. 138-63 in "Tributes: Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition," suggests that Huizinga was provoked in writing Homo Ludens by Carl Schmitt
November 3, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Very much so. And NB: EH Gombrich, in his “Reflections on Homo Ludens by J. Huizinga,” pp. 138-63 in "Tributes: Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition," suggests that Huizinga was provoked in writing Homo Ludens by Carl Schmitt
